Florida Is Growing Faster Than You Can Imagine
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- Where did all of Florida's swamp slums go? Are they gone forever??
Now I apologize in advance for what you’re about to see for the next 20 minutes. It isn’t pretty beaches or inspiring nature. It’s not historical landmarks or rural charm.
It’s construction, track homes and endless sprawl. It isn’t pretty nor is it very interesting. But perhaps you staring at all of it will let it sink in just how fast the state of Florida is growing today.
It’s everywhere in this state. And to see the most of it, there’s no better place to go than an area you might not have even heard of before.
Right now, we’re in Polk County. This county isn’t well known outside of central Florida, but it’s become the bullseye for all the latest growth in this state. It’s somewhat wedged between Orlando's sprawl and Tampa’s quickly growing metro area. One day it’ll likely merge into both - and there won’t be any rural landscape from the Gulf to the Atlantic.
In the last five years, Polk County became the fastest-growing county in Florida, and the 7th fastest-growing county in the United States.
Every day, more than 1,000 people move to Florida. If this keeps up, Florida might become like most other places that get ruined by new people. And that wouldn’t be good, mister.
We’ll drive around Polk County and the surrounding areas of central Florida and look at all the growth. I’ll talk about how fast things are growing, and what this all means for Florida’s future. And, then, we’ll talk to someone who lives here to get her perspective.
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Hi Nick it's your buddy Diamond Dave, 🌴🌊🌀🌀🌀⛱️🏖️🌅🌴 In my humble opinion , overpriced overrated the children are under educated, you can have fun in the 🌞 sun 🌴 but when that's done what else do you have to do except go to work in a restaurant part-time during season for minimum wage, they don't call it Hurricane Alley for nothing that's why I moved I got tired of starting over, after being wiped out by hurricanes and tropical storms and floods and in Florida when it rains it floods ‼️
ya no that girl is 100% correct. this is not the place to be. 30% of the homes are empty 10 of 12 month of the year. the pay is trash and everything is over priced. im a 34 year old programmer and i have rented all my life. here. this place is not a fun place to live. drug addicts and crime , sink holes traffic , bad infrastructure . hurricanes and tornadoes. the heat is brutal this place is not the green grass your looking for its a old people trap. the hoas , golf courses, gated communities , 55+ areas. and you get no land, bad neighbors and rising land and insurance costs pushing you out once you have no more retirement money left. i live on the side of an old cuban couples house they cant get rid of me because they will lose their house. and i cant afford one of my own. and i make 65k a year. i had peanut butter a jelly for dinner and lunch. and it just keeps getting worse. i have been mugged this is not your dream land people. and my god the electricity bills are out of this world. because FPL cant keep up with everything. i have lived in multiple locations in florida. vacation and get the heck out while you can. unless you got loads of cash. than do wtf you want.
As a 22 year old Floridian, I'm starting to get really sick of seeing all the extensive growth on both sides of the coast, and now even regions in central Florida outside of Orlando are becoming just like that, especially Polk and Lake Counties. Back as recently as 2007 the Palm Bay/Melbourne area used to just be a small area and now it's becoming like everything else along the Atlantic coast. Where I live in Palm Bay, there's houses, apartments, and subdivisions being built all over, and our grid pattern isn't going to handle all the incoming traffic in the next couple year's. The States wildlife and nature has been sucked out for money and corrupt politicians.
I couldn’t agree more! The natural beauty of the forests, parks, lakes, and shorelines have been replaced with cookie cutter subdivisions and strip mall shopping complexes. I feel like we’ve become the land of Publix Strip malls and mass produced housing
What are your thoughts on making cities more bike and pedestrian friendly?
Same thing is happening here in Arizona 20 years ago this was a beautiful place and now it’s just a mini soon to be California
@@jirehla-ab1671 I will always be in favor of that. There's new towns in Europe now that don't even have cars in them. Several Florida cities are especially bad at pedestrian planning and we need to invest more money into building more sidewalks for people.
@@chinglee100 I've never been out to Arizona but I've read a lot of stories and seen a lot of pictures and it's shocking how many people live out there, especially because from Tucson to Vegas there isn't enough water or resources to support all those people.
This is spot on . I've lived here over 30 years. I lived in the old Florida. I worked with good people.. Its turned to crap. Now as a retiree . I can't find anywhere in this state to downsize to. The 55 plus communities are out of their mind with pricing HOA fees and now taxes are doubling. She is right . I used to see eagles , deer and bears. Now they are dissapearing quickly. The environment is being destoyed..
Same here in SE Marion County ! Moved here from South Florida back in 2009. Now, the "urban sprawl" is creeping toward us like a giant slug. Just saw an orange grove get bulldozed & burned, to make way for another housing development. Trees were mature & producing fruit - someone just offered more $$$ to the owner. Makes you wonder WHAT we'll EAT in the future - houses only produce garbage & sh*t !
Sad and true I see turtles and a Bob cat as road kill, all cars driving like they’re at the Indy 500
@@dahe8883 Really I see it in both states and Florida is purple state, politicians on both sides cater to big business and greed if you don’t know that you’re incredibly naive
I live in Florida too and have noticed the eradication of nature over the years.
Now to Da He's point. Why don't republicans respect nature? I don't understand why everything is about money
@@dahe8883 I don't think it matters, both parties are corporatists, they are not looking out for the average person. It will probably be Desantis against Christ. Christ was a republican, then independent, now a Democrat. When he was in office before he tried to privatize the water.
As someone who grew up outside of Tampa when I left in 2015 for the army and came back in 2018 my mind was blown. Even within that time spawn I witnessed gentrification on a scale I would have never imagined. Sat in on a county meeting out of pure curiosity and was astonished by the lack of knowledge and acceptance of defeat the engineers had when talking about the infrastructure. I’m moving out around Christmas to a place I found out of state that gives me the same feel and is years behind what is going on here. Kinda beat a dead horse but Florida is a trap.
Additionally, if you are a transplant fleeing your state because of things that you voted for that ran the state into the ground, maybe don’t come to Florida and vote the same laws. I’ve seen tons of people now repeat the same voting mistakes they’ve ran from in their past states.
That attitude ruined my state of Vermont which believe it or not used to be a Republican state and we got an influx of New Yorkers coming to our state running for office, Sanders and Dean are not from Vermont it started in the the 70’s maybe earlier
Don’t worry about that. I may be a undesirable New Yorker but I moved here to be with other Republicans.
@@jelambertson I’ll be out of the state by November. Good luck my friend there’s a lot of good left in the state but real soon you guys will have to fight for some changes.
I grew up TX all my life but lived in Tampa between 2014 - 2021 right after graduating high school. I had to come back to my home state because of the lack of affordable places to buy or rent. It was already a bit difficult enough when I first moved there! But I do miss FL everyday. I remember telling people I was moving to Tampa once I graduated and got weird looks, like “what Tampa? It’s for old, retired people. Move to Orlando or Miami.” Now it’s the hottest market and I hate it, it’s become the Austin TX of FL.
@@richard2174 yeah Tampa is heavily gentrified and packed. I think it’s crazy how high crime areas now have 2500$ a month studio apartments in them now.
I’m a 63 year old native Floridian who moved out over 25 years ago. Everything you’re talking about happened YEARS ago. I remember as a kid when Florida had less than 6 million people and now it has nearly 23 million. Anyone who isn’t aware of how much Florida has grown in the last 50 years must have been a sleep.
Seriously. Up in Jacksonville, a 15-minute drive East to the beach from our n'hood was nothing except trees. Now, it's no less than 40 minutes of seemingly endless traffic lights, cookie cutter subdivisions (the newest of which always has to be BIGGER and BETTER than the last), and big box-type nothing special shops. Trust us, transplants, the grass is NOT greener over here!
