Florida Has A People Problem
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- Опубликовано: 19 июл 2023
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Really good video, I just left st pete. Unlimited wealth was moving there. Drove up the cost of everything. They say you can drive by the beach on the way to your second job now.
An absolutely truthful situation of what’s happening. Moved here from New York 20 years ago. Just in the last two years. My rent for the same exact apartment went from 1400 to 3500. 🤦🏻♂️
Thank you great information I'm a Floridian born and raised in Florida.
@@sergeylyubarsky8201That's just terrible thank you for sharing with us.
We had a house in Florida (Davenport) and the costs of living there is horrendous, so pleased we have left Florida now. Traffic, Beggers at most traffic lights, Manners, Polk County taxes, Poverty wages reliant on customers tips, Poor workmanship, HOA rules ignored, Orange groves ripped out for massive building of new sub divisions and so much more.
As a born and raised Floridian, it's been heartbreaking to see the rate at which greenspace is being destroyed for endless development. The natural beauty of the state is quickly being replaced by cookie-cutter subdivisions and chain stores.
Yup, it’s terrible 😭
Republican governor will do that to you.
I do enjoy nature too but at the same time as someone who literally escaped california to move to Florida I didn’t know where else to move I needed to be safe and have a normal price house
@@carollyntRepublican governors care much more about the planet then democrats do I lived in California and Florida and california has trash everywhere homless everywhere needles and drugs on the streets not to mention the racist anti white blm terriost
people never vote in the right people
I grew up in Florida The orange groves are disappearing the trees along I 75 are gone. Traffic is horrible And a lot of rude people .
The rude people you encounter here are Ex- New Yorkers and people from New Jersey. Locals have been super nice and respectful since I moved here 2 years ago.
The orange groves are not disappearing. Almost anything southeast of Tampa/Punta Gorda are orange groves. Florida has no shortage of oranges.
If they are rude, the odds are that they are from my old hometown of NYC. I am a New Yorker who grew up in NYC during the Mad Men era of the 1960s. Well scold them if you said or did nothing wrong! Excersise your Freedom of Speech ! 😊
@@FooshNick064yes they pretty much disappeared, south of Miami … homestead was full of orange trees , you could see them driving around! They are gone ! About 20 years ago they began removing orange trees saying they were infected with some kind of disease! It was a lie… and the constant development of houses is pushing agricultural out
@femalewarrior125 What lacks in homestead has been made up for elsewhere. Part of the reason why florida is so expensive is lack of housing. This artificially drives up the cost of everything, California is a great example of this. You cannot preserve everything you like at the expense of the overall health of the state. Just because the orange groves near you are gone does not mean the state has suffered on agriculture.
I’ve lived in Florida my whole life. It’s sad to see acres and acres of land get flattened by developers so they can build cookie cutter homes. It’s ruining the charm that made Florida so awesome to live and grow up in.
blame the local city officials.. they are allowing this to happen. Get involved in your town hall, tell them to set limits on how much housing can be built in your city. People let this slide and wake up one day wondering how things changed.
@@michaelmorgan9009 I belong to a committee in my community that monitors population density and development in our
area. We are a rural settlement and we work closely with our county commissioners. Potential developers must approach our committee with their development plans. We make sure that any development will not interfere with a nearby watershed. In turn, this limits developers of large plots to build only 50% of the land. The rest must be green spaces.
It's all about the $$$$$$.
@@richb.4374 exactly!
if we could build UP and not OUT it would be great, imagine all the agricultural land and greenspace we'd save all over the country if we could contain sprawl.
My hometown in Florida went from having fruit fields to multi story apartment complexes in 15 years. I can only imagine how different it will look like in another 15.
Subtropical Detroit
lool detroit is actually affordable
It’s going to look like Coruscant from Star Wars
@@levismith7444 thats sad but ur right :(
where is this Sebring,Florida ? It is happening everywhere: Gainsville,Ocala,Plant City ,Cape Coral, Leigh Acres.Even the old-time retirees cannot afford it .
Here is an example of the craziness. I purchased my house in 1988 for $98k. Now it is worth $900k and none of my children can purchase a reasonable house. Young couples are in debt up to their eyeballs. It is nuts and the traffic is unbelievable
Its like that everywhere! Makes me wonder who is getting Rich off of this fiasco!
It’s fine, baby boomers had it wayyyy easier in relation to home prices(adjusted for 2023 inflation $) vs. adjusted incomes even at much higher interest rates. In most in demand areas, If you don’t come from family wealth and inherit property, very high percentage younger people never will no matter how much harder they work, higher education etc vs. incomes and debts
It is becoming like Hawaii. Young people growing up in Hawaii can't afford to live on the own for many years. Even young married couples live with their parents while they save to buy a home. It can take one to two decades to raise the funds. Meanwhile many condos sit empty, because they are just vacation homes of people who might only spend one or two weeks there.
@@marymccluer1630 where do I sign up? How about the new normal is now taking about 3 decades of saving n living with your parents, so you’re late 40’s now easily still not even close to being able to buy like in San Jose, Manhattan LA San Diego Seattle Miami etc let alone anywhere in Hawaii now
Also Canada in a nutshell
I’m a 3rd Generation South Florida Native. My entire family left. We are now scattered across the states. It’s so sad what Florida has become. We lived on the ocean and the developers just kept squeezing us all out. I miss the old Florida so bad 😢
Amen!
The old Miami from the 70s-90s was the best version of that city IMO. Now? It's completely ruined and cannot be undone unless a major hurricane washes it away and they have to start over.
@@thedirtybubble9613yall sound dumb it is the same you just get scared seeing black people with guns when in reality they just want fun like white people did in the older days Florida ain't the problem we're the fhking problem government laws society all Dat bs if it's so bad then go in dept and rock on money ain't real anyway but nhaaaa yall rather keep yo kids stressed and worry about where tf you wanna live while living
The real Natives miss it more - WW
Yup, in the 1970s, we would go do to the old fishermen trailers on the beach or intracoastal and buy a pound of rock shrimp for $2 a pound. Now it is $12 a pound and the old fish camps location have high rise condos…politicians and developers destroyed a beautiful southern culture. I’m so glad I experienced old Florida as a kid and teenager.
As a young person born and raised in Florida, it is tragic to see so much of what made Florida special get wiped out. Aside from the mosquitos, there was something so special about this state, and as an urban planning graduate, I wanted to do my part to save the Florida I know. Now, I feel like the things I loved are getting wiped out, and all I'm getting in return are reasons to leave.
If Urban planning was your goal then I can't imagine how any part of This state failed to set your hair on fire. I almost regret developing a hobbyist interest in land use and urban development because that little bit of knowledge filled me with bitterness at the backwardness of the intensely car focused development patterns here Florida, city and state government seems to go out of their way to waste one of the nicest climates in US behind Hawaii.
I disagree with your assessment of FL. This is what I commented:
Your video rather degrades FL and I don't appreciate it! I moved to Florida in 1978, my husband's family have lived here for generations, he himself was born and raised in St Augustine, and I raised my daughter in St. Augustine. I loved FL the first time I visited (years before I moved here) and I love FL now! Yes, overall it has changed, but there are still many pockets of "old Florida" that the people who have made comments (at least the comments I've read) don't realize or acknowledge. My family and I moved from St Augustine to a nearby small town ~ 5 yrs ago and love it! The ocean is an hour away, the property taxes are low, and we live on a big, beautiful lake. It's only a short drive to St Augustine and a few other "cities." Floridians who speak "poorly" of FL should stop complaining and appreciate what we have. If you don't like living in a larger city with traffic and more expensive real estate, then move to a smaller town. No place is "perfect" so prioritize what is most important to you. FL is the best state in the USA and I would NEVER want to live anywhere else!
Addendum: And, we don't put up with that transgender nonsense! And, we have the best Gov! And, there are NO state taxes! .... I could go on and on!
You sound like a traitor the BEST state in the USA! If you think the grass is greener in another state go try it out!
@@DrSharonFair The truth is painful. It's hard to let go of the golden past. Maybe you can focus your energies on helping Florida's growing homeless population. . Your state needs a Mother Teresa.
@@DrSharonFair It's disappointing to see that you're a full grown adult proudly promoting a child-like, immature, way of thinking. You won't be able to function in the real world or grow as a person if criticism of what is wrong with this state sounds to you like "betrayal of the state".
What you said is simple-minded and inherently authoritarian. Loyalty is something that a healthy minded person reserves for their loved ones. Fellow human beings can reciprocate loyalty, love and care. Places and institutions are merely tools and resources, no more deserving of loyalty than a hammer or a computer. Attempting to promote loyalty to the state, inevitably produces worship of the government (or whatever person you think represents it).
Florida has done a very bad job of making use of its land and resources to improve the lives of its residents. This is a fact. If facts hurt your feelings then go find someone to lie to you.
@@DrSharonFairI do appreciate what I have, but it is being ruined by the countless people who move here
The Villages is constantly growing and is a sprawling monstrocity with many of the homes situated on postage stamp size lots with houses nearly touching one another. It's heartbreaking to see central Florida turned into one massive housing develpment.
I grew up here. From the time I graduated high school in 2012 up until now, they’ve clear out all the fields, cattle, trees, and put up so many houses, gas stations, car washes, sooo many storage units ect. What used to be a 15 min drive, easily turned into a 30-40+ min drive.
