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Originally Posted by GizmoWhiskers
As a kid I grew up in CT. Spent a couple years in the PI. Moved to FL. Been here since 1987. It"s fair to say now that I'm from FL. I struggle with that. I both love and hate FL.
Everything you said makes total sense to me. I get you. Your cemetery comment, right... To each their own on final resting places but for sure it baffled me not to see them back in 1987 and here in T V not to have them yeah, really a remarkable thing. Your comments chime for me.
Rolling hills, windy roads, tall trees, soft grass, no red ants so you can sit in said soft grass. Big rocks, cold cold water out of the tap. The list goes on and on but...
I know what life outside of the bubble is like. While snowbird season results in much higher need for DEFENSIVE three eyes in your head driving, I still would not want to live outside of the bubble anymore. Politically, I thank God I get to live in FL.
Socially, the fun golf carting, the endless things to do here. It is as (or sadly, with so much ridiculous growth potentially was) close to perfect as I've ever seen living in FL.
I do think that T V is getting too big and it doesn't make sense to me as a Central FL dweller all these years. 15 more years of growth... really?? $$$ in the developers generational wealth machine which is sad to me. Eventually it will result in T V just being a sprawl. You can already see the skimping on charm which is unfortunate.
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Thanks for your understanding. And yes rolling hills and grass you can actually sit in with the grass blades carving up your skin so the ants don't have to dig so much for their snack...totally miss blue fescue and rye grass.
Politics though - without getting deep - you express disappointment in the Developers' choices to turn TV into sprawl. And yet you vote for officials who promote that sprawl and support the Developers' choices. That perplexes me. Not just with you, but with everyone who lives here and is disappointed with those choices being made. The citizens can enact change and tell the Developers "no, you won't be expanding to Disneyworld, and that's that." All they have to do is vote for people who will put their zoning feet down and tell them no, and stick with it.
It might cost a few bucks more every year going forward, if the Developer doesn't get his increasingly enormous piece of the pie and the towns don't expand at the rate of 1000 new homes every 6 months. But isn't this supposed to be a senior Heaven on Earth? Isn't that worth a few bucks more every year? If not, then they really shouldn't be complaining.