@@pipdippitydoooo1158 I know that when they start strip malls on Hwy 471 & Richloam, it's completely over.
Population growth in a state like Florida is inevitable what do you think would happen as time passes did you think people were going to just disappear?
@@dahe8883 Much slower growing: Oklahoma!
@@juleswins3 Move the Florida 1972 when I was 21 Central Florida Orlando now I live in Dylan I wish these people from New York and New Jersey and California go back to where they came from where do they experience a few hurricanes or August July and September weather we don't want you here if you're driving the prices up I had to spend $270 to buy my daughter a townhouse 28 years old she'll never be able to afford these houses here there's all you damn people from the North I'm originally from Connecticut but consider myself a Floridian after 50 years We don't give a damn high dirt up North
Basically in Florida, if you have no family inheritance and make an average income, it's either be A.) be a debt slave for 30+ years for a mortgage or B.) give all your income to a landlord and have only a little bit to save for your future med bills. Homelessness will increase.
Well said
I thought it happens in all states not just Florida.
@@aachan1804 It does, it's just amplified in Florida because most of the wages are low and the housing is jacked up high.
@austin smith Yeah me too. I moved back with family just to save cash.
Yeah but the heat keeps the homeless down
Asking any young adult about the place they live regardless of what state you live in is asking for pessimism. I grew up in Florida, moved out, lived in some blue states, and now I'm back in Florida. It's fine better than most places i've lived, but i'm established and not tryign to start out in life either.
Nick Travels & Never states what Destroys a Great State. SURE Isn't A RED State . Hold On In (FL). We are trying in (TX). But the Blue Transplants seek to Destroy
I am German. I have been to the US for a couple of times and I am interested in what's going on there. It looks worse and worse every year.
@@CordeliaWagner yes. Thanks to liberals and demokkkrats.
Yes so true and all these young people here seem to share the same opinion.
@@CordeliaWagner I live in the US. It IS getting worse every year.
I live in Orlando. Have been since 2001. I can see first hand that the city and state for the matter is growing at a MASSIVE rate. Everyone is moving down here making everything expensive af. Florida is very unaffordable to live in unfortunately. We’ve become what we didn’t want to be (California and New York)
You've never been to california 😅 shush boy
@@diabolivirtusen-tavares-ea4645 The amount of money us Floridians are getting paid vs Cost of living makes Florida JUST as unaffordable as California. Your looking at JUST the cost of living. Here in Florida our minimum wage (as of rn because its raising $1 an hr every yr until 2026) is $12 an hr. Can you afford a $1,500-$2000 apartment on a $12 an hour wage???? 🤨🤨🤨 I’ll wait…
I could only live in motels when I was last in FL. That gets expensive but it gives a rough idea on how bad FL has gotten. I had to migrate west to live outside in the more suitable climates. Then I won't pay nothing for rent.
The rent or mortgage is intentionally high it's ment to gain the pensions of the snow birds or northerners. The jobs don't pay nearly enough to afford a place for a local single adult . They know this already.
People from NY and California don't get it our wage never match the cost living in Florida. Parts of Florida like South Florida, Orlando, Tampa Naples you can't afford to live in those places with our minimum wage which was 7.25 until couple of years ago.
I'm a 60 year old Florida native and none of this is new to Florida or any desirable place to live. People want to be free, safe and peaceful. When you live at the mercy of an ocean different things begin to matter. Not everyone has what it takes to thrive here and even fewer have what it takes to appreciate what brought them here. People will come and go from Florida as it is a great leveler of the human psyche but no one leaves untouched one way or the other😎
I agree, I am 61 and love it in Florida, and I have lived here MOST of my life off and on, I always came back!
Yes same. Many many hurricane’s.
My family goes back 6 generations here in FL and in the same county, I live on 10 acres with a modest house I had built, I've worked in construction all my life as well as all my family members, but, I have become a stranger in my own little town, I now have to sit through 3 light changes just to make a left turn too go to work, its probably an every day no big deal thing for most, but I grew up on the land where I live now, as kids we could play in the road all day and maybe see 7 cars pass, and we knew who the were, there is a 100 acre farm across from me, and in the summer they grew watermelons ,and us kids would sneak over the fence and grab the biggest melon we could find and hurry to the woods to feast upon our prize, yes we got caught, but since we only took one melon the farmer was ok with it and told us kids that we could buy melons from him 2 for a dollar, so that's what we did from then on, anyway , the trailer park not to far away that once held good retirees, now holds a hodgepodge of riff raff ,meth heads, meth labs, and so on, it's not the same place anymore, the place I love is no more,I guess I'm gonna sell out and head for the mountains, peace and harmony is what I'm after, wish me luck.
Facts
Very true
I live in Central Florida and I’ve literally driven on those exact roads you have shown in the video (so many times). I am so accustomed to this type of scenery I never even really processed the fact that endless development and neighborhoods isn’t really “good” or “normal”. Yeah…it’s pretty sad. I’m only 23 and even I can notice the massive difference in population over the years. When my parents moved to the area in 1992, they took videos showing the roads in the suburbs of Orlando and there was literally nothing there. Now it looks like a completely different city. And even in the past few years there has been such a massive uptick in traffic where I live! It sucks. I see way too many New York and Pennsylvania license plates. As long as the state keeps improving infrastructure to handle the influx of new people (which they won’t…), I would be somewhat okay with it. I just hope everybody moving in doesn’t turn the state into New York or California 2.0! 😭
They will try.
@@lindaschultz7900 Missouri. That is a state in which my 6 years there, it was mild winter, squelching summer. Not expensive. Cheap homes, cheap everything, really.
I live in Pinellas. Pinellas is the future for Florida. I drove around Apopka for the first time a year ago and I was shocked of how beautiful it looks over there. The grass is a bright spring green color. Seeing the rolling hills driving thru the highway is astonishing. There needs to be some regulation on how much land can be developed. Can't have the whole state looking like concrete right? Governor needs to do something
It just shows you , conservatives ruin everywhere they go more than liberals do. Because who's the bulk of all those people? Surely not NPR listeners.
@@lindaschultz7900 I'd move to North Carolina with you in a heartbeat. I've been in Florida for 20 years too long. Not of my own choosing but trying to finish up a career here and will eventually be back in my home state of NC. You'd love it there. Just don't go to the bigger cities. Stay away from them and their surrounding areas. Too much craziness and crime. What areas in NC are you looking for? Just do your research and visit an area first.
Everybody likes to keep Florida the way it was, the way it was when they bought a home here. Not thinking that they, too, were once un-wanted. I wonder if the Seminoles might have a comment or two about all the newbies.
I live in Portland and that argument echos in every dive bar in town. Its unfortunate when you find a perfect place and dont make the $ to keep up with other people finding it too. At least we have some rent control...
I'm part Seminole and really dont care. Live in Oklahoma.
@@sailingaeolus Well, obviously, if you moved - you cared. You left.
@@tomifost Supposed to be beautiful there....
@@MrModel--CAPTURED-ON-FILM lol. Ever hear of "the trail of tears?". Look it up. We left alright, my ancestors that is.
Kentucky is heaven, I’m from miami and lived in Orlando and miami my first 16 years. Thank god I escaped to Kentucky, I have a great wife and daughter and great job and after traveling all over the United States for work and coming home to Kentucky I thank God that I found this place and the people that are here…
As a Native born Floridian me and my girlfriend just moved out the final straw was the deforestation all around north Orlando. IT SUCKS the weather sucks the New Yorkers moving there SUCK, wages suck, angry bitter people and moronic drivers. Beaches are always crowded and its turning into a concrete jungle everywhere. Never will return.
