On 7/31/13 5:23 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 16:51:52 -0400, iBoaterer
wrote:

I don't think growth is a good thing but nobody listens to me
The gated community thing came here from rich people coming down from
up north.
They say they are coming here to "get away from it all", then they
bring it "all" with them.
These are homogeneous communities of like thinking 50 and 60
somethings coming here with a pocket full of cash they made up there.
The politicians can't cash in on it fast enough.
Our impact fees are a lot bigger than that but it doesn't mean much in
the price of a half million dollar house. Their HOA fees are more than
that every year. Some of these places also expect you to spend almost
that much at the country club and will bill you whether you do or not.
At the club my wife manages the minimum is $500 a month and they are
the cheap seats compared to some around here.

I am real happy that most of this goes on East of US41. West of me is
a wildlife/aquatic preserve for miles. I can avoid 99% of the clutter
in my daily travels. In the boat, we can poke around in the mangroves
for hours and not see more than a small fishing boat now and then
plugging the edges for red fish.

These are the people I volunteer with

http://www.dep.state.fl.us/coastal/sites/estero/

How can you stop growth if the U.S. population is growing so fast?

Especially when they all want to move here ... in spite of Harry
warning them how bad it sucks here.
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I found a lot to like in NE Florida, in terms of weather, the beaches,
boating, fishing, et cetera. I didn't like the overly religious,
close-minded nature of the area, and the ultra-conservative politics.

I like SE Florida, the cosmopolitan Cuban and Carib influence and
people, and the Keys, but I find the heat and humidity there
intolerable in the late spring and most of the summer. We'll be back
there for a couple of weeks, probably in February or March, when the
warmth is most appreciated by us near-Yankees.

I liked Tallahassee. I've only been in your part of Florida a couple of
times and for whatever reasons, I felt as if I were, atmospherically, at
least, in a swamp. But I liked the shoreline.