Now this is the way people retire in Flordia...

[samplegirl]

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/09/human_landscapes_in_sw_florida.html

[X_Digger]

1. I'd love to pick out a spot in a development that never gets built out..

Just me, a canal, a fishing pole, and a boat. *sigh*

[flvegan]

5. Exactly my thought. Pic #15 looks promising.

One of the lots way to the south on that bit of water.

[X_Digger]

8. #6, on Cup Court..

http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&hl=en&ie=UTF8&hq=&ll=26.873397,-82.179902&spn=0.005627,0.010042&z=17

[flvegan]

12. Ooh, now you're talking.

[onehandle]

2. Do developers who conceive such tightly packed housing see the whole world being like that someday?

Sorry. We would die off like too many mice in a cage long before that happened.

[samplegirl]

7. How would you find your way back home?

Better be sober!

[Warpy]

3. A lot of the state looks just like that if you've ever flown over it

with the shoreline of nearly every body of water encrusted with houses. While it makes a lot of sense for old folks to live crammed together like that--little yard maintenance--it's still pretty grotesque.

No thanks.

[Vickers]

4. Pretty wild that someone in Boston is writing about densely-packed housing. n/t

[Roland99]

19. heh...no kidding.

Take pics from Las Vegas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston or Dallas suburbs, suburbs along the Snyder Freeway in Louisville, KY and you'll see the same things.

[alfredo]

A one foot rise in the ocean and?

[BlackHoleSon]

6. The DENSITY

of the population in Florida was unbearable. It was like NY except everyone had cars.

[DrDan]

9. the whole state has about 20% less population than greater NYC

your description is a bit off-target

[EC]

10. They may as well be

row houses...

[lpbk2713]

11. They do it that way in Florida too.

" ... and they're all made of ticky-tacky."

[old mark]

13. Like some developments around here in PA on what used to be farmland.

But these are more tightly packed. Ours our terribly constructed homes on tiny lots starting at a quarter million dollars. They are so poorly built, some will probably not last the length of the mortgage.

mark

[Odin2005]

14. Disgusting suburban ugliness.

:puke:

[marions ghost]

15. an interesting group of pictures

you feel grateful for the tracts that went bankrupt.

One day we will be sorry for this.

[MrScorpio]

16. Little Boxes!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ_7QrSEtzA

[BrklynLiberal]

17. Never could understand the appeal of Florida. I would move to the great Northwest if I

could. British Columbia appeals to me. I would move to Alaska before I would move to Florida.

[Scurrilous]

18. Nice pics.

Thanks. :thumbsup: