Consider it the latest twist in the battle of New York versus Florida.

You’ve got the weather: a cold, snowy winter vs. hurricanes and the heat. The creatures: subway rats vs. swamp alligators. The pies: pizza vs. key lime. And now, the president’s primary residence: Trump Tower vs. Mar-a-Lago.

The news that President Trump, a lifelong New Yorker, had quietly changed his primary residence from Manhattan to Palm Beach, Fla., caught many by surprise. But the move also evokes the longstanding, at times rivalrous relationship between the Empire and Sunshine States.

New York has been losing thousands of residents each year, with many of them going to Florida. The United States Census Bureau’s 2017 American Community Survey, which estimated the number of people who moved states within the prior year, found that Florida gained the most new residents of any state, with the biggest group of expats coming from New York. Walk around some parts of South Florida, and you’ll often hear New York accents, even from people who haven’t lived up north in decades.