Plus, it’s incredibly difficult to afford a life here now. The pay doesn’t match the cost of living. Floridians are getting priced out.
couldnt agree with you more. I remember all the cattle ranches we had in lakeland as a child and passing by them everyday on the school bus. Allot of these ranches are gone and filed with those cookie cutter homes and all you just mentined. My home was worth 120,00 about 15 years ago and now its worth a whole hell of allot more than it actually is. Whats hilarious is im doing exactly what some people are mentioning, living with parents and saving up from my full time job to hopefully buy a home someday. Even if I could outright buy a home, the cost of living has me priced out and id lose it anyway.
Lets see whos gonna cut these entitled rich folks and upper class moving into florida by the thousands. Whos gona do the farming plumbing electricity hard labor and a big one is , hospitality jobs. Gona have to contract out and bring people from other states. Resorts and hotels probably will end up foreign workers on work visas and house them somewhere to make up for loss of local employees 😢
Where in FL you at?
Just imagine how it is changed since i moved here in 1970.
😊😊😊xx😊
What's upsetting is that a large majority of homes are held by overseas investors. This is keeping that already high rent money out of Florida's economy just further exacerbating the issue.
That's so true.... and they don't even live in the houses.
I thought DeSantis fixed that
Booom !!!
*exacerbating
@@bobdouglass8010 Well, the rent hasn't really gone down, so I'd imagine that no, he didn't do much about it.
I'm a 5th-generation Orlando native (and probably more because my great-grandmother was Native-American) and I had to get the hell out of there after college in 2009. It just hurt too much to see what used to be beautiful lakes filled with algae bloom and pretty forests replaced with yet another CVS / Walgreens on opposite corners.
What's CVS?
What about all the disappearing orange groves? How said is that. 😞
Sadly the entire country has changed. It’s inevitable. Nothing stays the same, like it or not.
@@TomSpeaks-vw1zp yeah but being against change isn’t what we’re talking about it’s preservationism vs maximumalistic people who want to burn down every forest excuse me the woods as you would probably call it?
@@flyrobin2544 supposedly disease wiped out a lot of out orange groves a while back just a matter of time before we discover that wasn’t natural I mean it did literally kill of pretty much every single one somehow and every orange grove isn’t another type of farm or something any more it’s literally a damn amazon factory or cookie cutter neighborhood or modern apartments that cost your life savings in a month. You’re telling me oranges grew here naturally, for probably who knows how long then all the sudden, every single orange grove dies?
I moved down to Florida earlier last year, my family saying "it's great! The water is awesome, the weather is great, etc.". Then you get here and you realize it's horrible if you're a working individual in the middle class or lower. If you work in a trade, you have to commute to the areas with wealthy people, because that's all the work owners want to get (which is understandable). For me it's an hour drive in the morning and sometimes 2 hours getting home in the afternoon, and that's to go just 21 miles. A CHEAP 2 bedroom place where I live will run you $1,800 a month.. and remember I'm not in the wealthy area, I commute an hour to get there. The people here are the worst, almost like every horrible person from every other state got together and decided this would be a great place to ruin. Even good customer service out here is just horrible, you can tell nobody wants to be at their job and nobody cares about their job either. Employers don't care about their employees, which shows when a tradesman with over 10 years of experience can't make more than $30 an hour.
You're right. FL seems to be the landfill for the entire USA. All sex predators and criminals seem to end up in FL
Y not move if it’s so horrible?
I’m a born and raised native Floridian and I agree. My uncle has been wanting to move here forever and I tell him not to because Florida has changed so much. Also, he can longer afford to move here now. I’m looking to move out of Florida due to everything you mentioned above.
@@LT-et5rr to where? A blue state with crazy taxes and less freedoms? Red states with income tax?
Nah.
The comment about the people is sadly true, and it's only gotten worse.
I’m from Florida. Crazy how much it’s changed in just 10 years. Everybody I meet is from another state, we’re losing our sense of identity it’s sad
We're all from the same country. We need to stop defining ourselves by our state divisions.
Happened to London already.
@@MrAnimasonagree lol
It's like living in an Airport
@@MrAnimason Not what officer meant, I'm betting. Local personal identity comes from being in a place for a generation or two and soaking it up.
To all my old Floridians, I wish you all a happy life and thank you all for being a part of my life in the 1960-1970s. It was the best time in my life. Florida’s old, polite southern charm is gone. Developers and politicians have destroyed our culture…I’m trying to move away from all this craziness
Theres nowhere to go everywhere sucks
I'm a old fashion guy, I was holding the door for a woman, she was about 10 feet from me said I can hold my old Damn Door, so I waited until she got 4 feet from me and slammed it in her face and said open it then.
politicians? why be coy? everybody knows deplorables have been in charge for decades.
It’s heartbreaking. Florida is overrun now and won’t ever be what it was.
@FloridaPreppers-mh7vl really im up in bama. It seems like everyone holds the door for people here. Ladies, hold it for me. I hold it for them. It just makes sense if u are closest, I guess. I dont know why it's like a culture war issue.
As someone who has lived in Florida for almost their whole life the amount of overpopulation in Florida has been increasing so much over the past years to the point that every woods near a city is being cut down to build new residential buildings.
Jews
It's because everyone is fleeing radical democrat states... Especially California
@@HeetXS Buddy go outside the antisemitism thing is so old 😂
i know i’ve been here since 2010, the area i live in was so green and full of trees, now it’s fucking 1300 gas stations or fast food restaurants
@@foxsden12 exactly just buildings on buildings I see a new plot being plowed weekly
I grew up in Florida, it was the most beautiful and peaceful place. Like others have said so many natural areas we used to explore as kids are gone. Living here is literally what made me want to be a mom so I could do the same things my mom did with me here. But now everything is different. I used to dream of buying my childhood home and I don’t think that will ever happen.
Same here. They have destroyed it
@@johndoe-ek6vl well have a NEW dream, off the 0.000001% scumbags that caused it!
It was eye opening to me to see how many people work two jobs to be able to afford to live in Florida when I moved here.
frankly, this can vary state to state, but it's an American issue at large (I can go as far to say it's an earthly issue)
It's like people move there to enjoy the climes but they end up working so much they don't have the time. It's crazy!
@@edwardmiessner6502 but we can make time if we put our will to ut
Thank Joe Biden for that…it hasn’t always been this way. The new Floridians flooding here from Democrat states with outrageous taxation has CREATED this problem.
@@lizzieb6311 also what the gov is doing to its people in ca are causing them to flee to us here.
I was born in Florida and Im still in Florida, I can agree this place is way too hard to live in.
Lol try Calgary Alberta
@@ImJidionDaddy I would rather live in Calgary than Florida...
It was fine u til northerners started flocking here in groves.
I came here with my parents as they retired while I was still in school..I’m trying to leave but I’ve never been so mistreated by people in my life than when I was here, I’m originally from Connecticut..I really hate it here
Honestly im looking towards Tampa, maybe Lakeland or Jacksonville since im changing careers. but if i cant get there im leaving this state. the amount of people coming in is insane and the pay for alot of jobs doesnt compensate enough.
As someone who grew up and live here, it's true. I live in what used to be a small town with about an 8th of the population that it is now. The infrastructure and the budget cannot keep up, and our town council that makes decisions are running around like chickens with their heads cut off trying to put the fire out one bucket at a time. Our traffic is terrible because our roads were not built for this many people, so they are always widening roads and since there are a good amount of 1 lane roads with properties right up on them, they have no room to correct it. The only things that get built anymore are apartment complexes and fast food places leaving us with restaurants that have phenomenal opens and crash right after corporate leaves them to their own. I'm 23 btw and cannot wait until I can move out of this town
I moved to FL 20 years ago and it was wonderful!!! Now, it’s so crowded and everything I loved about it is gone and so much traffic. It’s time for us to move on to another place
The thing about the chain restaurants popping up all over Florida is that Florida is the headquarters for many of those restaurants. Outback Steakhouse, Hooters, Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Bonefish Grill, Burger King, Sonny's BBQ and many others all started in Florida. Many of them were vacation restaurants that turned into franchises.
Tony Romas too
I learned about burger king and Jacksonville this week, the first one is in riverside on kings street.
there's a lot of history in Florida, I hope those who grew up here make some money moves so they can move with the city.
Bonefish Grill is good!
Wawa and Rita's Water Ice from the Philadelphia suburbs
@@kevinkennawell they seemingly have more locations in Florida than NJ/Philly now. They were a nice upgrade from Racetrak
It’s unbearable here in Tampa. None of the infrastructure is built for its current population. We are leaving this month for Texas because of it. You get an apartment with roaches and water damage with old appliances for $1200-$1400 in Tampa’s outskirts. While in Austin’s outskirts you get an apartment with brand new appliances and a backyard for the same price.
Because of illegals. So many renting.
Idk why people always seem to ignore the fact that Floridas urban fabric is literally 2nd worst to only Nevada lol
lol, Austin property values are crashing, I believe it's #1, don't buy a home if you're thinking about it.
If you are looking to move to Tampa area. I would check out Pinellas County
You are right in the whole state the Tampa / St.Pete area is the area I hate driving to. It’s almost as bad as Chicago with gridlock in traffic. Plus too many dumpy run down areas.
Still 1,200 people everyday moving to florida you will leave lots of home appreciation on the table if you move..provided you own a home. If you rent. Then it’s a different story. Texas probably is a better cheaper choice for you if you haven’t got on the home ownership train yet.