Agree with you about the New Yorkers.
Cry me a river
What’s with the NY hate? It’s not just NY. NJ, CT, MA, CA, TX
Bro this guy ain’t been to the Keys!
Sounds like Coastal Costa Rica and the majority are coming from the USA so I guess it’s just replicating what these people did in their own country
I have been a Florida resident since 1979 and a Polk County resident since 2004. This video is accurate!!!
Maybe impose citizenship tests and immigration controls so you can maintain your way of life. Shame when people show up and don't respect your situation, culture, laws, get in front of you at StarBucks. And most of these people are foriegners from other states, Go back HOME. Lol. We don't want you here. Lol. No one sees the deep irony here right. lol
At least you have Sheriff Grady Judd.
@@kire115 why do you Grady Judd fans keep saying that like it someone tips the scales of all the cons? Last I checked he has no bearing on my my rent, grocery bill and overall quality of life. Yeah, he is a decent Sheriff but he isn't Jesus.
@@jiho1988 I live in the city/county of Denver, CO, and he would make a big difference in a place like this
Tim I live n d old miami n 75/ 77 just couldn't believe how different it is!! Always luv flordia!!
My grandparents moved to Boynton Beach in 1969 and it was a sleepy little town and in the summer you could walk to the beach and be the only ones there. I was lucky as a kid to have enjoyed the "old Florida".
I “ ustacould” could grab a towel and sunglasses, radio and a Coke and FLOOR IT and speed off to the beach! Now it takes an hour to get to that beach. Oh well I just go to the beach that’s closer I really just miss no traffic!!!
@@VelveteenRabbit77 I laughed at your ustacould, my son makes fun of me when I say it. I am a native Floridian and been in Florida for 65 years. I remember going to the beach like that when I was younger. I have not been to the beach in years.
@@valeriefuller5465 ts just too hard to haul a chair and such! Been here since segregation started! I miss “old” Florida.
It's not just "old Florida"--it's "Old America"--it's either generic bs neighborhoods or Detroit-style falling down slums. We need a middle place.
A lot of interesting comments: I have lived in Florida off and on for 50 years. Real estate developers/speculators are ruining this state. Then there is the state legislature and governor that think only of money to be made. The state is STRONGLY promoting this growth by building expressways to new developments. In my area, the state is building a toll road into a very rural area because landowners want to capitalize on their holding. The road is nearing completion (for now) and will dump a lot more traffic at a narrow (it's even posted by the state) 2 lane bridge. No plans for a new bridge AFAIK.
In my town of a few thousand, a developer wants to sell/build a couple of hundred homes. The current worry is impact on traffic...apparently little/no thought given to utilities, water, sewage, schools, but businesses welcome the chance to serve more people. What they don't realize is that this is a vicious cycle. On the edge of this town a retirement/RV park sprang up during the pandemic. It was recently announced that it is expanding, nearly doubling in size to just over 735 spaces. This is NOT a storage lot, but these lots will function as a trailer park for slightly downsized homes. Again, more people putting strain on limited resources.
Florida still has a lot of empty spaces, but WATER is in limited supply here. No one involved in this extensive building seems to care about the environmental damage, if nothing else, that is occurring because of unplanned and unlimited development.
The problem with the growth rate of Florida suburbs is that there doesn’t seem to be any money toward making it a good suburb. Just houses. No walk lanes or bikes lanes or nearby store planning for accessibility. Just houses and car dependent streets to get anywhere, I feel sorry for the older folks or walkers out there
Not too many parks for kids either.
Polk County has the most popular Sheriff Judd, so everyone wants to go there.
Good ole Grady!!
We got Wayne Ivey here in Brevard hes the man too
I love watching videos of Florida fossil finds!! I hunt shark teeth every time I visit!
Yeah the county with all the crackheads methheads and thugs. Sign me up.
Love Sheriff Judd! If DeSantis runs for President, would love to see Grady Judd run for Florida Governor.
That girl definitely has a pessimistic attitude. I would hate to have that much negativity in my life. I'm a life long resident of Florida and still love it!
I live north of Tampa. She lost me when she stated she had to wait in traffic to get to Starbucks. Those that pay $6 or so for a cup of coffee live in a different reality than me. She like many are simply following the current trend to be with the "in crowd". Sounds like a typical left wing nut and would fit in around LA. The tip off is "I do not want to pay to live here". The left wants everyone else to pay their way in life. As far as rent it is going up nationwide as the dems mismanaged covid destroying supply chains then Biden shutting down pipelines and moving to implement the green agenda which has caused everything to go skyhigh. Prices are high as shipping is high and getting supplies for anything is a waiting game with shortages and of course blaming the Russians for what the dems have caused and as the large chains have warned, by the end of the year prices will be much higher with more shortages from food to everything. Shipping costs over the oceans from China and South Asia were from $87 to $137 per day per container when Trump was in office. Today they are from $37,000 to $52,000. We will feel that impact in prices by the end of the year which is why Wal Mart, Kroger, etc, have all warned the public as they are using social conditioning to prepare for the impact coming as you have seen nothing yet. Bought a fried chicken basket from Publix today, $15.99 which I have never in my life seen prices so high already. Buckle up as the dems are going to destroy the economy along with the fossil fuel infrastructure to force us to go green. As the owner of the largest financial consulting company on the planet said, our only hope is a military coup to take back government or for Russia and China to bring the Biden admin to its knees. Social security stops in 2029 per consultant.
she's just telling the truth as far as most old real floridians and some younger floridians are concernd,,
Truth will set u free
Wake up to Reality
Ido me u do u he gone.
As a native Floridian. I miss my woods! They are all gone now, all gated communities. I miss the lighter traffic, now traffic is all a mess. I miss the Owls and the deer, and the wild turkeys, becoming more and more rare these days. I'm a local, this is my home, but I don't know how much longer I can hold on with the housing prices going through the roof. It was nice when people were just visitors, but now they are buying a second and third home and it's empty most of the year. Then you have the Air BnB issue. It's just a party house, they leave their trash, they are noisy, and I don't know who they are. I wanna say...It feels like 20% are used as Air BnB, and that is a huge hit for local culture.
Move to the northern part of the state
More houses being built used to mean lower housing prices. But then large real estate corporations started buying them to rent them out. Some of these corporations are overseas buyers. So the whole idea of making more houses to curb the housing crisis is gone. It’s all developers scamming everyone for a buck. And this is happening in all of the coastal states and any city that has any decent university.
So very true, happening where I live, you will own nothing and be happy
@@greensorrel6860 Yep, all part of the economic forums big plan for us all to be their chattel
Let's face the reality , it's for Airbnb and rental homes . There not made for the living residents.
Lived in Florida from 1982-2006. Could not wait to leave to get away from the sprawl way back then. Takes forever to drive anywhere.
Where'd u move to 🤔
It’s even worse now.
82-2007 for me. I moved to AZ and was immediately making $2/hr more for the same work and housing was cheaper too. Never looked back.
I’ve lived in Florida 12 years and I still like it. My son feels the way this girl does, but he’s a young college student and bored here. I moved from Tampa Bay over to the east side and got out of the crowds for now. I really enjoy seeing all there is to see in the state, but you’re right about the growth destroying the places that are most popular. Miami has always been insane.
Miami is a nightmare! Worse than NYC.
I agree with you. I am old enough to remember when Miami was a beautiful open and fun place to go. I grew up in Fort Lauderdale in the 60's-80's, loved every moment of it. Also lived in the Sarasota are as well. Yes, its all CHANGED because we have a larger population in the US now, that's just life. But I still love Florida and the majority of people despite the growth, I am happy to share what makes Florida GREAT.
