WTF Florida

I lived in Pensacola and Cape Coral and just moved back up to the midwest. I-75 was my daily nightmare. Trust me, I know the misery.

With the huge influx of population, it’s never going to improve, because everything they’re building is to support consumption by the people. Your dissatisfaction with all of it is only going to worsen. It’s why I left.

I moved to FL, with hopes of landing in a place like my favorite FL town, Dunnellon. However, Ocala is swallowing it up and there just isn’t the job opportunities to support living in small towns. Living in more populated areas the balance was even more difficult. When looking up here, I can buy a home for less than my annual income. Down there, after Ian, a home became 5X-6X my annual income. It no longer made sense to fight for living in FL.

I strongly disagree with your self-serving statement of DeSantis. If what you say were actually true, people across this country wouldn’t be moving to his state and rallying behind him. If it were true, Florida would be like Illinois, where everyone knows of the corruption and are fleeing the place. This state is drying up.

 

Can you elaborate on what DeSantis has done for his own personal gain so I can understand please?

 

My Grandparents had bought a plot in a retirement travel trailer and boating community on Long Key in Florida in 1969. He retired from TWA in 1973 and spent the winters there until he died in ‘90. My dad finally sold it off 10 years ago after my uncle and grandmother passed away because it was too far away and no longer being used by us. That place was old folks central and covered with aluminum trailers back when I was a kid.
Jimmy Buffet’s 1973 album A1A was written all about it.

 

Was it Long Boat Key near Sarasota where your Grandparents were? Growing up we went to Siesta Key twice a year which was very near Long Boat Key and it was full of old people in the 70’s, but it was a great place to vacation then. I delivered a load down there a few years ago and I didn’t get the same feeling I did of the place when I was a kid. Recently we vacationed on St. George’s Island in the panhandle and it was largely undeveloped and kind of similar to Siesta Key in the 70’s.

 

It is Outdoor Resorts on Long Key in Monroe Co. The last time we went and this was a few years after the sale was for this mans funeral. He was my grand fathers best “retirement” across the water alley neighbor, friend and fishing buddy. He was like another grandfather to me back then. This man would go out 20-50 miles in a 22’ Mako before sun rise and come back after sun down every day the weather was good. He was only 6 years younger then my grand father.
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I don’t think they ask your occupation at the door. They don’t want big trucks on their property, but more and more businesses theses days are the same. We really only have other truck drivers to blame for this and I’m sure some people reading this have themselves to blame.

 

But that Buc-ee's will generate A LOT of sales and property tax revenue.