I’m glad this video mentions on many occasions the wealth disparities and median income vs. cost of living crisis. As a person who was born and grew up here, it wasn’t even before I graduated high school that I realized I’d never be able to afford to buy my own home. Even renting makes no sense, when even if I were paid upwards of $25 an hour (much higher than most hourly wages offered in my area) I’d only be able to afford the most run down apartments. Don’t even get me started on even corporate landlord owned properties… and I’m in one of the big 4 cities. It sucks out here
Florida is a product of it's own choices. I started visiting my retired grandparents in the early '70s and have seen the changes since then. Floridians have always bragged that it's such a great place that everyone wants to move there. I had an opportunity to move there in the early '90s and passed with no regrets. Now we're looking for places to retire and have visited different parts of Florida. The nice weather and well manicured towns can't make up for the overcrowded and socially toxic place it has become. We could retire there very comfortably, but have no interest in it. We don't even visit family there unless it's absolutely necessary.
That’s great, stay where you are…..
@@ashdav9980 Thanks. You do the same.
@@ashdav9980 This is the typical response I'd expect from someone in Florida, unnecessary anger and cruelty. It exemplifies what the state has become, an unlivable shithole full of anger and hatred.
excellent news stay out were closed
Well said! And two key points...
1) FL is a product of its own choices (be aware of who you vote for). 2) SOCIALLY TOXIC!
I know this bec I grew up there. Moved to ATL 20 years ago. Would never go back. Ya'll can keep your fiscal and social inequity amongst yourselves.
I probably know 100 people who have moved from New York to Florida. They never lose their New york way if thinking or acting, never really assimilate into the Floridian lifestyle or culture. They are always new yorkers living in Florida. And they are taking over the state.
We tell them what time it is believe me. Don't screw with us rednecks.
Bingo
The sixth borough.
They all think they are superior too. They think they are the only ones who know what food should taste like, they make me sick. Their ego is beyond ridiculous and entitled.
I was from Ohio and it was easy for me to assimilate into Florida Life. I never felt part of the North and was always Floridian even outside of Florida. I have photos and memories of Florida. I eliminated all of my memories of the North.
Born and raised Floridian. The pace of change here is unimaginable. This place is my home, but I don’t even recognize my own home anymore. The people who emigrated here are didn’t move here to become a Floridian, they moved here for Florida weather and did nothing to adapt to our culture. Instead they imported theirs. And it has honestly ruined this once beautiful place. It’s become cookie cutter after cookie cutter homes and big chain restaurants. It’s so sad. South Florida was never meant to have this many people live here. The infrastructure here can’t efficiently move or support this many people. And the rate of people coming has made housing pretty much unaffordable for anyone - even if you are lucky enough to make six figures. And the tragedy that is our governor only offers complaints about Biden. All while he does nothing to solve the problems happening in our state.
I hear you, but you’re wrong about the governor. DeSantis has been doing a ton to help alleviate the housing issues. The real issue with his government has been so good. He’s attracting more people than his policy can adjust for. I’ll give you one example, though there are many if you read through recent policy: he loosened various zoning regulations to allow for additional housing and multi family housing to built and created tax incentives for those building affordable housing.
@@cardplayer2124 ::: Ha !! Yes … Ron changed zoning so now protected wetlands are no longer Protected for wildlife & clean water percolation.. so that out of state, out of country developers can build cheaply~made homes on itty bitty parcels of land where ALL the trees have been cut down. I’m 4th generation Floridian. What are you ? Rick Scott & Desantis have ruined our state with unchecked development. 3 Big Biz lobbies for every Florida law maker … Ron is no friend of multi-generational, working-class, native Floridian. I bear witness with my own eyes.
He's more concerned about the border in Texas than people ( or as DeSantis calls them, "Riff -raff" ) struggling to make ends meet right under his stuck up nose.
that's the way the world works. I'm sure you have some misplaced hate for germany defending their borders back in the day. Now you understand. But I doubt it.
I don't see how many more people can fit into south Florida...they are already turning everything between Miami and Florida City into suburbs
There is not even a mention of the home insurance crisis in Florida where many companies won't even insure a house there because of hurricaines, sinkholes, rising sea levels, as well as tornadoes. If you can get insurance it is quite high.
Yeah, I hear from certain Floridians that there is no climate problem in FL. well, if they don't think so they should open up a property insurance company with decent rates. Surpisingly, the market it wide open for businesses like that.
I was born and raised in Florida and its so sad to see all the natural beauty of the State being destroyed. The woods i used to play in as a kid is all destroyed. Traffic is getting worse in my area cant even enjoy going out anymore. Its seems like its a fad and a trend that people are moving here from other places. My wife and I are plan on moving to another State soon, we are tired of the overcrowding and the high cost of everything.
Natural beauty of the land? and woods? so what you're saying is that you prefer Florida to be a swamp that it currently is?
This is the reality check of the current situation. I just visited Florida pretty much for the second time in my life and really fell in love with the gulf area and Cocoa Beach in the Atlantic, but the reality of me actually being able to afford to live there working in a nonprofit? Is slim to none. The problem is, so many people have flipped their houses and made stacks of money, from the baby boomers to even millennials that got a house early, they have probably easily made $500,000 in profit, and now since they upgraded to a bigger house, they need to charge tenants more to maintain their quality of life. My friend was paying about $1500 for a one bedroom in Tampa and that is supposedly a steal.
YES, we bought our 3/2/2 concrete block house in 2009 - in foreclosure - for $75,000. Even though it's 16 years old, we could sell it now for $250,000. The PROBLEM is, if we DID, we could NOT afford to buy a similar home in Florida !
$1500 a mo?? Where? In the hood. Even a 1 br is hard to find for 1500
In south FL most 1bd are $1800+ now smh. $1500 can get you a small efficiency
Vacation rentals should be banned. Taking all the properties and rentals of people that actually live there and having in essence hotels In residential neighborhoods should be outlawed
@@hideoussails1783 actually Airbnb is single-handedly to blame for the crisis we’re in. No houses on market. Just rentals
Grew up on a small ranch in Central Fl. Leaving next month due to the encroaching cities and destruction of much of the small-scale agriculture that built the core of the state. I hope the state is able to course correct away from the suburban sprawl and innefficiency that is destroying Florida's habitats and native industries. Thanks for the video!
No, Florida is over. On it's way to become the new California failed experiment.
Wow. Leaving to go where?
The Everglades is destroyed with all those snakes. Last time I went there few years ago hardly saw any wildlife
I could not agree more. I grew up on the Space Coast in the 70s, and I loved the wilderness areas, but they have now been almost entirely cleared. Florida today seems like it is almost completely built on and paved over.
@@chrism3784 The endangered crocodile population is exploding at turkey point from crocodile hatchlings able to eat python eggs and hatchlings both hatch approximately same season .
My family moved to Florida from Ohio in 2012, we were staying at my grandmothers house since the 2008 crisis. It in my opinion was a terrible terrible mistake. The main reason they wanted to move was the weather but we learned quite quickly we just traded what time of year we go outside. While Ohio's winters were super cold, Florida's summers are insanely hot and humid. It just went from us gathering around the fire to gathering around the AC. Even since 2012 we have seen the places get even more crowded and the infrastructure just cant handle it, the traffic here is honestly super dangerous. Also in Ohio where I used to live I felt some sense of community here I don't feel it at all it just feels like a souless concrete shithole with equally cold and mean people. Don't even get me started on the hurricanes where part of the year we need to worry about some random storm possibly taking everything from us. Don't tell me its a good idea to pack this natural disaster prone state chock full of people, that's gonna end well I'm sure. All I know is as soon as I can afford it I'm getting out of this hellhole and i'm *never* looking back.
So many of us just air condition our bedrooms, we can't afford to keep the entire house cool. So imagine everyone in their own room 6 months out of the year. We came from Ohio over 50 years ago and you are right about how the communities are so different.😞
If you really don't like it, then go back. Plenty of people do. They come for a few years then leave. It's not for everyone.
@@chiarac3833did you finish reading her comment or did you just write this before you even read it? She’s working on leaving Im sure saving. Read before you open your mouth.
@@Arginne I read it and responded. Too goddamned bad if you didn't care for the response.
Born and raised in Florida we have enough people here now no more please
I grew up in Florida but moved away a long while ago. The state has changed a lot now, looking more metropolitan with more money-image conscious people everywhere, more impolite people who seem to be from out of state vs the locals who are more down to earth and friendly. I remember when you could rent cheap efficiencies near the water, no hassle free beach parking, no wait at restaurants, immediate parking at the grocery store to name a few. Whenever I go back to visit family, it’s congestion and crowd everywhere. Its lost the charm that I grew up around and appreciated. I do accept times have changed and its only a memory now of the good old days.
I visited so FL since 1955. When I returned in late '80's was shocked how it had changed and by the 90's I felt I needed a passport to visit FL it was a foreign Carribean country in Ft. Laud and Miami., I loved El Pollo Tropical fast food, though.
@@SarahSmith-vt3oc cringe
Omg the worst thing about the transplants are their complete lack of manners!!! They are so rude
@@jessklay8594 I've never gotten into more verbal arguments than I have in the past 3 years with what I assume are transplants. I've lived in FL for 33 of my 36 years
@@ncapone87 No. Floridians are really stressed out with your governor and how he's running your state into the ground. It's sad. Florida is becoming a national joke.
I went to Florida for the first time a little more than a year ago and yikes. I could never imagine living there. A sprawl of concrete in a painfully humid swamp.
With all the flooding in FLA you'd better build everything of concrete.
