Grew up in Miami from 1957, the old Florida that I loved is gone, now live in Sarasota

@@davidpetri4502 Sarasota has now turned into shizit too!

@@timboc105 Sarasota is indeed a blossoming nightmare. But it's still beautiful. So is Miami, the Everglades, and the Keys. People that never knew what it used to be down here are still loving it for what it is today, and they are building everywhere and anywhere they can to absorb the demand. The weather is still the weather and the water is still the water (when there's not red tide!).

@MoMoMyPup10 Camped at Watson place and Darwins place and Mormons Island a couple of times each. Hidden paradise not for the weak..YUPPERS! 😁✌️

Oh no!! So sorry to hear this ..haven't visited yet gate this about beautiful Florida hello fr TEXAS 🇨🇱🤎

Teddy! Wish we had him now.

I've been here since 2006 and have just recently been catching up on the history here and the backdrop for the creation of cities and islands. It's been mesmerizing. And watching this now even this 'newbie' can list a dozen things they didn't cover. The state has so much history in such a short time it's really amazing, and I suspect this is just the cliff notes version of it all.

Where would you come to?

Yes, I was born in Florida and know I was born in the right state. Can't stand the cold. As a child I used to wish that Florida would just break off from the US and we could become our own island nation.

@@debrahelmlinger6256 and I still think that should happen let us become our own nation

@@debrahelmlinger6256 Only problem is, Florida isn't an island.

@@debrahelmlinger6256 I would rather be barefoot and poor in Florida than be a millionaire in Vermont.

Yep. And not one thing has been updated since 1950 including the roads.. Unkess you count the speed bumps ever 50 ft. Crime? Off the charts and most cities have adopted the "send a social worker" type of "defunding". No winter heating costs but your AC will be on day & night for 8 months a year. Have fun.. They pay in sunshine too.

With the hurricanes and even the typical thunderstorms, high humidity, relentless heat and sun, I don't think I would want to live in a mobile home in Florida.

You gotta pay to play!

It's horrible. What are you talking about? Much better in Miami or New York.

You can have the tornados, flooding and hurricanes.

Balmy 69, but foggy.

In the heat of Florida summers, central Kansas looks amazing.

Na stay up there to much of northern people coming here wit their way of living n can't adapt to the Florida living

Come on down!

Now imagine that cold turned into heat… 130 degrees on the sand yea try and go to the beach 😂

I guess ill never be a Floridian. I'm not up for that. Lol

@@ginac895 See you in winter🌴

LOL

@@trueblue65hlt92 See you next winter. 👍

Remember many nights in the summer with a fan next to my bed to stay some what cool...

Ridiculous yes, living in Tampa to visit a unique pristine environment, have to travel at least 2 or so hours. I understand it use to be all uninhabitable pine forests and swamp, but central and South FL been far from pristine unfortunately. Development keeps encroaching upon all the unprotected areas, the state really should/ needs to buy up more land than than it presently is in order to protect biodiversity, water resources, etc

They put hi rises on every open lot

I've been thinking of moving to st Pete or clearwater in the future. I'm in Indiana now

It’s got it’s perks some areas are nice some not so much. I like where I live but I don’t love it. Florida has a lot of drugs homeless not too much of an issue only in certain areas. St. Pete is nice when it’s not being ruined by red tide and dead fish. Florida is a sunny place for shady people but I can’t see myself living anywhere else

hi im the sicko that still wears a mask because im looney tunes duuuuuh

It cost the same in shitty Ireland. In the backass of nowhere houses cost that much

God bless America!!!

Brah come to Sydney Australia, $650K a.u.d. will get you pretty much a crackhouse in a borderline 3rd world suburb... welcome to the area.... last time it was affordable for the average person to own a condo on Sydney harbour was back in 1942 in ww2 when the Japanese were bombing the harbour with submarines .... just saying

Look for a fixer upper

@Derrick Bridges The V1 Rockets did not carry a man to space

Also there were several hard freezes that destroyed entire crops so they start moving the groves further south down around lake okeechobee and further

The groves have been decimated from disease

Orange don’t even grow anymore

I respect and agree with your comment with the exception of 15$ an hour you do realize that as soon as feds raise min to 15 federally expect to pay 10$ a gallon of milk 6$ a gallon gas rent up +500$ 15$ min wage sounds great on paper until you realize every business will just pass the cost on to the consumers🤦‍♂️🍻👌💯

@@yumadbro9554 well i have hope that things will not go up so why not think positive and pray that things will be better for us citizens!!!

@@tinnelledwards1408 I've been alive for 8 presidents now past 6 I've been old enough to understand politics during all those presidents nothing has gotten better. In fact vs 1990 cost of living at min wage of 3.75c gas was below 1$ food was reasonable hell there was a dollar menu for years. Now fast forward to 2000 gas is 4-5$ under bush jr milk 3$ a gallon now fast forward to 2021 gas still floats 5$ avg and so is milk. Want to know what changed min wage went from 4.75 in 90s to 7.35 in 2008. Now instead of seperating from your coworkers and earn the 15$ raise we want govt to mandate 15$ an hour. I gurantee first year will be great lots of rich people until all the business owners stop eating the costs of all the raises plus the skilled workers that already were making more than 15$ now they want a raise to 20$+ because they went to school to make more $. Business owners won't eat that cost for long before they raise the prices of their services to cover the cost of raise in min wage. Instead of raising min wage why not regulate price gouging during the pandemic ie toilet paper and hand sanitizer going for hundreds and thousands of dollars in ebay etc. This is why 15$ min wage is a bad thing federally. Let the states regulate the min wage and that way you not making 15$ an hour you can move to a state that does. I'm not being negative I'm being realistic. You want to elevate your $ text me I'll put you into trading cryptocurrency for $ I've made 27k so far on only 1200$ that I earned for free in the trades. Also if the local workers in mcdonald's wants 15$ an hour they need to make sure I have correct order and napkins and ketchup. But nope they want 15$ an hour when they can't even work correctly at 8-10$ an hour I hope you see the problems with this now. Also how many fastfood restaurants you think gonna pay all those employees 15$ an hour before they start really bringing in the robots to replace the workers🤦‍♂️💯🤷‍♂️.