I’m a land surveyor, i deal with residential/homebuilding and development of these newer neighborhoods. It’s insane how quickly they pump out these houses, i deal with them from start to end; being thrown all together in less than a year. Quite sad being born here to progressively see it grow at this rate
And zero lot lines they want people to live like animals
@@greensorrel6860 I saw a PBS special on what builders are doing in Florida. There is a vast network of underground water that builders buy cheap and build expensive houses on. Then people from up north get there and buy what they think is their dream home. One elderly couple talked about how their house stared sinking soon after they moved in. They were going bankrupt paying engineers and concrete companies try to save their dream house and it looked like a lost cause. I felt sorry for them.
Your videos and choice of words to express your videos are so on point Nick. Thank you
That girl is like sadness from inside out. I'm proud of being a Floridian, but God I want to leave this place? I don't get it.
I'm not sure I trust a woman whose bangs are not even.
Proud but wanna leave 🤣
Life sort of sucks when your in a state with few good paying jobs and all you see is people with money pouring in and making things worse. I can understand.
she seems to be a lib. Cant have free handouts = life sucks
She seems to love the old Florida and is proud of that.
Born and raised in Orlando and I'm only 31 years old. I've seen this place go from having under a million people to what it is now. And there are times when I drive and I may have to go to a different side of town. And I'm just absolutely in shock at how much is there compared to when I last came. Everywhere you turn apartments, houses, schools everywhere and it's been like this. So yeah. Especially Central Florida
I lived in South Florida in the entire 80s and came back after graduate school in the mid 90s and settled into west palm in 2001. I’m offended at the alarming growth brought on my New Yorkers and Californian’s moving in and buying places for over $500k when the average salary for Floridians can’t possibly keep up with that level of real estate, leaving average homes vulnerable to investors from other areas just so they can have a vacation home. People live and work here: This is not New York or California. There are no jobs or businesses on that level. Rent for. 2 and 2 in Boynton beach averaged $800 a month in 2001. It is now $2300; without signs of slowing down, and without a significant increase in salary: I wouldn’t mind others moving here, except they are not bringing business with them. This is just a vacation place for them. Or a relatively affordable place compared to overpriced markets. Now we are overpriced and without the proper jobs and income to justify it for working residents.
The people selling there homes for over asking are Floridians.
@@dahe8883 I have money and I’m a Republican. Just bought a house for cash….Most Democrats I know don’t have a pot to piss in…
Then tell the realtor’s to keep there asking prices in “Florida’s price range” and then problem solved 💁♀️.
They choose the prices, not the renter’s 🤦♀️
I worked construction down South for years I lived in Florida Georgia South Carolina pretty much all over that area the last project I worked on was Margaritaville in Hilton Head South Carolina and I can tell you firsthand about the growth in the southern states it's bewildering to put it simply into words you should see how fast these new homes go up! You would also be surprised to know that a lot of these new sites are being built on former swamp land. Years ago these planes were flooded so they could be turned into rice patties. Did you ever wonder where all those big dump trucks full of dirt we're going? Greed is an absolute sickness it's what's destroying America everything that's destroying America leads right back to greed and these people that are building these developments literally on swamp land in Florida are insane! Months after people move in walls are cracking foundations are cracking. I just couldn't believe what people were paying $500 and 600,000 for!
Not too long ago when 500k was a lot for a house. Not it doesn’t get you much in a lot of places
Sadly I can’t afford my beautiful state of Florida anymore. Selling my farm and leaving Florida. It’s too damn expensive and too damn overpopulated. Florida doesn’t have the infrastructure to handle the huge population boom.
florida: third world infrastructure in the continental U.S. not to mention the gridlocked traffic because people keep adding lanes to the highways instead of investing in better city design and public transit.
I’m sorry that you have to sell your farm and leave.
I have relatives in another state with the family farm in several generations and so far they haven’t had to sell but you never know it’s becoming more built up from nearby cities.
@@Notpublic4719 that’s true. ! I agree that Florida should’ve been investing in better city design and public transit. Even though it’s becoming over built it’s easier to have a better city design and public transit from the start then added in much later as in decades later.
@@enjoyslearningandtravel7957 if we built our cities denser and more transit oriented there's a good chance @splitjuiceboxes could've kept his farm. this suburban sprawl is swallowing up so many farms.
So long ☺ good riddance
My hometown is Jensen Beach in Martin county. In my lifetime, Martin has went from a great example of keeping an old Florida feel (State park preservation, 4 story building limit) to every other county in the state. Forests torn down and replaced by Wawas, shitty duplexes, etc. Sad to see that i'll never be able to afford to buy a house in my hometown.
I honestly think that can be said for just about the whole entire east coast of Florida from Jacksonville down to the Florida keys. When I moved to Palm Bay in 2009, the city had just passed over 100,000 people, and as the year's went all the whole south part of Brevard county quickly became a mess of urban sprawl and land development.
I used to live in Indian River from 2001-2008. Although it's one of the slower growing regions along the coast I can definitely see that it's been quickly picking up in Vero Beach along the back roads of highway 60.
i used to live in jenson beach , i liked it, florida is not perfect, but i have lived allover and florida is where i have been happiest, healthiest and most active
People need to stop peddling the myth that us "spreading out" is a good thing. There's too many people living in this country.
Don’t come to citrus county we like the peaceful life
@@alanstramaglia8299 same here, i cant stand over populated overly congested areas
I'm a native of Palm Beach County. I truly loved growing up here. We had small coastal towns and wide open undeveloped areas that led out to the farms out west. I've watched these same woods get torn down one after another for huge housing tracts. I remember the high sand dunes along the coast get leveled and condos built. They hastened the beach erosion by putting up sea walls in front of the condos. I used to love driving up to Central Florida and smell the orange blossoms and look at the rolling hills with orange trees. Since covid hit, it seems growth has spiraled out of control. I recently took a drive up to Central Florida and was saddened to see the hills that once were covered with trees now are covered with large housing tracts. It looks like the uglification of the state. Developers are winning out over growth rules that used to be in place. I have 8 more years to work. I don't recognize my home state anymore. I'm really not sure where I'd want to move to. Climate change will send people out of the state I'm sure. I just am not sure what state I'd go to but I probably will move out of the state.
Born and raised in Fort Lauderdale. Moving out of Florida was the best decision of my life. It's a shithole state loaded with some of the largest ghettos (Florida City, Jacksonville, Opa-Locka, Palatka, Overtown, Tampa) in the entire country. 3rd most dangerous state to live in because of traffic fatalities (most dangerous highways in the entire county: #1 is Miami's Interstate 95 and #3 is Orlando's Interstate 4). Violent crime is insanely bad too (An average of 4 homicides every day). Florida is even worse for forcible rapes: #3 in the country with an insane 7,686 last year (that's only 5,000 less than California -- but California has 40 MILLION PEOPLE..... Florida's rapes per person is the highest in the nation). Dead last for funding public schools -- and you definitely get what you paid for. Florida doesn't plan for anything, so the worst urban sprawl you could imagine. The highest inflation in the country (Tampa). The most expensive rents / home prices with some of the lowest wages around. Homeless people living on every street corner now because of these economics. Traffic jams everywhere because of a lack of highways / lack of planning. Florida is nicer than Mississippi, Louisiana, California and Alabama.... and that's not saying much. Anyone moving into the state beware -- unless you are already a millionaire.... You are most likely going to be living on a street corner.
Major shout out to your opinions. It's a shame how so much has changed to get where Florida is today.
Best comment on this thread!!
