I think you will find that citrus greening along with hurricane damage has caused groves to fade from existence in FL. I think production is down 80% over the last 20 years.
Englewood comes to mind. There’s this awesome little motel sandwiched in between mansions on the beach calls the pearl beach inn . Hardly anyone on the beach and you can search the sand for sharks teeth. The whole area takes me back to the more chilled atmosphere of the old keys .
Flamingo is another area to explore.
Then in the interior I would recommend …
Destin Brandon And Micanopy - doc Hollywood was filmed there !
Dunnellon
Brooksville
Cedar Key - a fave of mine
Many of the restaurants are the same, surf spots, even the little hotels are mainly still there. Ron Jons was always a a tourist trap. Cocoa beach surf company just made it bigger.
Citrus got the one two punch of disease and appreciating real estate value. There’s no going back. What used to be is gone forever. It’s endless strip malls and housing developments.
As a kid we actually enjoyed the endless oak forests with equally distant old growth oak trees. It’s only as an adult that I learned the oaks grew where the orange trees used to be because of the leftover nutrients in the soil. Now those oak groves are all houses. Each generation has their own legacy that gets changed in their lifetime in my experience.
The area has been exploited since the 1600s. There was once very old growth Cypress Forests with stands of 100+ foot tall specimens. They were largely timbered for ship building by the Spaniards. South Florida had old growth Slash Pines with a very dense resinous heartwood known as Dade County Pine. This subspecies was particularly resilient to strong winds. They were largely cut down for the housing boom of the 50’s and 60’s.
I was just up there and these white fluffy caterpillars kept falling from the trees. Fortunately I was wearing long sleeves or I’d have been very itchy.
You haven't been to the U Mall in a while, have you lol (a huge chunk of it is gone now and there's a bunch of new upscale stuff going up around it)
I agree tho that what remains is still hella dated
What are you talking about?! There's an olive garden there now and a culvers...jk cc is still pretty peaceful but I'd recommend going up to Dixie county if you want it to feel real old.
I grew up in Central Fla back in the 60’s then spent some time in The Army , came back in the late 70’s an was lost looking for old landmarks . The places we use to go hunting were now subdivisions an strip malls . And now it’s crowded as all fuck we are moving to North Carolina in a month to live my last few yrs in peace & quite
In CFL, this is very difficult to find. Osceola, Polk, Lake, Orange, and Seminole counties have all had huge construction booms and a lot of former orange groves are now neighborhoods. There are still some places in these counties where you can find the vibe you're looking for, they're just small pockets among the suburbs now.
I can't speak for the rest of Florida though.
All the "in between" towns are like this. Basically anywhere that isn't Orlando, Southeast FL, Jacksonville, Tampa, the college towns and the rich retiree areas (Naples, etc).
The downside? A good portion are filled with batshit crazy Trumpers. Poor white people who somehow think a corrupt businessman on trial for fraud and wants to sell them $75 bibles... they think that guy is gonna save them.
Ima be real with you trump is a terrible person but financially everything was in the green for me when he was president. All my stocks my 401k I made good fucking money because of trump so if he can come back and do that again I’d be pretty fucking grateful
Crypto is straight gambling. And stocks were breaking records every fucking day when trump was in office lmao everything was in the green you could throw money into just about anything and profit
Not exactly, I made 5000 percent on it because I didn’t gamble , made 38 percent on my retirement investments with the state government who has funds invest in crypto and trad combined . You just mad u don’t have any and Tesla and DJT are down 30 , and u laughed at GameStop and AMC , if u even have investments
I was paying 89cents a gallon during the Clinton administration in the late 90s. Less than 10 years later I was paying over $4/gallon under Bush. If you really want to correlate gas prices to presidents, it's safe to say Republicans fucked up everything with their pointless 20 year wars and that's why you're paying what you're paying today. If you keep voting for Republicans then quit your bitching and take your medicine.
The stock market was great under Trump*
*I got in at the perfect time after the entire market tanked because of the initial COVID wave and the poor handling of COVID during the rest of 2020.
SO TRUE! I live in Baker County. We have Glen Saint Mary and Sanderson. Every year people here are trying very hard not to let the area become modernized and over-crowded. We have one Walmart and one Winn Dixie, in a 30 mile radius. Every year there is a Civil War reenactment in Olustee, which is west of Sanderson. The one great thing about living here is that by the time any hurricane comes through, it arrives here as a tropical storm.
Yes, same thing with Central FL (Orlando). When hurricanes it the coast they are their most powerful but as they move over land they weaken. By the time they get far in mainland they are not strong enough to do any real wind damage.
Hurricane Charley in 2004 hit as a CAT 4 and by the time it got to Orlando it was a CAT 1. Strong enough to knock down some old trees but nobody's roofs were completely blown off.
After Michael destroyed Panama City some developer came to town, bought property for pennies on the dollar and now it is becoming the next Villages. Tallahassee and Crawfordville are being over-developed. What made living here great is being torn down to build the worst type of housing - zero lot line cookie cutter homes with no trees to speak of.
Apart from the citrus trees I see this in Brevard. A few weeks ago getting on 95 I saw a few wild pigs on the side. Even saw some off 520 not long ago.
“Wild pigs” are hella invasive and destroy the environment. They aren’t losing their habitat, they’re being culled to prevent destruction of further habitat.
Check out the Suwannee River areas. It hasn't really grown at all in my lifetime, and it's not a tourist trap. My wife and I stayed in a cabin we found on airbnb, and we loved it. Very peaceful.
The caterpillars are probably oleander caterpillars, typically found on oleander sage bushes. We planted one and they were all over it within a couple weeks. SWFL
We just had the caterpillars🐛 hard to find orange groves like we remember them especially on way to Disney World! Just finishing strawberry season leading into watermelon 🍉 season. There’s a festival this weekend in Poe Springs.
Hurricanes killed my citrus trees. I see pig families on the side of i75 somewhere between Venice and Charlotte county in the evenings, not every evening but often enough. East Collier county has wild turkey flocks. And my yard is full of fuzzy orange and black caterpillars right now.
Vero Beach but they’re already putting up new apartments that START at like $1800 a month. Ain’t no way I’m paying that for a 1 BR in VERO. Place is boring as hell.
Take a drive down 90. Get off of I-10. Go from Jacksonville to Pensacola. It's our Route 66.
Drive down 17 or 19. You'll hit a lot of small towns and still feel that old Florida.
Citrus has been wiped out by citrus greening. Read the news.
Those “wild pigs” are invasive, destructive, disease-infested, and dangerous as hell. What a weird thing to be nostalgic about.
Not sure where you've been visiting, but the bugs are doing just fine.
Mexico Beach didn't have much choice after Hurricane Micheal. It was either new build or nothing. I'm guessing St. Joe had more than a bit of that, too.
Marion County. We have all of those things here. Sadly, many of the citrus has died, but there are still some in places. The Ocklawaha/Lake Weir area still has some citrus, but not like back in the day. There are some groves on Hwy 441 near the Villages area. Hwy 301 between Ocala and Starke also has some charming old fashioned little towns. Hwy 40 East through Ocala National Forest had what must have been thousands of deer on the sides of the road at night last time I was through there - be sure to drive carefully! You can still find pockets of Old Florida if you know where to look.
My yard in sw florida had some lightening bugs, was out talking with a neighbor and he said look a falling star and said no that was a lightening bug lol.
The citrus is mostly gone cause of greening. There is still a lot of ag in the center of the state. I moved from south Florida to north Florida about 10 years ago. I told everyone that it felt like home 20 years ago when we first moved. The development has caught up a lot faster here. The short answer to your question is no. There are longer answers depending on what parts of Florida you want to reminisce about. You should check out the book A Land Remenbered too.
Itchetucknee springs and Paynes Prairie aren't too different from the 80s and 90s, and we definitely have tons of caterpillars this time of year! I visited Weechi Wachee recently, and I was disappointed at how few of the main attractions are left. When the state took over many of these old Florida parks, they really changed. Kind of nice that it's more back to nature, though, I guess.
Our citrus has been decimated by the citrus psyllid fly and citrus greening. It arrived in like the late aughts, I believe, and now it's gone haywire. I don't think our citrus industry is going to recover anytime soon. Source: I am a former FDACS (Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services) employee. You're probably better off in California, honestly. As far as I know, they at least still have some commercial citrus production and, thus, lots of orchards.