Looks like this was made in the late 90s or early 2000s (they quoted a Florida population of 16 million). Villages wasn't that big of a deal then.

But now in 2023 😱😱😱😱

I think that First Lady was definitely in the villages 😅

Great point

Since traveling out of Florida, I've wondered the same thing. All those beautiful woods and prvt swimming holes, islands and just places to be alone are gone to development. Nothing saved. Sad.

Big business kills

So sad. 5th generational Floridian here

"Growth Management" departments have been bought off.

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 ol

Heather A I hope it went well for you.

Esoteric Gnosis we are on our way💕

I want to move back there soooo bad. It’s awesome. But the heat girl, there’s no words to express lol. You get used to it after a while though. That state is so alive and there’s so many different types of people and cultures. Seriously good luck to you and your family!

@@casfox I want to go to Florida one day. It is a dream.

You know one thing about many others I love about Florida? I can grow tropical fruits all year round. I’ll take the risk of hurricanes, oppressive heat, and gators over oppressive long winters and super high taxes that come with it.

Ed Asner is the narrator's name

Nature will always have the last laugh.

Florida is the spearheaded fighting pandemic

I agree. If I could live my life over I would move to Florida as soon as I could afford it.

Probably not

That doesn't make sense.

berserktomcat it remained rural longer than most areas. Developed very later on.

That’s about right

Yep not a lot of people realize FL is Big (doesn't mean the environment isn't vulnerable tho) & lots of small sleepy towns. Like only a few or couple hundred people living in these "middle of nowhere" towns. Quite wild being in them/ experiencing it Edit: also amazing how dollar generals are absolutely everywhere. People think publixes are everywhere, but they only follow the big money

Bulldogs 🙌

I guess it's him, but I had to strain to hear it, as well

Funny, until reading this I thought it was Spencer Tracy.

FL in the 90s was probably the last decade it was nice before everything shot up into a financially unsustainable mess

The 70's 80's till the mid 90's was the best.

@@timboc105 The best years in EVERYTHING! I was a teen in the 70’s, a young adult in the 80’s and a parent of Millenniums in the 90’s! We had it so good… until we didn’t 2001 & on ….

@l.j.6169 Yup you got that right. Same here.

Yankees are a disease.

Yuck...

Heaven

@@jj342 LMFAOOOO this is the funniest comment ever

@@JacobSavvy thanks

If you're still thinking FL, then probably Niceville.

I’d say Ft Myers

WAS the greatest state..it's going to hell fast!

I'm from Northern Florida... all my grandparents migrated from North Carolina, Alabama and Virginia. Why?! They come here to die is my guess 🤷🤮

@@kimberlys8422. Florida is known as Heavens waiting room.

@@brandonsavitski Oh yeah I know. One of my grandparents is from VA, another NC, and another Alabama.

The narrator - in 2008 - was asking how would the wave of retiring Boomers affect Florida next. Watching this today in 2023, I am horrified by what the Boomers and 😱tHe ViLLAgES has done to central Florida!!!

It's funny, because everyone thinks that, but seniors are less a part of Florida than they were in the 1960s. Unless you live in one of the big retirement areas like Sun City Center or The Villages. The majority of who you will see now are families of all races. White, black, and Latino with a little bit of everything else mixed in. That part is nice.

Living close to the beach is such a horrible dream.

@@JimmyTurner. His retirement home would consist of a double wide trailer out in the middle of the boondocks with a bonfire pit.

Why?

You have other choices number 1 leave

@@WalkRobotFilm how you got a defensive tone outta that lol damn

@@b4536 I'm not wrong. The tropics are that portion of the world between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. If you look at a map or a globe you'll see all of Florida is above the Tropic of Cancer. Labeling it as a tropical climate does not put it in the tropics.

@@b4536 We're talking about two different things, geography and climate. The tropical zone is an unchanging geographic location. A climate zone is an arbitrary label that can change over time.

@@b4536 I don't laugh at replies, so I guess we have a disagreement on that, as well on the wording of the script.

Shut up nerd

@@Kuroki420 Thank you for the kind words.

and growing......electoral votes growing

Nice Burk!

Good, stay there.

@@Ridley369 I WILL LOL

Why?

Okay, stay where you are.

Probably a yank anyway, stay up north.

😂😂😂 Grow some ears boy

I would gladly help you with a keyed transcript. You may have to be patient though!

The Litterbox

Biden 21

I honestly love the vibe of old Florida. A tropical getaway, full of natural beauty instead of countless developments. Florida really used to have this tropical paradise charm to it. I think there's way too much development now. For me, I would have loved living in Florida from the late 1940s to the 1980s. Apart from Florida, I already love the vintage/retro aesthetic of the 1950s and 1980s.

Go back Europe "Bill Wilson"

@@NealForAmbassador: Do YOU live in an "immigrant" rich area? I doubt it. ALL "immigrants" are not good and should not be "painted with a broad brush" as good. OF COURSE there are some that are worthy to live in THE Greatest Nation on the Planet but there are many that should not be allowed to step foot into any country outside their own - MS13 gang members for example.