I live in Daytona Beach where I-4 intersects with I-95. We have a lot of new warehousing and distribution centers being built. Amazon is building a 5 story fulfillment center near me. Apartment complexes are popping up like weeds everywhere with prices from $1750 to $2250 monthly. A really bad situation is that many older landlords are selling their properties and their renters are being forced out. They are the service industry labor force and this is causing labor shortages. Local businesses can not pay high enough wages to keep them in the new housing reality.
I can't even imagine having to come up with $2000/mo for rent. My *mortgage* on a 3200sq.ft. home is only $1400.
we Floridians do feel sad/upset by the influx and changes
Nick, we've been watching your videos almost everyday for months now and are really enjoying them. Your personality is great. You cheer us up and make us laugh with almost all of your videos. Keep up the good work.
I definitely give her a standing ovation for what she said!! Born in Florida in 1975 and been here ever since (aside when I was in the Army)…too much growth in my state!!
The problem with her is she thinks the liberals will save her, but they're all just communists. There's no winning with the left/right that we have, both suck!
I think I have a pretty good idea where all the resentment is coming from: Old Florida was a pretty chill place to live at one point. I still have great memories from childhood in fact. No, not too many work-class people made much money but, then again, you didn't NEED much money to live here either.
Then the transplants started coming.
Don't get me wrong, they've been coming for years - but not at the rate they been coming here lately. Now the population is rapidly approaching critical mass, and the natives are LITERALLY getting priced the fvck out of their own hometowns. And, if that wasn't bad enough, when they complain about this, the transplants just laugh and say, "well, we're coming anyway, LOL."
Seriously? You come here, overpopulate the region, drive up prices to the point where native Floridians almost can't live here anymore, and all you have to say is "LOL"? And don't get me started on the nimrods who move here and wonder why they can't find New York-style pizza or some other nonsense; or try to force their own political philosophies on everyone (continuing to vote for the same sh!t they were escaping in the first place).
And Florida isn't the only place this is happening: Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina - even Idaho is experiencing this with Californians.
No one is saying that you can't move here. This is supposed to be a free country, after all. But just be mindful of the culture of where you decide to move as well as how you may be affecting the area. Do that, and maybe some of that resentment might go away.
Jim Lee-----well said sir. i agree 100%
One of the best comments on here!💯🚀
Tell your governor then as he keeps openly encouraging more businesses and people to relocate there.
Oh I am a fifth generation Vermonter and this happened decades ago then New Yorkers moved her and thought well this is a small place let me run for office and we got Dean and Sanders largely elected in our transplant heavy biggest county
We've owned a house in Stuart FL for 23 years and have been going there since 1986. Nobody heard of Stuart back then, the way we liked it, but now the word is out. It's still a decent place, but much more crowded, too much traffic, and over priced real estate. It's not what it used to be! 😞
At least you can refinance and make bank
My family bought a condo in Jensen beach ten years ago and seeing how much Stuart and JB have grown in that decade is just insane
@@freefromit2 I love bathtub beach
@@freefromit2 maybe Sebastian is the next stop
Aren't foreigners just the worst lolz. sad face but your not Hitler when you say it.
I grew up in Florida. My work career took me out of the state, but I always planned to come back. I retired here eight years ago on a moderate income. Back then housing was reasonably priced. Now, I could not afford to buy what I have. Our county wants to build affordable housing, but NIMBYism rampant.
Nick, I love your Florida videos. I came to West Palm Beach as a kid in 1983 and I saw the entirety of Palm Beach County blow up with sprawl when I left for Altoona PA in 2007. People don’t want to live here because of the winters but we are surrounded by mountains and nature. The area is actually shrinking in population but there’s enough jobs, the summers are mild, there’s only 3 hot months here. People here take day trips to Pittsburgh, Philly or NY. All of our population growth is in the southeast sector where Philly sprawl is moving northward and westward but the other 3 quarters of the state are small towns surrounded by woods, state parks and game lands. The northern half of the state is practically a nature preserve, people have hunting camps but few live year round. We aren’t far from West Virginia or the Poconos or the Catskills or the Delaware Water Gap area or the NY finger lakes. I’m obviously a huge fan of the rural northeast. Because of mountains and snow, sprawl will never come here
I remember passing a sign along I-4 that referred to “Orlampa.” I guess that is what Polk County is.
Yes. Downtown Olampa to be exact.
Oh that sign is gone now? .. it's a spot right between orlando/tampa, at the fantasy of flight attraction site
@@OhNo_4mor4freaknbiden yea it's gone
That's the Lakeland area
WE LIVE near Ocala, in a semi-rural area. Recently, a long-time orange grove was bulldozed & BURNED, to make room for another residential housing development. Transplanted "Yankees" are fleeing their crumbling Northern cities, and coming here with their bank accounts full of $$$ from selling their homes "Up North". This drives the upward spiral of home prices, so the locals can no longer afford to buy. Like Nick said, we're creating a State of "haves & have nots" - NOT the Florida I grew up in !
I can definitely attest to Florida having the most empty homes. I work for a residential home cleaning company and most of the houses we clean are multi million dollar waterfront homes in gated or double gated neighborhoods that nobody has been in since the last time we cleaned and the owners live in Minnesota or New Jersey or Chicago and only use that house to keep their boat at and stay there for a couple weeks or months a year. There’s one double gated neighborhood specifically where we clean almost 10 homes there and the majority of the homes in the entire neighborhood are part time residents
Where lol looking to get some information for a school project.
She's right!!! I live in Broward County and have been here about 34 years. I have seen the changes, the crime got worse, rents are really expense, there are a lot of homeless people and people asking for food. Food prices are ridiculous. Also the house I bought back in 1992 was 63,000 now they are listed for over 400,000. I have 2 kid in their 20's that are well educated but cannot find work that pays enough to live off of.
You can tell an older neighborhood in Florida versus a newer neighborhood by the trees they leave. Any older neighborhoods there are a lot of trees still left but in the new neighborhoods being built in the recent years, the trees are all torn out and looks like they might as well have built that subdivision in a desert because there’s no trees left. That’s why I love you to the older neighborhoods much better in Florida than the newer ones.
yep, I live in a newer built neighborhood but spend a lot of time in the downtown orlando adjacent neighborhoods and its a night and day difference with the greenery and shade.
Yeah. That’s how The Villages looked in the video the other day. Barely any trees and houses all up against each other. No thanks.
@@lgibs666 if one catches on fire and it’s a bad one, how quickly it should could spread to the other houses since they are so close to each other.
It’s called “rape and scrape.” And yeah, it’s very depressing. Some say I should be happy that my near life-long and old(er) neighborhood is in such demand now. Doesn’t work that way for everybody.
150% agreed with everything she said about FL. Raised in South Florida for 35 years, recently moved to North Florida (ST AUGUSTINE) and can’t wait to move out of FL completely. Looking into NC. Hopefully in a year I will be out of here. 🤪
My grandpa said he read in penthouse mag back in the 70’s that one of the Rockefeller’s said that they wanted to do away with the middle class. He said it wouldn’t happen soon, but over time it will. I feel we are seeing the middle class barely surviving now. It does look like it’s going to be either rich or poor.
I’m glad I watched this video. Plan on moving to Panama City Beach Florida in 3 years. It’s springing up fast and cost of living is going way up. Been looking in southern Alabama where it’s cheaper. I figure if by the time I move and prices go up more in that area then I’ll probably look to relocate in southern Alabama and I can drive 1.5 hours to PCB on the weekends. Much shorter than driving 12.5 hours from where I live now.
LoL PCB is called LA for Lower Alabama. (I've always considered that a compliment:)
@@janakafka4427 the first time I went it felt like home. More so than my home town and I felt so calm and relaxed. It also felt I had been there before. Just went back for the second time a few weeks ago and I felt the same feeling. now my goal is to move there or somewhere close by.
