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Originally Posted by j_vermilya
...Apartments being added both in and out of the villages will add to these numbers as well. No more town squares are being added...yes, they are adding some rec centers and other amenities in the south, but it will be quite some time before there will be a sufficient amount, if ever. (Comments like, then move, or growth is inevitable" don't help by the way). Absolutely, there are many positives about living here. But it will not be the same. Frankly, we are leaning towards moving because of these changes.
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So when you moved to TV were you under impression you were last person to buy a home and the developer was going retire and TV would stay exactly the same. People who move to Florida always seem to think it's going to stay the same and not grow or get any bigger. When Walt Disney bought all that land in Orlando, it was small town about the size of Ocala is now, and had a military base and the Navy conducted their basic training there.
I grew up in St. Petersburg, we didn't have interstate through town until the end of the 70s, everywhere you went you traveled by surface streets. This is how downtown looked in 1965, the tallest building was a 7 story hotel built in the 20s.
This is downtown St. Petersburg now, and I can't begin to tell the difference in Miami then and now. You could drive on Hwy 19 from St. Petersburg to Clearwater 15 miles and not see a building. Today Hwy 19 is non-stop big box stores, malls, restaurants, fast food, all the way for 60 miles to Spring Hill.