Bro I moved to florida in 2012 with my parents (I was 12) I wanted the fuck out of here by 2014. Its stupid we moved from Ohio because half of the year we could not go outside... we traded it for the same exact thing just flipped. The summers are so unbearably hot its just as bad as ohio winters... At least where we used to live we had really nice forests and metroparks... Florida is just as you said this hot humid concrete shithole and I cant wait to get out of this garbage state.
what's funny is all the new apartments are being built from the ground floor up of OSB. LOL the humidity alone is going to rot it out nevermind any flood damage!@@crand20033
To whomever was involved in this production, you nailed it. The images, graphics, writing, the accuracy. Great job
I'm a native Floridian, living here for 48 years. It's changed so much. They just keep building and cramming more people in... There's no space left. The traffic is a critical issue of safety. Let's say a hurricane is coming. There's only 2 highways out of here, and depending where you live, with normal traffic it can take 7-8 hours just to cross into Georgia. If I wanted to safely evacuate, along with all other residents trying to flee from the storm at the same time, among 2 highways outta here... I'd have to leave 4-5 days in advance, which is impossible because they can't specifically predict where it will make landfall that early on.
So essentially we're all stuck in a storm because there's too many people to safely get out.
Here's my idea: enforce a maximum capacity. Just like they do in buildings for safety standards. Only allow new residents in as people leave or pass away.
Impossible... But one can only dream....
95 is a nightmare
If there only put some sort of cap on population, we are going to have even worse problems...... Like, um, the sinkhole issue. Florida's limestone cave system can only hold a certain amount of weight, we cannot build massive buildings everywhere, they Will not survive the climate . Ugh. We need more properly younger, Middle aged people in positions of authoritative change. One can only dream indeed. And good grief am I sick of people moving here and complaining it's too hot, and they miss mountains. Get off my yard! Lol. Dream on, we're all in this silly boat together. ....signed, yet another disgruntled Florida native
@@planesight1142 🤣👍
That would take some kind of vision and planning. FL is about just one thing: growth. Economic growth. In the U.S., that can only be done with population growth. Add more people and low taxes and you very quickly get insufficient infrastructure. So, setting population limits for "safety" issues like evacuation in a state run by the kind of people it elects will never happen. Even if thousands of people die. That's just the cost of doing business.
@@utahcornelius9704 Aye.... True.
This video is spot on. I love being a Florida resident, but us locals are being priced out at every turn. Most young folks I know require multiple room mates for a crummy apartment. My commute to work in the Tampa area is an hour and ten minutes despite only being 18 miles from work. I definitely don’t see staying here long term as viable anymore.
Wherever you go will eventually become just as bad. Covid-19 did not eliminate enough humans from this Planet.
Very interesting. I commute daily too, my 35mi commute to work one way takes no longer than 45min.
@@denyspash Wow, consider me envious! Where do you live? I live in northern Pinellas County and my job is in St. Petersburg.
@@xixingpooh I live in Old Seminole Height and go down on 275 all the way to St.Pete Beach.
This is happening in our state because of out of staters moving in.
As a Florida native been here my whole life, traffic is getting crazy. Also seeing so many different state plates
Remember some are rental cars I rented a car with Missouri plates last week
The plates doesn't mean anything there are millions of transplants with a FL plate.
I live in florida my whole life, still do, and the changes that have been made over my life time has made me begin to hate it here. That “endless summer” feeling is gone, theres traffic everywhere, green spaces are being flatten to build another plaza, and the chance to even buy/ rent a decent place has become so expensive, its better to just stay with your parents. the charm is gone and its pushing Floridians out.
Floridian here... It sucks. It's not an easy thing to relocate, but I definitely have my sights set on moving out of here in the future. Not only are all the things discussed in this video sad and true, but the culture is terrible too. I would say that the state has a below average intelligence for the majority of the population living here.
The "It's apples to oranges" pun was ingenious.
Thank you!
In 1991 there were orange trees along I-75 between Tampa and Sarasota. Now there are new homes and warehouses.
And there is little open land between metro Tampa and metro Orlando
HAHAHA ! We lived in Fort Lauderdale until 2005, and can remember when each South Florida city was separated by "green spaces". Now, you can't tell the difference between cities, driving along the highway - just more houses, condos, strip malls, etc. TIME TO MOVE - but WHERE ?
The whole state is paved over. Looks like shit.
My partner and I in the organic citrus business abandoned our business. Thousands of acres of orange groves have been lost--NOT to developers but to a lethal greening disease that has caused orange trees to be killed off. Many grove owners have decided NOT to replant oranges, that take five or six years to produce profits. Why should they stay as orange growers, as long as the value of the land to developers exceeds the profits obtainable by growing fruit? Our Valencias and Navels are at their lowest levels since the 1940s. Organic citrus? Forget it. Only in California.
I remember lots of green open spaces and forest along I75 down to Ft. Meyers, and up I4. Now, it's becoming new development hell. I pray that north Florida doesn't end up like this.... still lot of prairie and woods up there.
@@MurakamiTenshi It will eventually. Over time it will.
I came from Texas to the Tampa area last November for a new job and a substantial raise in salary. After 9 months, the cushion I felt with the increased salary is almost already gone. I work for a Fortune 100 company. Almost everyone I work with has gotten to the point where they say if they have to suffer one more increase in living (insurance, for example, regularly increases by 20% and it's projected to increase by 30% next year), they will officially be upside down on their bills every month. I personally won't be able to make it another 6 months without at least a 15% raise. But, more than likely, I'll be one of the many middle class who will just get priced out of the market and will need to move to somewhere cheaper to make ends meet again. Kinda sucks.
lol texas is so much better at least when it comes to cost of living. i'd never move from texas to fl
update?
my home is paid off and it's cheaper to not carry insurance and just repair damage as it occurs.
I have lived in Florida most of my life (as of 2014 I was born in 2009) and I don't exactly live in the big cities where this is most noticeable, but I do notice that many of the trees in my neighborhood have been getting chopped down to build cookie cutter houses. It is quite sad and I hate to see the trees gone.
lol I was born in 87,... Florida used to be heavenly. It has become hell..
growing up in small town Florida was SO much better than moving to Orlando suburbs just to get jobs at the theme parks
My family has lived in Florida for 80 years. My huge mistake was not buying a house. But I was always a minimalist person with a time-consuming job and I was happy living in a small apartment. Rent increases were 2-5% per year, but often rents stayed the same for years. Then the NY-NJ-Cali folks started pouring in a couple of years ago. My rent quickly doubled. A bunch of new apartment complexes mushroomed, but they were all "luxury" units priced for affluent transplants and remote workers. Locals could not afford them. The older complexes jacked their rents in response, citing "market value." I saw fixed income retirees, hospitality/retail workers, and store/restaurant managers living in their cars, or rented U-Haul trucks, or camping. Getting a lease on local wages was impossible without roommates. So a lot of people had to live in hotels--more expensive but you don't need to qualify for a lease, that is, earn three times the monthly rent in monthly income. You're good if you already own a home. Otherwise, locals are in big trouble.
Thats all true. I didn't buy till I was 46 back in 2011 at one of the best times ever now my house is worth $200.000 more than when I bought & my mortgage is only $335,00 a month. It was never a plan to buy I just dumb lucked into doing it at the right time. Bout time I did something right.
TRUTH- my rent doubled in the past 10 years- $700 in 2013 and now $ 1475 in 2023- For the exact same apartment. I was a happy renter....didn't see this coming. Hoping to buy a home as soon as the market cools.
Good for you! I wish I had done the same!! Have friends who did as you did. They're in great shape now whereas I have to bail. The rents are so unpredictable that you sweat it out each year after signing a lease. Landlords can and do jack rents by as much as $1500-$1000/month. Warning to all moving here with the idea of renting. You may be able to afford it for a bit, but in a short time it will be roommate time.@@Diggerdog2nd
@martyfrank2905 - So that's who's affording these brand new apartments that go for between $2000 and about $3000 a month! I imagined the residents had to be double income couples and high salaried ones, at that. Hadn't thought about the remote workers with their out of state wages. I just figured they were buying, not renting. Trouble is, some of those remote workers are being called back to the office, so they may have to sell that single family home or get out of that apartment lease earlier than they planned. They were a little premature, expecting to be able to stay in Florida and work remotely for good.
Yup I had to live the motel life for a year as a teen and only got out thanks to section 8 giving us a good deal on an apt ($800 for a 3 bed apt) until I went to college. I left at the "right" time in 2018 for other job prospects and couldn't even contemplate returning now. My family is definitely screwed over too.
The rich destroyed Florida. I lived there for 20 years. Left in 2000 so glad I did.
2000 right around the time to leave Florida considering Jeb Bush was governor and the republican dynasty was about to begin. If you lived there from 1980-2000 you lived the best years in Florida.
Considering Florida has become Puerto Rica v.2.0. Most parts of Orlando, South Orlando, Kissimmee and Poinciana is so overcrowded. My once quit neighborhood in South-East Orlando has become a major hub. Nothing but traffic and retail. Disgusting.
Finally a floridian with balls who adresses the elephant in the room wich is the hundreds of thousands of hispanic immigrants who come here instead of complaining about fellow white anericans
As a native Floridian, I am honestly saddened by the amount of people moving to Florida or investing in Florida, and raising the costs of living for the people that have lived here all their lives and want to make something out of it. We are being INVADED by Californians and North Easterners, particularly people from New York, New Jersey, and Ohio. The worst part is many (not majority) of these people are not even moving here, they just purchase homes and treat it as an asset. I think it's about time the state does something and stops the massive migration/investment in the state, bc there will come a point when it is no longer sustainable. People are getting ruder and more violent, and quite frankly I can't blame them. The leaders need to do something about it before it's too late.