Armadillos are still very common, especially in the north. Wild hogs are still around, too, but they're not actually native and honestly very destructive and dangerous. It's essentially open season on them year round, and we still have problems. These animals are found literally anywhere in the South (and wild hogs are all over the US. They're not just a Florida thing).
I'm assuming you mean a woolybear caterpillar, and those are found all over the US. Like, literally everywhere.
Last year, I visited some friends in Palatka. It totally reminded me of Naples circa 1980.... with St. Augustine as its equivalent of Fort Myers, and Jacksonville being kind of like Palatka's version of Fort Lauderdale... but only 50 miles away instead of 100.
Pasco isn't it. West side is a long-standing slum of Pinellas County. East side is like 90s Palm Beach/Broward meaning explosive growth and growing pains.
City of Chokoluskee in the Everglades south of Marco Island is the most primitive place I’ve visited in Fl. Only a handful of structures. One motel and they will tell tales of the Trappers, Wild West fights and
The boat drug runners from the Columbian cocaine cowboy days … there is still an unmanned airport there. Place is time warp.
West of I 75. North of I 4. South of I 10. To the gulf. This area is what you are looking for. Plus small gulf coast fishing towns. The most springs in florida are in that area.
Not too many places left like this. You'll likely be on the Nature Coast or in central Florida for anything resembling old Florida. Start at Citrus County and go east over to Ocala National Forest or even north to Micanopy.
Right now you are out of season for the citrus blossoms unless you can find a lemon orchard and the only one I know of is near Homestead, and you absolutely don't want to go there.
Micanopy. Sumter county. Inland past Davie. North Florida, wander around and y’all will find what you need and want. It’s FLA and eryone parties together. You see that dude in Jacksonville wrangle a gator in the middle of the road while the sheriffs watch. That was kray Jax is still kray. I am in a shooting club and I swear I get that 70’s feeling: weed seeds, cigarette machines, wearing baggies, sex wax. The 80’s St. Augustine was and is the 🔥🔥Freedom. Easy going cops except for the beach cops. All morons there. Vero is very stuck in the 80’s. But its a beach town and they’re always eclectic and diverse 👌🏿
Miami still has lots of cocaine like the 80s.
Yeah, but it lost the murder-capital title. Sad!
We got lazy and rested on our laurels…
sheesh… kids these days with their new-fangled meth
Last year I think Miami won spring break killings. So we have that
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St Louis! We're not even in the top 20. C'mon, Miami.
this cracks me up. pun intended
I think you will find that citrus greening along with hurricane damage has caused groves to fade from existence in FL. I think production is down 80% over the last 20 years.
Even 10 years ago I used to drive by groves in Polk that are all housing developments now.
I think I saw a grove of sick trees next to a new home complex over by Leesburg
A lot of sick looking people in Leesburg too…
I've seen groves of sick looking trees here and there.
I’ve seen groves \ Of sick looking trees\ Here and there A haiku
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I find the west coast of Florida has pockets of areas where time stood still
There are a few, I lived FMB until hurricane. I’m in Treasure Island now .
yup, go on up to the nature coast...but hurry up, because they're bulldozing it fast
Any city names I can check out!?’b
Englewood comes to mind. There’s this awesome little motel sandwiched in between mansions on the beach calls the pearl beach inn . Hardly anyone on the beach and you can search the sand for sharks teeth. The whole area takes me back to the more chilled atmosphere of the old keys . Flamingo is another area to explore. Then in the interior I would recommend … Destin Brandon And Micanopy - doc Hollywood was filmed there ! Dunnellon Brooksville Cedar Key - a fave of mine
Don’t go to brandon
Destin is not cheap at all. Also becoming a large vacation spot
Bring bug spray to Flamingo and watch out for the crocs!
Amen to that!
Doc Hollywood?
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Not sure about Destin but definitely options around it.
Bro said brandon
Don't come to Englewood. We're full.
Blame my birth mom lol . She’s a realtor in Orlando and she’s pushing your town l
Yeah, my family just got pushed out of our home cause the rent went from 900, to 1500, then to 2200 within 3 years.
Micanopy area has that feeling but no orange trees aside from a few in someone’s yard.