I live in Clermont with my family since 2004 & it’s honestly amaze us till this day how much this city changing in the last few years. Even today driving the back roads of winter garden I was so shock how many more apartments, houses & roads being under construction.
It’s like they building all these homes but where’s the jobs ?? We need more of that
I'm not an American but I always loved USA from all my heart . Looking forward for higher studies there . Been watching Nick videos for years and learned a lot from it . You're making great stuff Nick . Really enjoyed every single video and appreciate your hard work . keep it up !!
I moved to FL in 2016, and I’m sad about all of the growth too. We couldn’t afford living in NYC and I always hated the cold and the crowds. I moved here for the affordability, the nature, and the slower pace. It’s changing too quickly for me.
Im from jersey always hated the cold i want to leave too. too expensive here.
@@pr32000 I’m in nj and it sounds like Florida will become us. I live just outside of Princeton on a few acres, my kids attend a highly rated school district, my house is 4br/3bath, and it’s value is the same as what a lot of these cookie cutter houses in Florida are going for. Yeah, I have high property taxes, but the tax on some homes in Florida are the same, if not more than my friend who lives just north of flemington.
@@katiesays I used to service the areas around Princeton. It’s really expensive out there. It depends what your looking for but your probably talking upper middle class from the areas around Princeton. If your looking for the same in Florida of course it’s gonna be just as pricey.
This is what happens when we latch onto Euclidean zoning as opposed to form-based coding and neglect to encourage and enforce growth management (conservation land trusts and urban growth boundaries). Euclidean zoning does not see the planning of streets/public spaces as integral to zoning...this is a big problem.
So much for the Everglades. Does anyone else remember when getting to Key West was an adventure that you had to work for? I mean, it was a long drive, no traffic jams ever, 2 lane road I think most of the way. Key West was never crowded. You had earned your drink at Sloppy Joe's. And you had that drink wearing a t-shirt over your bathing suit and maybe a baseball cap and some jellyfish stings that you got swimming back to the dive boat. LoL. And if you took photos they were somehow always blurry. Now it's crowded all the time but sure used to be a fun getaway!
Wow you should write a book about it
@@NickJohnson guess I kinda did! "Lost America". I don't think you can get lost in FLA anymore.
Paving paradise to put up a parking lot.I think about this song every time I see things like this about Florida especially.
I"m a 62-year-old female Navy Veteran who was blindsided and displaced after having lived in my apartment building and signing another lease for another year last December but it sold the very next day and, the copy of my lease went out the window and, then I was pressured to go on a month to month lease and was given GTFO orders but, since I was such a good tenant they give me an extra 30 days; they basically threw me a bone. Well that day came on May 1st and I've been living in the Salvation Army facility ever since in Tampa Florida so Welcome to Florida and Thanks California and New York really I can't thank you enough!!! They refurbished my apartment and hiked up the rent $600 out of my price range because I'm on a fixed income as a senior citizen. There's hundreds more just like me.
Your landlord’s choose to raise the rent. Not the people who moved in. Your blaming the wrong people, and neither will change your situation other than make you feel worse.
That beginning song actually hit close to home for me. I’m born and raised in Naples Florida, and last year I moved out to Tennessee because Florida just isn’t the same place that I was raised in and it’s very sad.
I have been in Tampa Florida since 2009 and holy shit Florida has grown so freaking fast…. I travel the entire state for work and I can see all the houses going up quickly it’s insane.
Nick, I’ve been watching your videos for some time but I appreciate you focusing on Polk county and Florida at large. As a 4th generation Polk county Florida native and 5th generation Floridian, I can vouch that it is very different than how I grew up. Even though I moved(my husband is from the northeast) my whole family still lives there and I can say that we miss the old Florida. I definitely took it for granted when I was younger but I really miss it now more than ever. I truly take great pride in being a native Floridian!
Old Florida is gone maybe 😢
@@NickJohnson Sure wish you could've interviewed Sheriff Grady Judd! You REALLY would've had some footage! THAT GUY is a trip AND a vacation. (and an awesome sheriff!)
It's not just FL, look at NC,SC,GA,TN,TX, People moving from the northeast bringing their political views with them and turning these states into what they ran from and pushing locals out of their own towns, SICKING.
Lol
Stop blaming the Northeast. I mostly see plates from GA, TX and TN. They are generally more entitled, rude and way slower than Northeastern visitors.
I came over from Oklahoma 😎🌞
People are moving to Florida in MUCH higher rates than all those states aside from Texas.
Oh god... the "political" commenter 😂🤣
Hey Nick, it’s me kate. Thanks for the interview i loved being a part of your content! just visited LA recently, miami traffic is definitely worse!!!!
Then stay in LA please
My daughter moved to Nassau County, town of Yulee, 6 years ago. The growth there just since she moved is crazy. Every time we go visit there is a massive new sub-division going up! It's just crazy!
As I've mentioned before I lived there in Florida, and witnessed this, retired from the VA and returned back home to Puerto Rico and the same is happening here two 😡The tearing down of forests and small hills to plant home developments and resort like housing for Air B&B is getting on our nerves down here ☝🏾
Where are they coming from?
Sadly, Puerto Rico is digging itself into a hole it will never get out of, because of governments that can't learn how to manage money well, along with frequent power outages as a result of obvious incompetence by AEE/LUMA that are incredibly lazy and money-hungry and showing no care in ever going solar, police force is incredibly weak, corrupt and inconsistent, wages in majority of jobs are woefully stagnant, and services that are available in the mainland US, are not available in Puerto Rico and other US territories.
@@Deist000 All over mostly Eastern & Southern USA but lately even from some Foreign Countries
@@JonTheVGNerd I read your comment and "Yes Indeed" it's true there's issues involving past and some present Governmental Officials, the Electric Grid & Power Companies ☝🏾Let me remind y'all it's an Autónomos Commonwealth with it's own Constitution although only one of our Governor's had the (BLS) to invoke such before Congress in the pass ☝🏾You can't judge an ENTIRE People and taint it's image based on maybe a "few rotten apples" when you mention our Police Force here😳🤔 Than why are Departments from Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey and others coming down here with intentions on recruiting some of them (bilinguals)☝🏾The essence of your comment is as if these issues are of not existance on the US Mainland ☝🏾 Ah,😳 not with a State Federal Retiree with military under His wings Dude☝🏾 I've traveled most of the US there's places WORST than PR up north, I Wouldn't live anywhere else but here my HOME a Mountain Hillbilly (Jíbaro) and proud of it☝🏾
stealing our land and driving whole families out their community
People from the Northeast bring their issues with them to Florida and that is really the only problem. Could not have found a worse person to interview. Florida is a huge state. Second largest to Georgia east of the Mississippi. Yes, there are some booming areas in Florida, however, both Miami Dade and Broward, two of the most populated in the state, actually fell in population last year. Jacksonville area has tons of space. Drive down I-75, even near the Tampa area, and you just see trees. The coasts and a few miles inland are pretty populated but there is still plenty of land in Florida. Space isn't the issue, it's just the type of people moving in.
I agree. He couldn’t have picked a worse person to interview. Pick someone from north Florida to interview and I promise you, you’ll get a completely different perspective. If I lived in south Florida, or even central Florida, I’d be miserable & pissed too.
Blame others for your problems
@@sherrydalton6516 I like to say "the further south you travel in Florida, the more northern the people are!" South Florida is NOT the true south. They're mostly transplants.