Florida isn’t what it was 30 years ago. With home prices, insurance costs, poor education system, and traffic issues it’s not worth it for many.
Of course it's not the same it was 30 years ago. Florida peaked in the late 90s. After that, it's been a race to the bottom. We now elect politicians who put their agenda over the people's needs.
I am a native. People ask me DAILY where I am from when they hear my accent. The incredible increase in prices has pushed a lot of natives out. I am probably going to leave when I retire because I will not be able to afford INSURANCE and my housing TAXES. It costs as much to live here in SWFL as it does in NY or CA now, but the wages are still way far behind. I am in healthcare and I have researched extensively the cost of living all over the country. They offer the same wages today that they did 10 years ago for someone that is experienced and starting at a new facility. Yet housing and other costs have more than doubled (tripled in some areas) in Florida.
We welcome you in Illinois. You might find southern IL to your liking, the climate, while not tropical, is still pretty warm and not much snow in winter.
@@lilsuzq32 I couldn't be forced to live in Illinois. I was actually born in Chicago and thankfully we moved out when I was a small kid. The democrats have ruined society and turned our country upside down. Everything that once was good is now bad (to them) and what was bad is now good (to them) it is disgusting. Make sure you get your booster shots and enjoy your lockdowns that are coming. They say it works. lol.
The Florida government :those running Florida have to do something URGENTLY,and I mean URGENTLY to protect the environment:fresh water :drinking water, contamination:what is the future for Florida .
This governor turned down 100 million for wastewater management so he could act the conservative tough guy. He's a real idiot.
This feature touches on an issue that people are grimly determined to ignore. The population increase isn't just in Florida - its everywhere. There are just flat too many people.
The problem is hitting the Southwest too - so many people there is a strain on the most needed resource (water), and tremendous growth of the heat island caused by development.
People need to get over this Family Farm mentality where they have 3, 4, 5 or more children and start thinking about what kind of world your kids will inherit. 🌎
The birth rate in the US and most western countries is below replacement rate. Western natives haven’t been replacing for a while now and that trajectory continues and really can’t be undone in the next few decades…..which brings us to immigration.
It is immigrants who reproduce the most, more than replacement numbers, but even they aren’t producing the numbers they used too. This is why immigration is encouraged even when it’s illegal. The elites need the next batch of slaves, and current westerners aren’t going to provide it but open borders will.
China and India have over a billion people. Nigeria and Africa as a whole's population is primed to boom. What you're suggesting is essentially America volunteering to be left behind.
The problem isn't that we shouldn't have more Americans, it's that the current economic system is predatory and makes it impossible for most to even consider that as a viable option.
Thanks for the video. I am a floridian born and raised . I currently live in jacksonville. It's so true. The first chance I can get to move . I'm out. It crowded, crime is unbelievable, and all our nature is gone and over run with condos and shopping centers , just disgusting
It has been like that for decades in california. I think thrashed is the best word for it.
Jacksonville is scum central anyway run don't walk to get out of there
@@walterpeebles295alright now all these Californians and new yorkers are coming here and are gonna bring their votes with them and mess up FL even more >:/ even though most of them are leaving their home states because of the policy’s there! Desantis isn’t my favorite and he is enabling these developers by them lobbying but just imagine if FL becomes like San Francisco or worse like i’m in Jacksonville too. It’s terrible, but i’m leaving before it gets that level of bad
@@walterpeebles295No trashed.
An unmentioned condition of life for many young people is the scarcity of good jobs. Very many are employed at more than one job, because employers do not want full time employees to whom they must offer job benefits, sick and vacation leave, paid holidays, health insurance, retirement benefits. Federal law allows employers to escape these responsibilities. The effect on our young workers is devastating. They have no upward mobility. They see no future for themselves. It is a disgraceful condition of life and can only lead to national decline.
I think the main cause of that is overpopulation and just so much competition because of it. Employers can replace people so easily for less pay these days.
I disagree with your assessment of FL. This is what I commented:
Your video rather degrades FL and I don't appreciate it! I moved to Florida in 1978, my husband's family have lived here for generations, he himself was born and raised in St Augustine, and I raised my daughter in St. Augustine. I loved FL the first time I visited (years before I moved here) and I love FL now! Yes, overall it has changed, but there are still many pockets of "old Florida" that the people who have made comments (at least the comments I've read) don't realize or acknowledge. My family and I moved from St Augustine to a nearby small town ~ 5 yrs ago and love it! The ocean is an hour away, the property taxes are low, and we live on a big, beautiful lake. It's only a short drive to St Augustine and a few other "cities." Floridians who speak "poorly" of FL should stop complaining and appreciate what we have. If you don't like living in a larger city with traffic and more expensive real estate, then move to a smaller town. No place is "perfect" so prioritize what is most important to you. FL is the best state in the USA and I would NEVER want to live anywhere else!
Addendum: And, we don't put up with that transgender nonsense! And, we have the best Gov! And, there are NO state taxes! .... I could go on and on!
A note to you about your comment about young people here and upward mobility: My daughter is working hard and just bought a nice home here in a small town! That's what young people should be doing - working hard. That's why the USA - overall - is being degraded - because of lazy people who don't want to work and just want handouts. I worked hard in my life for what I have and I and my daughter are better people for it. Do watch the news about the rioting in major cities outside of FL? People spitting in the faces of police officers, setting fires to local businesses, looting them, etc etc!
@@DrSharonFair I disagree with your disagreement on the assessment.... this truly is the reality for most FL youth. You really can't turn a blind eye to it. This should not be the way for 99% of us. Listen, people have no problem working. I know plenty of genuine, hard workers who go above and beyond. The problem is you need to actually get something in return, you can't work for no opportunity, otherwise there comes a point where, well... there is NO point
Have you visited any of these major cities? Can you name one? Have you seen it for yourself? I think this is too much hysteria from Fox News. You guys say "major cities" and you parrot everything from Fox News and you cannot ever name a single example
You share an anecdote where you assume if no one can do what your daughter did, they just aren't killing themselves enough. And I'm sorry, but the world should not work this way. We can all work, we all have a part to play. But this cutthroat "hustle" attitude being shoved down our throats, that, I have a serious problem with that.
@@DrSharonFairyour opinion doesnt matter boomer
I’ve lived here my whole life and I hate it… there’s too many people.. too many drugs…. And horrible schools!!! I want to move north!!
I am moving ohio
I’ve lived in south Florida my entire life and while wages in the state have always been low, cost of living was relatively cheap. Population boom has turned $200k homes into $500k homes. $800 rentals are now $1800 rentals. It’s especially bad since all the work from home people from out of state moved here. Home values increases have driven property taxes and insurance through the roof. So even if you own a home, the mortgage has gone up significantly. I used to love my state but now I’ve realized that moving somewhere more affordable is likely going to happen in the future.
taxes only go up when there's an assessment, which should only be at a time of purchase, so those won't go up, insurance may have gone up due to hurricane damage going up rapidly, some homes are not even insurable now
@@leok7193 counties do assessments every few years. If you bought a house in 1978 for 40 grand, you’re not paying taxes on a property appraised at 40 grand in 2023.
I made an expensive mistake coming back here. LOW pay, INSANE drivers, and did I say LOW PAY? Three goals to complete and I go north.
Good get going. Yankees have ruined it
Emphasis on the drivers lol. Out of all the states I’ve lived in, the most dogshit drivers I’ve seen were all in Tampa.
@@CoverBrazilian I agree. All of the international people from mostly Spanish speaking nations that drive like this. Then all the young people drive like this too. They all have lost touch with reality and are all selfish pricks.
When I moved to Florida as a kid the state had 6 Million people & New Jersey had more residents. Today that is the population of the Metropolitan Miami area alone!
Enough-Said.
I've lived in Florida for as long as I can remember. Grew up here. I've watched as more and more of our natural beauty got destroyed by ugly and cheap low quality plazas and complexes that start falling apart within 5 years. I saw a patch of hundred+ year old forest destroyed for a cheap, crammed together houses that cost an arm and a leg. Why can't people fix fheir own states instead of moving here and ruining ours?
Sounds like you're doing a good job ruining it yourselves by making growth first, second, third, and last, and no tax revenue to deal with the predictably ever-increasing infrastructure needs.
What are you talking about? Where inlive all these recent immigrants are from latin america. I cant stand them
Reminds me of Cape Cod in Massachusttes. Lived there 20 years. It's a tourist destination and in only 20 years time. It lost all it's charm. Became hard as hell to get around in summer and we ended up with house prices beyond reach for normal people. RIP Florida.
I was born and raised in Tampa Bay. Let at 23 and recently moved back at 34. It's seriously overcrowded and wages are not high enough. This video is accurate.
I realized this a few years ago and as hard as it was to accept, I decided to move from FL. The housing market is super tight, and the pay is nowhere close to keeping up with rent or mortgage payments. Now, all condo owners are taking a beating due to new mandatory state imposed regulations. Not to mention almost all homeowners insurance companies have evacuated the state so the few that are left are imposing up to 100% price increases. Auto insurance is outrageous and with mortgage rates and post covid inflation if you re not making over 200k a year Florida does not have much for you as far as living there. Of course they will always welcome your vacation dollars.
Thats such bs it does not cost 200k to be able to live comfortably in Florida. In the last 3 years ive made 75k, 115k, 50k, and next year over 100k and ive been doing fine and still able to live life fine in Florida. And I live in a rich area in Miami.
