[SteveZ]

Wildwood is a great place, and I wouldn't be here in TV if Wildwood wasn't there.

I've lived in Florida pushing 3 decades (except for this 4-year experience in DC), residing in a little corner of Seminole County called Chuluota (we believe it means "we have no gas station, no traffic lights, and the post office is only open part-time"). Smaller towns/cities beat the major metropoli all the time in neighborliness, attitude and service.

Don't get me wrong, TV is pretty good, but it seems to foster an air that you can get everything you need in TV, and that outside of TV is a place where you won't fit in. So, while others wait in a 10 person line to get a haircut at LSL, I stroll into a small barber shop in Wildwood, rarely a wait at all, and enjoy good conversation and no rush.

The best hardware store in the area is the Ace in Wildwood, same goes for the little barber shop next to the Driver license office. The folk at the Sumter County tag office are the friendliest I've found in this state. I bring my dogs to a vet who has a down-home attitude and he and his staff actually care about the animals.

I don't kid myself or anyone. I'm a blue-collar guy running in a white-collar rat race. So, I seek out the honest places, where people say things you can believe, and are willing to back up their word with sweat and action. There are no phony airs about Wildwood and its people, and that what really makes it fabulous. I feel safer there than in the best areas of DC, or NY, or Boston, or almost any other of the societal centers.

Enjoy Wildwood for its honesty. Hopefully, what has happened to similar towns around Orlando during its mega-expansion (i.e., Winter Springs, Oviedo, Clermont, and unfortunately Chuluota), namely losing their personality and turning into yuppyvilles, won't happen here.