Northeastern people think they know what’s best for everyone else. I really just think New Yorkers need to leave 🤣
I’m in north central Florida… about half mile from John Travolta’s place. I grew up here and moved when I joined the Marine Corps, then moved back in 2018. It’s breaking my heart to see horse farms quickly become communities and old Florida drifting away. My concerns are the demographics that have invaded us and literally changing the cost of living . I dread the day when eminent domain arrives to take over and rezones my property. I will fight to keep the farm I grew up and bought. But sadly most of my neighbors are leaving before being pushed out. I am watching the State of Florida die. Soon there won’t be anything left to hang on to and I’ll be faced with invaded another state.
She’s completely right!! In every aspect!! And I used to live in South Florida and move to Central Florida looking for a nicer and quiet place to live but even Central Florida is becoming just like South Florida, congested, hectic everybody in a hurry worst traffic ever! Among other things not making life that appealing in the region anymore.
She's wrong about beating up on Republicans. Look, the alternative is outright tyranny. Democrats have moved very far left. Do I think Republicans are doing a great job? Hell, no! I just don't want to be under the thumb of Maoists who sold out to China and have a plan for a single type of worldwide government that resembles a farm with us being the livestock.
I MOVED FROM THE EAST TO CALIFORNIA IN 1962 WITH MY PARENTS ..I WAS A LITTLE KID THEN ..IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL .ORANGE GROVES FOR MILES ..EASY TO OWN A HOUSE ..52 YEARS LATER CALI IS A HELL HOLE ...YOUR EXPERIENCING TOO MUCH GROWTH TOO FAST IN FLORIDA..GOOD LUCK FLORIDAINS
Father was born in Bartow back in the 60s. I’m from St. Pete but haven’t lived there since ‘99. Florida just keeps growing. Housing insurance is next to impossible to get/retain for an extended period of time.
Omg! Yes! Ours seems to cancel and change hands every couple of years and, like many others around here, our homeowners premium and property tax nearly DOUBLED this year. We've never even had a claim and aren't in a flood zone! It's getting worrisome...
@@pipdippitydoooo1158 a large part of my family still lives there and has been complaining about this exactly. My aunt’s husband was telling me that they cancelled their insurance out of nowhere and he’s currently negotiating another policy. They’re based in Tampa and it’s looking like it’s gonna get tougher.
Home insurance more than property taxes its it's crazy ,people must vote out state leaders they suck
I grew up in sprawl like this in California, in a fast growing part of the state during that time that was just tract homes, churches, malls, and more tract homes. Any quaint, undeveloped, or rural parts of the area got developed into more tract homes. It was really gross and I couldn’t wait to leave for a town with some history and older buildings that weren’t brand new cheap tract homes. Well now the city I live in has become constant developments where the old buildings get torn down for new buildings that look exactly like any other city anywhere else. So I might as well go live in soulless suburb, rather than stay in the terrible crime infested soulless city, since everything I moved out of the suburbs for was gone.
Basically everything everywhere now sucks.
My mom is a Florida native. Moved to Colorado in 1960. Two of her aunts had moved there and that's why she thought she'd check it out. She married my dad, who was from Colorado and settled in. Well, the housing market took off in Colorado and traffic got bad so they recently sold their house, since my dad doesn't have any living relatives there and all their kids have moved out of state. (I was priced out of the market in 2016.) They moved back to Florida and now they're trying to convince me to move there with me. I've tried to explain that I couldn't afford Colorado and I certainly can't afford Florida. It would be fun with all my cousins around though. One long party.
It is amazing that people have different tastes in music, food, fashion, entertainment,..etc,etc,....but they all seem to want the EXACT !! same house in the EXACT !! same looking neighborhood.
This!!! ...dystopian...buncha stroads too...
Florida has gotten way too populated. Before you know it, south of Jacksonville to Miami will be nothing but a huge suburb
I grew up in Haines city my whole life in Polk county and I’m only 20 and seeing the growth throughout my life is pretty crazy. The orange groves going away and houses going up. I kind of feeing like there packing people in and not expanding anything else. Personally once I get out of college I plan on probably moving out of the state because it’s almost impossible now for someone that’s just working a regular job to get a place rents have pretty much doubled or more
Hi Nick I am one of your new subscribers watch you every day. Thanks for making this video has been a real eye opener;for the last 15 years I have been hearing about moving to Florida and no one has ever shown what the growth has been doing to the state. Sad it’s looking like Cali & NYC in regards to traffic, long lines & high prices. Yeah Hi yes I missed the Florida bandwagon 🤪
3rd gen Florida native, grew up obsessed with Florida, sad to see what is happening in recent years. 2021-2022 some significant changes have quietly happened that will negatively impact children with severe developmental disabilities. The expenses here are skyrocketing and what is happening in private/public schools is sad, especially in regards to children with severe disabilities and the gross lack of resources.
Get out before you get trapped inside a DISASTER in the making... And remember to find an attractive blue state because FLA is FKD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I grew up in Lakeland, went to school in Tally, and now live in St. Pete and am looking at moving away. Part of Florida’s charm was the relative quaintness and proximity to the beach along with the low cost of living.
Now it’s packed and over priced. I can find houses for rent in Charlotte for the price of 2 bedroom apartments here.
While there is no state income tax, most business don’t pay squat (I work remote for a firm in DC in order to get paid what’s in line with my degree and requisite experience).
What an interesting look at what's going on somewhere that's not a town or state that is or has become a place no one wants live anymore. You've definitely highlighted those places. As for the impact on the ecosystem. Going to be big. Good/bad? We'll see. The guest you had on, well she's got a lot of good points. You said it was some one you ended up liking. Keep up the good work & I'll keep watching.
Nick you put out the best videos on YT. Keep it going.
I grew up in Central Florida. My husband decided 8 years ago to transfer here to Tennessee. Two years ago we divorced. Now I can't afford to go home because of the exspence of living in Florida. This bites.
This is not a unique problem for people all over the country right now. But we just heard the real estate bubble POP loud and clear, its all coming back down to reasonable costs so we can all move back to where we want to live. Right now the average rent and mortgage all over the country hit an all time HIGH of $2,000/month, that's ridiculous compared to the rest of the WORLD. US is the hardest hit in this fake recession created by politicians with personal agendas and no heart or connection to the people that make this country great. I believe in the next 2-3 years things will change, I am looking to move in 4 years, so hopefully by them things will have recovered economically and housing cost dropped in half that it will be possible to retire and move back to Florida.
@@blackcherry6877 I live in Tennessee now. Florida is my home.
@@MichaelBuck I hope you are right 🙂
So, you didnt save, you didnt plan, you relied on a man, and you're at a transition/dead end in life... gotcha ☺
@@foreverglow5685 No, you live in TN, so TN is your home. FL is where you want to live but can't.
Florida is a great state. There is a lot of growth because of politics, taxes and policies. 1st Florida is in the black not the red. 2nd I have never seen a bill with fracking and education on the same bill. The Florida education system was ranked 40th in 2004 it is now 22nd on some rankings we are as high as 12th. There has never been "Fracking " in Florida. We have 825 miles of beaches yes some are overcrowded and hard to find parking, These are in the same Metro areas that were overcrowded since the 70's (Miami, Ft Lauderdale, Daytona. We do have a lot of large cattle ranches, citrus groves, strawberries and other tropical fruits.We have 175 state parks and 11 national parks. I do believe a lot of transplants look for "plastic" Florida Disney, Daytona etc. A lot of tourists still look for real Florida with its Spanish Moss, mosquitoes, and alligators. I spent several years as a fishing guide and airboat nature guide taking tourists out on the water and swamps because they wanted to see the real Florida. Currently I'm in Charlotte County. We were devastated by Hurricane Charlie in 2004 and the suffered through a housing crisis. Lots of factors to consider on that last part including snowbirds giving up their winter home to foreclosure a market turn that left owners underwater on their overpriced homes and the pay scale for jobs lower than the national averages. We have a few failed developments in Charlotte county as scars from this period. We do have a lot of people that move here that become 1/4 backs or 1/2 backs. Heat, humidity and hurricanes send them into Georgia and the Carolinas. As for water levels rising I haven't seen a shred of evidence of that, I also checked the sky for falling seems good. FEMA has pushed the limits of declaring flood zones and ignored the 100 year flood plain data. This means you get to pay flood or wind insurance on your home if its mortgaged so FEMA can pay off Hurricane Sandy debts. The weather channel makes it sound like every hurricane is killing millions and Covid killed us all according to main stream media. Last Governor Desantis is amazing he is opposed to recreational weed but publicly said if the citizens of Florida vote for it its in. He represents everyone in the state and serves the will of the people. Imagine if every politician had that ethos,
I agree. Ron Desantis is the best governor in the nation right now and most Americans agree. I hope he waits a few more years before he runs for President. We need him here in the Sunshine State.