The challenge for Florida is affordable housing. Lots of rich retirees flock to Florida. When they get sick, they need adequate nursing staff, but nurses probably can't afford to live near work. In the end, the staff they get is young and inexperienced. As staff age and want to marry/start a family/buy their own home, they probably move to another state.
@@erwina4738 The avg household income here is less then you earn, no wonder you are able to do well here.
the real problem is abusive minority nursing staff. Happens every single day, read the paper@@marymccluer1630
My family came to Florida in 1820 (dad's side) and 1842 (mom's side). Pioneers, all of them. It was a wilderness back then. My family passed down all the tales of what it was like to live through those times. At almost 70 years of age, I've seen a lot of changes here myself, but you and I cannot really imagine living here with no infrastructure whatsoever. No lawmen, no electricity, no schools. You were totally on your own. I tell you what, they were tough and rugged people.
They were completely free also.
The first visit of Florida in 1972 had more natural habits than urbanization. There were a abundant of orange groves and swamps all over Florida. In 1980 on my second visit, urban spawns grew rapidly and orange groves fenced up and shrunk to smaller arceages. In the 1990s, the several swamp area and orange groves replaced by cements with housing and commerical development. The old traditional town area torned down and changed to retired retirement communities. Today's Florida has more urbanization than dying natural habitats. In the future, Florida will have forty million people in dense crowd, and will surpass California.👍 😂👍
The population density in Florida is much higher than in California.
I was raised in Florida when Miami had a population of 250,000 for the whole of Dade County! Today the wetlands (Hammocks) are gone, the Glades is dying, the poor and downtrodden neglected even more than in the past! The inequality of rich to poor is increasing as social services are almost non-existent. Education is one of the worst in the nation, healthcare for the uninsured is a disaster. Getting welfare, food stamps or Medicaid is very limited as Florida doe not have a state income tax. Florida has the lowest payout for unemployment compensation and workers compensation. Florida wants business so it keeps the wages and benefits low. I lived in an efficiency apartment on Miami Beach in the 50’s-60’s which cost $69/mo with utilities. The exact same apartment rents for $1300/mo plus utilities. Miami Beach had a population of 39,000 today 90,000 within the same land size. No one talks about crime, homelessness, poverty, hunger, just the Miami night life. No one talks about the racial and ethic violence simmering. Remember the largest state employer is the Department of Corrections with 143+ major institutions. It is the third largest Corrections system in the country. Lastly Florida is running out of water for humans and animals as the aquifers are drained by increasing population and seawater intrusion. Florida woke up this year to the highest home insurance cost in the nation, 400% higher than the next highest state if you can get the insurance as most of the companies have left the state.
Well said.
Also, apply this to Tennessee. Our state is built for poverty.
Texas also has a massive problem with soaring traffic congestion, pollution, crime, RE prices due to the thousands of people moving in every week.
And enjoying that nice hot weather, I'll bet.
Texas is about 4.5 geographically larger than Florida, even though it's western half is mostly desert.
Fracking and water contamination. Time to hold oil companies accountable
Texas has land Florida does not
@@twostop6895Texas is big but things are too spread apart which is wasteful
Went to Florida in the 50s and loved it, but now it is a nightmare! 😢
The world was better in 50s population wise
Please don't come.
I remember my Florida town it was peaceful and quiet and everyone knew each other in the early 2000s. Now with population increase = more crime and traffic. Another thing in the video that it didn’t cover is we have some of the worst drivers down here in the U.S. People getting into car accidents all the time.
The fact that there are people who actually live there and move there by choice just amazes me, given all the massive storms they get. It seems like every year somewhere in Florida gets destroyed by a massive hurricane.
Yep, though nowadays climate change also seems to be wrecking all the other 'desirable' locales as well (w/ chronic forest fires, droughts, heat waves, blizzards, tornadoes, rising sea levels, etc.).
Florida is a big state. If Miami get hit by a storm Orlando and Tampa won’t even get rain. I live in Miami we haven’t been directly hit by a storm since 2005 and that was only a weak storm that knocked out power for a week.
This has always baffled me too. It's just a matter of time for everyone there. Like sure, visit, but live there full time? Not smart..
@@LowenKM"climate change"? Even the weather gets politicized. Wake up and see the real issues.
Mid west.... they could see a tornado on the field and continue building their house back. The difference is they dont have the ocean.
Yes it happened to California years ago too . The tourist service working towns boomed , got so popular and rents go sky high . It’s sad for the locals and working class . The rich are fine but the others pay the price and slip into poverty or the streets . Crazy world these days all over . Nothing is the same . Each state has its issues just like each living soul . Bless us all .
exactly. the problem that New York and California are gonna have is that it’s not the poor people that are emigrating out of the state. When the citizens in the high class leave, who’s gonna pay for these government programs that benefit the poor? They’re going to have to disband leaving a lot of poorer citizens in need of these programs that were there before and don’t have funding anymore because of the rich leaving and their tax money with them. We’re going to see this play out and it’s not going to be good for NY & CA in the coming years..
@@foxsden12 historically it was mostly lower income people leaving California, only recently has it gotten to be about equal between low and high income earners. The idea that it's just high income earners leaving is just factually untrue. IDK about New York though.
@@squirlez6349 Well speaking out of previous context, do you really think it’s the very poor (homeless, unemployed). That have the funds to move out of CA?
@@foxsden12 Don't think squirlez was talking about homeless and unemployed people. The working also have trouble affording a move, but if they have family or friends to move in with, it can be arranged at times.
Its white replacement
As a born and raised Floridian, the places that used to take 2-3 minutes to drive to now takes 20-30 minutes. Every green space is turning into an apartment complex and the encroachment on the Everglades is seriously affecting the wildlife. If people are planning on moving here, don’t. If it was 10 years ago I would say it’s a nice place to move but the Florida now is a lot worse. It’s sad to see my childhood areas just turning into copy/paste bland buildings and people moving here are not very nice people. It’s like the worst crowds of people just suddenly decided to flock here like Florida will solve all of their problems. And the gentrification happening is also insane
You have to shake your head when you hear people actually brag about how people are moving to their state. That is not a good thing folks!!
My parents bought their future retirement home in Titusville in the early eighties. We had vacationed there often in my teens, it seemed lovely at the time (mid 1970’s). When they decided to move there permanently I went with. I was 19 and quite not sure what to do with my life but turned out Florida was for me a nightmare. No real jobs and no culture to speak of. I literally packed my bags and went back to Chicago, I adored my parents but I just couldn’t see my future that way. I unfortunately had to spend all my vacation time visiting them and my distaste for the state only grew. The last time I was there was to return my mothers ashes to my dads crypt. Oh yah I eventually had to rescue her from Florida as well, their healthcare system is rotten. I gave her three good years up here that she would not have had in one of their so called nursing homes.
Why is their healthcare bad?
@@amylee9 did you not read or comprehend the post??? Their healthcare killed my dad made my mother ill to the point I had to bring her back here to Chicago , and probably made my aunt’s condition worse, and who knows about my uncle who,also perished prematurely there.
You choose to live in Chicago over Florida?
@@richthomson6174 forever and ever thank you, I would never return for any amount of money the state sucks snot
@@laurachristianson1688thanks get more people to do the same.
Exact sane terminology as they used 40 years ago when I came here. Currently every piece of land that is not built on, no matter how poorly suited, is being built on. The housing shortage is caused by private equity holding so many housing units empty to help sell overpriced new units. So many secrets now, there would be instant massive exit if known.
@jdsnotemanI think he means that private land/house owners are keeping their rent houses and apartments/lots empty to lower supply and increase demand so as to drive up price
I am a seventh generation North Floridian. We didn't mind so much when they were ruining South Florida but now they have started encroaching here. The Villages are a tragedy.
Ive never lived anywhere but Florida. My dad was born and raised in Florida as well. The past 10 years have been the biggest change ive ever seen. I’ll always love my state, but things are really getting bad now.
Nothing left to love. They've turned it into california. Soon everything will be illegal except marijuana will be legal. Clown world.
Wait it out
Florida comes back... It always does. Sunshine! The Beachcomber
As a florida native, I maintain that everything started getting bad here in Tampa, after Tom Brady moved here 😆 then covid's mad dash to buy up cheap housing made it worse.
Earlier than that, around 2012 is when things started getting ridiculous in Tampa. Lived in the Tampa St Pete Clearwater area from 2006-2019.
I noticed a change during covid but
Slowly..our home has been run over by Floridian wanna bes. Most of my friends are leaving here because it's just too crowded and not the same.
The traffic must be hell there now!
That's odd because everything improved in the Boston area after he left.
@@mpm313it’s like the northeast Cali and Texas are sending all the bad ppl down here and all the good people are leaving Florida no seriously crime, ideas, and peoples personalities are reflecting that
Not just Florida. The world added 6 billion people in just the last 100 years. While it took thousands of years just to reach 2 billion. That is an insane amount of population growth in a short period of time.
BLAME THE USA, for giving away free food & medical care after WW2 - thereby cutting the death rate in the 3rd World. And also for allowing many of those folks to immigrate HERE, and start large families.
People need to stop overbreeding….but saying that is politically incorrect. Do the math, Earth can only support so many
That slow early growth was due to: low birth rates, high death by disease, high death by conflicts/wars, high working condiction death rates. In just the past 150yrs successful birth rates vastly increased and death rate is almost non-existant, same goes with death by disease, working condictions improved, the amount of conflicts/wars reduced and the amount of people involved per reduced.
