The point is that Chassidim are stuck in the same five communities we've been in since the war, because ships happen to have arrived in NYC. If only they would have arrived somewhere pleasant instead...
It's time to move past the stuck mentality and choose to create communities in places we would actually enjoy living in.
That's one of the big questions I have about the Tampa plan - with the entirety of the United States open to you, why choose a place that has unpleasant weather and is just so... boring? (And yes, I know that AZ is a lot hotter. But that's been discussed to death - 110 in AZ is a lot more pleasant than 90 in FL.)
I understood the point, my point was that was no Ellis Island after WWII and Arizona is landlocked.
In any case in 1950s we needed power in numbers to create infrastructure and support eachother, it’s a different world today and we don’t need that to the same extent. We also have the luxury of finding/creating job opportunities anywhere. Your average Jewish immigrant to NYC in 1945-1955 didn’t arrive with that mindset.