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In reply to the discussion: This will get lost in the GD thread. I just have a hard time and need to rant over this Ian bullshit [View all]Warpy
(111,164 posts)and the trouble with most of those folks is they got sold a false image of what the place is like by some motormouthed salesman at some point who talked on and on about the herbal romance of watching the moon rise or set over water, never mind most people get used to it and don't notice it at all after the first few months.
Florida is already risky in late summer and early fall. It's going to get a lot riskier as climate change proceeds, malaria and dengue are moving north, long with lesser known but no less nasty diseases.
Florida might have survived the cowboys, the orange groves, and a train taking rich people down to Miami. It won't survive those miles and miles and miles of suburban tract houses or that largely unbroken line of high rises that keeps people who live in those houses away from the beaches.
I was born there but left when I was still a baby. My parents took me there several times when I was growing up, so I've seen the changes over time, from mostly agriculture with a few resorts here and there to the mass marketed mess it is today. My parents retired there. I didn't see the attraction, so I'm living in the high desert, grateful I don't have to go back now that they're gone.
I don't think I could take it.