Antibiotics, fertilizers, oil
@@jandraelune1 In short. We have basically beaten much of the natural selection process. On the other hand however, it seems that in the recent decades birth rate have decreased dramatically. And while the birth rate for the poorer parts of the world is still high, there seems to be few societies where its birth rate doesn't effectively collapse when it gets rich. And one of the reasons is exactly that higher cost of living has made people think twice about having more kids. So it'll be interesting to see what happens in the future.
This was made incredibly professional and you hit all of the notes concerned Floridians have with the current issues. Great job.
THANK YOU. Nobody talks about this. I've lived in in south Florida all my life, and the cost of living has changed so drastically and so fast its baffling. To give an example my the value of my parent's house went up 20% in the 15 years they've owned it, but people are buying houses half the size for twice the price. Which sounds great as a seller, but you won't be able to move anywhere. Homeowners insurance has nearly tripled in the past 3 years, a drive that took me 7 minutes 3 years ago now takes me 20-25 minutes. I love it here but if you can't get approved for a half decent house with a six figure salary, what are people supposed to do.
The rent in my area is approaching 3K a month and the jobs in the area pay 12-14 an hour. Not that they hire you anyway, for a supposedly great and growing economy. Unsustainable, and leaving is a top priority.
It’s been really sad watching my once small town slowly become more and more overpopulated with half of the forests gone, traffic backing up the roads when at one point that could never even have been imagined, and all of the housing costs being driven up driving out so many people who’ve been here for decades
Florida native here, born in Miami, I got gentrified out of miami, moved to bradenton, gentrified there, moved to st petersburg on the water , my apt cost 750$ in 2011 for water front in treasure island. That same place is 3000$ a month. so now I moved to Stuart FL, and in the last 3 years, the old quaint port salerno fishing town in stuart is the last place of old florida. All the franchises and even a Costco is moving in. It feels just like any other generic POS city in america. All thanks to Transplants, but oh lets not forget of the 500,000 Guatemalans that have snuck in under the open border policy in last three years. Golden gate is now little Guatemala, they are all Illegal and all ride electric bikes, causing traffic wrecks and death because they dont pay attention when cruising around. I am sad this has become what it has. It is absolutely raped of its charm and culture here.
Orlando used to be country now its all hispanics. wberyone is blaming northerners but hispanics make it worse
I have seen a lot of Florida license plates popping up here in the Atlanta suburbs (and I'm not talking about traveling through on the expressway). It seems a lot of Floridians are moving here, probably because it is somewhat more affordable, but still isn't all that affordable.
I saw the old oranges plate while running errands near Montrose PA/Binghamton NY area the other week, and I see many more around Mount Bethel NJ and Lancaster PA. They're flooding northward. I think we may see a reverse snowbird migration soon, summers too hot to handle so native floridians flock up to the tristate.
I really enjoyed living in Florida for the past 12 years, but it's time for new adventures. It is surprising how quickly my house appreciated in the 9 years I owned it. I'm trading in the hot swampy summers for winter time fun in Colorado. Moving from the lowest state to the highest. While there is no state income tax, the cost of insurance is getting crazy that it actually offsets any tax advantages - depending on your income level. I have had to shop for a new home insurance provider twice as both previous companies have left the state. Auto insurance is also harder to get and more expensive than other states. Paradise isn't cheap.
Colorado is a cold miserable place to live. I'll take 3 months of Florida heat any day to 9 months of colorado cold. Believe me, it's cold.
No it doesn’t . My family and I are one of 1,100 that moves here to Florida every day to escape the Nasty Fly over Boring Mid west. Having lived in snow and mosquito infested Minnesnowda. It literally broke parts of my lower back and my wife’s having to shovel the weekly snow fall close to 9 months a year beginning weeks before Halloween. My back is doing much better now. You are doing a bad trade. I found no joy in “ winter time fun” that you speak of ice fishing or skiing ⛷️ just injuring myself and freezing among too many Karen’s in the center of the country with no oceans and no fresh fish but frozen. I grow my own fruits and vegetables that’s not happening in Colorado everything dies in winter.
Income taxes saves us $800 per month. And our home has appreciated $260,000 since the 2 years we have lived here in Florida. That offsets a little home insurance payment by far. Big deal 2 insurance companies are gone how many are left to service 23 million people ?
Auto insurance for us with perfect records remains the same. Helps too when you have excellent credit.
The weather is perfection for 10 months out of the year with low humidity. And your body adjusts anyhow. Maybe not if you are obese?
The sunsets 🌅 over the water to me are better than long cold miserable winters that you can’t go out of the house from because you’ll freeze to death if your car goes off the road in ice buried in a snow drift. Don’t miss not having a trunk load of winter supplies like a shovel and blankets to stay warm if the car breaks down or slips off the ice into the snow and no body sees me for days. When you get older you get more sense I guess. I’m 44 and that cold weather crap is in my rear view mirror for ever. I’ll never get back the 21 years we wasted in snow fly over country.
@@pointnIaugh To each their own. But, it's really more like 9 months of Florida heat and 3 months of nice weather. We just stayed in our house most of the year.
@@JasonTaylor-po5xc I hear you. It's only bad for me in July, August, and September.......(Like now)
@@pointnIaugh It's been super hot since mid-April and it won't ease up until mid-October. November through March are normally nice, depending on the year. This is normally when the snowbirds come down.
I used to live in Broward (Fort Lauderdale to be exact) and moved a couple of years ago. I miss it a lot. Florida is an amazing state. But wealth gap is increasing more and more. And the cost of living is becoming far too high. As much as I didn’t want to leave, I knew I’d never be able to afford a home there. At least not one I’d be happy with. My hope is that eventually I can sell the home I own now and be able to move back and actually afford something one day. Florida is the best place I’ve ever lived minus the cost of living. Sad to see what’s happening
The wealth gap is especially acute in Florida but is really a nation-wide problem. We have so many billionaires, but we have more national debt than GDP, we have the world's most expensive yet least effective healthcare system, we have failing public schools, high rates of gun violence, unaffordable housing, failing infrastructure. How can a nation that generates so much wealth fail in so many ways?
I just went to Fort Lauderdale for a new job and I couldn’t believe how run down it was, my parents said it used to be beautiful but I think that’s happening in most cities, sad :(
Thank you for making this video. We need the word to come out and be spread amongst our friends and community. As a Floridian, I thank you.
Have a dear friend who moved from Colorado to Orlando in 2019. At that time Florida was a lot cheaper. She bought a gorgeous house in a gated neighborhood 20 minutes from Disney. At that time her HOA was $400,00 a month. I don’t know how she is doing now, I just hope she is okay with the high cost of living.
The whole country wants to laugh at us Floridians complaining about the overcrowding but don’t understand what they’re doing by coming. Our rent jumped $400 from 2021-2022. We were paying $1800 a month. I was the only one working as an OTR truck driver while my wife took care of the kids and the house. If she got a job it would’ve basically paid for the daycare and that’s it. Our neighbor moved and ended up selling to a New Yorker for $499,999 cash. Our house went for $280,000 so we considered trying to buy it from our landlord cause we loved our neighborhood. After 3 years we created a strong bond with our neighbors. Anyways, the home owner wanted $350,000. Couldn’t do it. We moved into a camper to save money. I moved to Florida in 2006. My wife is a Florida native out of Dade City. Our kids are born and raised in Polk County…..now we’re considering moving out of the state. We don’t want to but it might be what’s best for our family….
Probably has more to do with inflation and the war in Ukraine. Everything is getting more expensive everywhere... blame the democraps.
@@Alec0124 has a lot to do with Desantis too, he has no clue what he's doing.
boohoo
@@Alec0124all that damn money printing and pretending to fund the war
@@Alec0124 You're not the brightest bulb on the tree. Florida's problems have nothing to do with the Ukraine.
The ice cap over Greenland is melting. Sea levels are rising.
In 50 years, all of Florida will be 30 feet underwater.
They said that 50 years ago.......
BS
Ever heard of the Dams they used now for many years in the Netherlands? It does keep the water out of the country very well.
Of course they will start building these dams in florida too as there is way more Millionaires and Billionaires living in florida than the Netherlands.
many in Florida don't know science
I'm born and raised Floridian out of Melbourne, Brevard County. My fathers' been here since 1959; granddad was head hunted by Boeing to work for NASA back then. Over the last 5 to 10 years, I've watched my home town and state be progressively destroyed!
The overdevelopment of the area I'm is ATROCIOUS. Dad said it started years ago along the Indian River. It's dead now; 15 ft deep river, now like 8 ft because the bottom is 7 ft of SLUDGE, and most people use it for motor boating instead of sailing. Canaveral Jeti was put in years ago for the cruise ships; that's messed up the natural flow of sand onto the beaches, thus eroding everything from Canaveral to Sebastian Inlet. Now south of Melbourne is an area called Grant-Valkyria; the developers are mowing down MILES of field and forest for their planned "Emerald City"; these houses aren't even built, and they're listing them for sale anywhere from $400k to $500k STARTING! They're plowing small strips of land along the river to make "Margaritaville" (TRASH ASS DRINK). Everywhere around town, it's new apartment here, new apartments there, AT $1800 TO $2200 A MONTH AND THEY AREN'T EVEN BUILT!! They keep building on the west side of i-95, MORONS. This goes to you people in Viera, north of Melbourne: YOU BUILT A HOUSE ON AND LIVE ON A FLOOD PLAIN!! 1 HURRICANE, YOU'RE FLOODED. As for land prices, I just check Zillow; north end of the county, town called Mims; 2 years ago August a 10 acre plot of land sold for $120k; not a year later, May 2022, BASTARD PUTS IT UP ON MARKET FOR $600K!!! REALLY ASSHOLE?!?! 400% increase. Oh, north of Melbourne is Lake Washington; the over population has caused algae blooms in the lake and it's poisoning the water out there. All the people who over populate the area are from out of state, WHO ARE THEY BLAMING?! THE FARMERS AND RANCHERS ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE LAKE WHO'VE BEEN THERE FOR YEARS! And this is just what's happened to the land.