I appreciate your work.
Excellent insight into Florida's explosive development. More Kate.👍
As a 55 yr old native South Floridian, I am sad to see old stomping grounds go away (Bahia Cabana, the old Sporto) but I love to see all the development. There's excitement in the air and fabulous new, hip restaurants to try. I feel like I'm visiting the world within 5 miles of my house. Oh, not sad about the rising home prices, these newcomers are making us rich.
I know u love it babe... now vacation here in southern california and spend some $$$
I agree with her. I feel like I pay so much just to live here. I live in South Florida which is outrageously expensive even if you are middle class.
Sometimes your videos irritate me; and other times your videos are spot on. This is one of those times when your video is spot on.
Even the really pretty parts of Florida, such as around Ocala, are becoming overgrown and over-developed.
I remember visiting Florida 60 years ago, when we visited my grandparents who had retired there. Then (emphasis on the word "then") it was stunningly beautiful. Now Florida has only small places of that kind of beauty, and I think even that will be gone by 2040.
This is absolutely spot on, Nick: you hit the nail on the head. 👍
Hey Nick, first of all been watching your videos for a few years now and keep it up!! Secondly, welcome to Florida!! It’s been our home for the past 30 years, 25 in Polk County, a couple in Horizon West (the fastest growing area near Orlando) and the past couple of years, we’re in The Villages!! Florida is definitely not what it used to be, although always busy in the winters when the Snowbirds all flock back. Polk County (mostly the I4 corridor) has become warehouse haven for just about every large company and they’re building super huge warehouses everywhere, but mostly in the Lakeland area, but yet I4 is still only three lanes through most of Polk. Although their wages were fairly competitive when they started, that is no longer the case and because of all the migration to Florida from New England, Midwest and even California, housing has become unaffordable for most. Most of the major cities in FL are seeing over 25% annual sales and rent increases in the past couple of years alone. A lot of College educated young people are all moving out of state because Florida wages never kept up with the price increases. Everyone cheered the $15./hr hike but nowadays that just doesn’t cut it.
The weather actually sucks, well unless you’re a snowbird!! Summers are brutal, in the 90’s and high humidity from end May till November and don’t forget Hurricanes, Tornadoes, spring drought and oh yeah your summer torrential downpours that can be mini hurricanes at times.
The Villages, if you like living in a bubble, then you’ll love it, but you better lean far right if you know what I mean. Politics is everywhere and crazier in election years. Also did you miss that no houses have lawn ornaments (not allowed), fences (not allowed in Premium homes so say hi to your neighbors right next door) and forget walking or riding your bike on the golf cart paths, they’ll run you over.
Anyways, do your homework before moving here, as for us now that we’re retired, we’ll be moving elsewhere in the US to get away from all this craziness!!
Moved here in 82, just 30 or so miles north of where you were. One of my jobs was hauling citrus to the plant, up and down US27 there. At that time (mid 90s) all that land either side of the road was citrus, nary a house around. Now it might as well be Miami.
My county is the same way, I have wanted to leave for years, probably will if I survive the coming recession.
Oh Florida, you are so fun to watch
I agree with everything she said. I've lived in South Florida for over 50 years, and this State has become one big business. What most ppl don't know is that all the new construction going on in West Central Florida is known as SINKHOLES ALLEY. Do a Google search, all those Counties that houses are growing like weeds are in the Sinkhole Alley.
Native Floridian, 48 yrs old, Tampa Bay area. Bought my house in 2000. 3/2/2 1500 sq ft, $110k. 20 yrs later, getting offers for $400k. CRAZY. I'd love to sell, but can't afford to move now that prices are so high! New homes have 6ft between them. My house sits on 1/3 acre. You won't see this kind of land again.
Enjoyed hearing what Kate had to say. Sounds very realistic about the situation. Hope your dreams happen so you can have happiness flowing in your life.
Really? She was the biggest crybaby. I couldn’t stand all the whining
That is also another way to look at it. You know?
She does sound discontented-- but then she names off a series of problems now affecting all rising or already-prosperous states, both blue and red. Other than "our state's not like it used to be," I didn't hear anything uniquely wrong. Most states with anything at all going have similar problems.
Great Video Nick,
I agree with her 💯%
It feels like we’re getting the sludge in population moving down here.
No sense of community , lack of decency or courtesy type of folk moving here.
🙏🏻Praying for a hurricane to wash them out. Seems harsh but some of us know how to build up together from the ground up instead of expecting everything brought to you on a silver platter. Wake up call from Mother Nature is definitely needed.
Moved to Florida as a child, it has changed a lot. Empty condos and models homes every where now
Born and lived in St.Augustine for 25 years and I couldn’t agree more with that that girl said. Can’t wait to get out of here!
I grew up in old Florida and live in L.A. now. I went back in December in Orlando and Daytona Beach areas and oh my god! Its way to crazy there now with all the newcomers and the over development. Florida is in trouble and it will end up like California if not headed off at the pass. She is absolutely right on all counts.
I lived in Florida for over 25 years. It's too HOT and HUMID for me. The traffic and crime was horrible too. To each his own. I moved from Apopka, back to the north. It's not for me.
Key letters in SNOWBIRD are s n o w. The unrestrained intra state movement seems to be going in one direction. I'm in 'frigid' Michigan and nobody knows where it is. Am a successful refugee from the east coast decades ago
I currently live in Marion County fl. Where I live , homes are popping up everywhere. My neighborhood would avg about 1 or 2 new homes a year. Now at least 30 or 40 homes are being built in here. The traffic in Ocala is getting out of control.
Born in Naples, Collier County, in 72 when population of the county was was less than 40K. Today, almost 400K and traffic is REALLY REALLY BAD!!!
I have lived in florida for 22 years now it is getting very crowded here and traffic is congested in central florida,Ocala
Ocala?! What is the deal with I-75 traffic there? People have said it’s due to the turnpike intersecting there but that’s not believable. Lanes increase leaving the turnpike N bound why would it be so congested?
I appreciate your channel!!! You present a perspective that cites facts and I also love you will add an individual’s perspective who lives there, like this video! Well done! If I ever do decide to move, I am wondering what kind of help you offer, outside of what you present in your videos? Thank you for what you do!
Email me! I can help you figure out where to move! NickJohnsonNC18@gmail
Since it appears the video was solely focused on Polk County, it would have been nice if you had interviewed a native Floridian who was born and raised and still lives in Polk County vs someone who lived in South Florida and moved to North Florida. Maybe the title of this video should be "Why she moved from South Florida to North Florida "
A lot of the video clips are from Clermont and Orlando etc, if the video is Polk County specific, the clips should have been as specific as well.