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Old 07-11-2008, 05:14 PM
 
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Thinking of moving to Florida? Check out the current online issue of Time Magazine and locate the article on Florida. Good grief!!!!!
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Old 07-11-2008, 08:02 PM
 
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Here' s the link...

Is Florida the Sunset State? - TIME

Geeze!! This author certainly sees his glass half-empty!
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Old 07-11-2008, 08:03 PM
 
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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Old 07-11-2008, 08:14 PM
 
Location: New York City
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Wow! That was a really good article. Nothing we didn't know already, but good none the less. I think it painted a clear picture of South Florida, but luckily, I don't think most of that applies to us. No... we are a whole nother beast.

Here is the link for anyone else who needed it:
Is Florida the Sunset State? - TIME
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Old 07-11-2008, 09:37 PM
 
Location: Charlotte, NC, USA
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Yes, that was a good article, a nice little history lesson about where modern Florida came from.

I was surprised to find out that south Florida's per capita water use is 50% above the national average. Florida's attitude about resource consumption needs to change.

Florida needs to bite the expensive bullet and build some desalinazation plants, improve the schools, and get some general infrastructure improvements off the ground. It needs to think about the future more than it does, and not have such a cheap attitude.

South Florida's problems do impact north Florida.
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Old 07-11-2008, 10:01 PM
 
Location: NE Florida
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I agree it's a good piece and there is some stuff for Floridians to be concerned about although the writer is trying too hard to be sensationalistic IMO. I believe he is writing from a Miami perspective and painting the whole of Florida with the same brush. Luckily we are somewhat of a different market from Miami or Orlando and while we too are hurting from the housing downturn, it's not half as bad as, for example, South Florida, Tampa, St. Pete.
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Old 07-11-2008, 10:07 PM
 
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I was surprised to find out that south Florida's per capita water use is 50% above the national average. Florida's attitude about resource consumption needs to change.
You're telling me. I've never seen such disregard for water conservation until I came here. The entire state is HOOKED on water to keep those lawns looking their greenest in this heat (not to mention all the other chemicals that go into that). Cause you know, can't have your neighbor's lawn being greener than yours. Oh hell no.

But seriously, I know its sunny Florida & a great place to be into that stuff year round, which is fine. But many many people take it too far & it ends up becoming a competition. I've even seen "yard of the month" signs in some neighborhoods around here. *pukes*
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Old 07-12-2008, 12:22 PM
 
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Wow! That was a really good article. Nothing we didn't know already, but good none the less. I think it painted a clear picture of South Florida, but luckily, I don't think most of that applies to us. No... we are a whole nother beast.

Here is the link for anyone else who needed it:
Is Florida the Sunset State? - TIME

I agree completely! I really like this line:

"Florida was once a swampy rural backwater, the poorest and emptiest state in the South. But in the 20th century, air-conditioning, bug spray and the miracle of water control helped transform it into a migration destination for the restless masses of Brooklyn and Cleveland, Havana and Port-au-Prince. Florida developed its own ventricle at the heart of the American Dream--not only as an affordable playground and comfortable retirement home with no income tax but also as a state of escape and opportunity, a Magic Kingdom for tourists, a Fountain of Youth for seniors, a Cape Canaveral for Northerners looking to launch their second acts. Even the soggy Everglades, once considered a God-forsaken hellhole, became a national treasure."

It is so true!
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Old 07-12-2008, 03:53 PM
 
Location: Jax
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Putting the housing market stories aside (those were all in South Florida, for the most part), I agree with much of what the author wrote.

Every day here in Jax/Jax area, a little more environmental damage is done . Builders are a common culprit. They'll pay the fines for damaging the river, it's the cheaper choice. They'll lie about their boundaries, it's easy to sway the county to carve out a little protected land for them later (builder to county: "you do want that road I promised you, don't you?!" ).

The water scares are very real. It's a problem here too. Local aquifers are drying up (look at the receding lake lines on the spring fed lakes ). Bad choices on the part of Georgia to our north have crept salination into the aquifers and it's headed our way. Orlando wants to drain the Saint Johns River.

It's all connected and we better start caring soon .

Restoring part of the Everglades is a big step in the right direction. The Everglades are a natural hurricane barrier and we'll be glad when it's back in balance.
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Old 07-13-2008, 12:17 PM
 
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I think of North Florida as the twilight zone. Did they film any of those episodes on location in Jacksonville?
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