People. People from out of state. People from Jersey, New York, and New England. They came down here initially as snow birds, stay for winter, leave when things warm up. Every year now for the last several years, fewer go back. They keep fleeing higher taxes and bad economic conditions in their states up north. REALITY CHECK YOU FREAKING LOCUSTS, YOU CREATED THE BAD CONDITIONS WITH THE WAYS YOU VOTED!!! You have the gull to come down here, buy everything up, take up all the jobs and housing, drive up prices, vote for HIGHER TAXES, and BITCH AND COMPLAIN ABOUT AND INSULT US LOCALS TO OUR FACES?!?! Not to mention be here for less than a year, and you think you should run for public office?! Seriously, every election for the last 8 years, the Democratic candidate is a DAMNED NEW YORKER!!! It's why they don't win. Socially too! Rudest, meanest, snootiest, and UGLIEST people I've ever had the misfortune of knowing. I'd go to college and get constantly called a, and I quote: "inbred, bucktooth, hillbilly, hick". Then all the woke istaphobe bs. Guess what; sticks and stones ya buckets of shark bait. All this coming from out of staters who are self proclaimed communists and socialists.
Now their complaints! It's too hot, there's too many bugs, locals are too mean and racist, why don't they have all the luxury services I had in New York, and is goes on and ON AND ON!!! Listen, if ya don't like it, GO BACK! I-95 goes both ways.
Next, these New Yorkers and New Englanders are DUMB. I mean devoid of any and all forms of common sense. Don't mess with or feed the gators. If you take, put, or let your small pet, or God forbid child, near an open body of inland water, you risk being a tragic story on the evening news. Seen it too many times; most known example was that poor toddler that was eaten by a gator over by disney (screw them btw, I want Walt unthawed and back NOW). And then hurricanes. The news down here leading up to any storm is total bullshit. THEY FEARMONGER THE HELL out of any tropical depression and higher. AND YOU NORTHERNERS FREAKIN BUY IT!!!😂 It's hilarious! A Catagory 1 and ya run for the hills! Honestly for us locals, it's entertaining. Simple: don't live on the beach or the water. If it's a cat 1 or 2, you're fine; unless you're the wicked witch of the west, or in your case, the north, so proceed! Cat 3 close the shutters and tie down; 4 and 5, bug out! Personally, I'm HOPING just the right hurricane! Send you yorker packing back north AND flood some of the land on the other side of 95; that'll teach ya to build on a flood plain.
All in all I'm sad I'm losing my hometown and state. The developers can pound sand and the out of staters, specifically New York and New England, well there's no words in the english lexicon or in any other language on God's green Earth than could come even a quintillionth close to describing the immeasurable and insurmountable level of loathing, contempt, ire, disgust, and outright pure, justified, unfiltered, unadulterated and direct HATRED I experience every nanosecond that you, THE PLAGUE, are here destroying MY HOME. I would say go ruin your own home, but you already accomplished that. You know the reputation of "FLORIDA MAN". We're CRAZY, heh heh heh.
Real
Salute from Titusville
I moved to Davie, Florida in 1987. It's unbelievable how much has changed since then. There was no I-75, it was Alligator Alley and State Road 84. There was no I-595. Weston was Indian Trace. There's no land to build to the west anymore so contractors are building vertically by buying out old businesses and neighborhoods. Rents are sky high and new condos/townhomes costs are crazy. I-95 has expanded to 6-7 lanes EACH WAY with newly constructed $$$ express lanes! I bought a house in 1999 for $116,000. It's value today is over $500,000. If I moved here today I could not afford to be here.
I recently moved to Florida from NY because my mom got married and needed someone to take over her condo. I’ve been absolutely shocked by the low wages especially compared to NY. I’m struggling to find a job that pays a decent living wage. The cost of living here is basically the same as where I lived in Brooklyn. I simply do not understand how anyone can afford to live here. Im lucky to receive a significant break on rent from my mom but otherwise I could not stay here. My guess is that many residents are retired so they don’t rely on income from local jobs. The social safety net here is also poor compared to NY but I expected that. I’ve found the culture to be confusing. Almost everyone I meet is from somewhere else. It’s hard to get a sense of native Floridian culture (although I will say everyone down here is very friendly and has an interesting backstory). It’s a beautiful state and I wish it well but frankly this experience has not been pleasant and I would prefer to move back north as soon as I’m financially stable. (I think I may be more amenable once winter starts, I came here late spring and the summer heat has been unbearable. I’m told it’s been unusually hot even for Florida, probably due to climate change. I don’t know how people tolerate it! At least in northern winters you can put on a coat and gloves and still enjoy outdoor activities. That’s barely possible here when the “feels like” temperature is over 100)
The incongruency between wages and housing costs make it difficult for many young adults working in the area to afford to start families--they will likely move away when they want to buy a home. That is a problem for healthcare and other industries; they won't be able to retain their best workers and they'll have high turnover. All the wealthy people retiring in Florida who don't want rift-raft anywhere near should consider what may happen if they wind up in the local hospital with a bunch of young, inexperienced staff. In that situation, money will only get you so far.
Ugh I couldn’t agree with you more! I’m from CT and feel the same way, I can not acclimate to here it all, the best part is how nice the beaches are but it’s so not for me to live here
Lived in FL my whole life. It was not "unusually hottter" here. It's normal. August being the hottest month of the year.
climate change.. LOL! Lived here my whole life, it's no hotter than usual. Yes summer is hot. Winter is amazing. And yes unless you are working for a government entity, contractor or retired there's no future here.
@@johndoe-ek6vl Hey John, please explain why property insurance id drying up if there's no climate change. Good luck with that.
The 40k that moved out was all blue collar workers.
That couldn't afford to live here anymore.
You forgot the SKY high home owners insurance, along with WIND, and FLOOD polices.
Lack of services will be Florida's decline.
We just moved from Tampa Florida after 11 years, by choice. Could not wait to leave when my daughter graduated high school. We got out of Florida by the skin of out teeth and are now living in Wisconsin. So happy we did!! No more hurricanes, termites, alligators, hot humid miserable weather, and sky rocket insurance . On top of that my daughter can attend a university that values free speech. Summers in Wisconsin are so much nicer than the winters in Florida. The people here are much nicer and living the good life. We are not blue collar workers, but PhDs.
@@SheriLynn3867good for you....all the best...
I live in Manatee county Florida and we have a bunch of crooked politicians in the pockets of the developers here and it is so over populated you can't even move here any more, the infrastructure is not keeping up the good thing is my property value has gone to the moon. I have lived in the warm climate for over 40 years I am retired and I don't think I can afford to stay here I may have to go back to cold country. This is one statement I used to hate hearing people say, it is welcome to Florida and now go home.
Thank you for not only bringing up the fact that families are stuck in the trap of living in hotels, but also for ending on it for maximum impact. No one is talking about the school buses adding hotels to their routs All over the country. No one Anywhere is taking about how the systemic lockdown destroyed the most vulnerable aspects of all of American society.
Who the hell can afford to live in a hotel over an apartment?
I grew up in Florida during the 1970’s. It has obviously changed dramatically and we left in 2019. I’m sure there are still places that have the old Florida charm but most of that has been paved over with strip malls and McMansions. I remember it getting cold during the winter, even down to the 20’s and a couple of times we got snow but lately the winter is just a less warm version of summer.
I live in Florida and I know, we lost our winters. Back in the 80’s, it got cold in October. Now, it never gets cold in October. We may get pockets of cool weather when it gets down to 55 degrees at night but within a day or two, it’s back to being hot and humid. Last year, we had just a few nights here and there of 55 degree overnights. It was nice in the day with a high of 72. But it don’t last long in South Florida.
You are so right about the weather, it's hotter every year and we are lucky to get a few weeks relief from the heat.
I remember South Florida getting cold in the 90s and even seeing frost on our car one morning. As the urban sprawl spread over more fields and lakes, it changed the local weather. If you go camping in the Everglades during the winter, you can still wake up to some chilly mornings.
Born and raised here and love it. Very frustrating how by the time I was of age to start considering buying a home the economy goes to crap and all these transplants show up.
There are lots of ways to buy a home. I can name 5 that use other people money.
You can buy an acre of land for $40,000 Live in a shed and build as you can afford. It may take a few years, but the land is yours. People have forgotten how older generations also struggled to get a home, but they did it bit, by bit.
@CraftEccentricity LMAO yeah good luck with that. You're talking about land pricing from 10-20+ years ago (excluding post-Great Recession for a few years).
These days, land anywhere near a place worth living in, is 6 figures, sans dwelling. Live in a f*cking shed? LMAO get f*cking real.
The problem with Florida is that everyone wants to live on the coasts. So the coasts are overpopulated,yet the central north and panhandle are scarcely populated . Cause even the central part close to Lake Okachobee is poor . If it was not for Disney World;the Orlando metro area would not be populated and growing