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Old 05-18-2014, 06:00 PM
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Isn't that the normal reaction. People move in, and then they want all construction to stop and then no one else to move in after them.

My parents moved to Florida in 1959. When I got my first driver's license in 1966 they didn't even have interstate highways in Florida. When I was in college in 1969 Disney employees came to our school looking to hire new graduates for the soon to open amusement park in Orlando.

I use to have to drive to Savannah, Ga few times a year. In Georgia I would have to get off Hwy 301 and onto Hwy 17 near Brunswick. That was a single 2 lane road that you had to share with every tractor trailer, bus and every other car headed north and south along the coast. Can you imagine I-95 didn't even open in Georgia until 1973. I'm sure someone probably said, let's not build anymore in Florida, the roads are just too congested.