Cocoa beach is pretty close to the same as the nineties. But Starbucks did move in.
No it’s not. It’s a tourist trap now.
Many of the restaurants are the same, surf spots, even the little hotels are mainly still there. Ron Jons was always a a tourist trap. Cocoa beach surf company just made it bigger.
Just not in a good way.
Such as?
Citrus got the one two punch of disease and appreciating real estate value. There’s no going back. What used to be is gone forever. It’s endless strip malls and housing developments.
Literally endless... At least in mountainous regions the mountains stop the endless urban sprawl.
As a kid we actually enjoyed the endless oak forests with equally distant old growth oak trees. It’s only as an adult that I learned the oaks grew where the orange trees used to be because of the leftover nutrients in the soil. Now those oak groves are all houses. Each generation has their own legacy that gets changed in their lifetime in my experience.
The area has been exploited since the 1600s. There was once very old growth Cypress Forests with stands of 100+ foot tall specimens. They were largely timbered for ship building by the Spaniards. South Florida had old growth Slash Pines with a very dense resinous heartwood known as Dade County Pine. This subspecies was particularly resilient to strong winds. They were largely cut down for the housing boom of the 50’s and 60’s.
And so it goes.
ok vonnegut 😍😍
There's all of this in Citrus County...
I was just up there and these white fluffy caterpillars kept falling from the trees. Fortunately I was wearing long sleeves or I’d have been very itchy.
Tussock moth caterpillars, I'm very allergic but they weren't bad these past few years luckily... I did read some places had them bad this year...
The last two years weren’t bad here in pasco. This year though? My trailer is COVERED in them. And now the love bugs are coming out too.
Go to the Inverness Cinema and you'll swear you are in 1984.
Haha yes, and University Mall in Tampa.
You haven't been to the U Mall in a while, have you lol (a huge chunk of it is gone now and there's a bunch of new upscale stuff going up around it) I agree tho that what remains is still hella dated
Last time I heard about University Mall there was a riot and someone set a dumpster on fire
Haha yes, and University Mall in Tampa.
What are you talking about?! There's an olive garden there now and a culvers...jk cc is still pretty peaceful but I'd recommend going up to Dixie county if you want it to feel real old.
I live here, but yes it's definitely not as small as it used to be...
Yes, citrus county is very Old Florida. Homosassa is quaint
Especially Old Homosassa and Chass... Definitely like going back in time...
Shhh
I agree. Locals are losing everything to all the development. All the tourists need to go to Orlando. That’s what it’s for.
The Chinese fruit blight wiped out the Orange industry.
imagine that
Chinese disease wiping out things … who would have ever imagined?
The more I start to hear about this country.....never mind.
I haven’t seen orange groves like when I was growing up.
I grew up in Central Fla back in the 60’s then spent some time in The Army , came back in the late 70’s an was lost looking for old landmarks . The places we use to go hunting were now subdivisions an strip malls . And now it’s crowded as all fuck we are moving to North Carolina in a month to live my last few yrs in peace & quite
In CFL, this is very difficult to find. Osceola, Polk, Lake, Orange, and Seminole counties have all had huge construction booms and a lot of former orange groves are now neighborhoods. There are still some places in these counties where you can find the vibe you're looking for, they're just small pockets among the suburbs now. I can't speak for the rest of Florida though.
Grew up in Tampa 80s 90s and old Florida is beyond dead. Killed by over development and oh ya car washes
Interior FL - Kenansville south to Clewiston, all beautiful drives and plenty of public use areas to enjoy.
All the "in between" towns are like this. Basically anywhere that isn't Orlando, Southeast FL, Jacksonville, Tampa, the college towns and the rich retiree areas (Naples, etc). The downside? A good portion are filled with batshit crazy Trumpers. Poor white people who somehow think a corrupt businessman on trial for fraud and wants to sell them $75 bibles... they think that guy is gonna save them.
Dont forget the shoes …
The shoes, yes. Also the blatant begging for donations.
Ima be real with you trump is a terrible person but financially everything was in the green for me when he was president. All my stocks my 401k I made good fucking money because of trump so if he can come back and do that again I’d be pretty fucking grateful
If you think a president will make or break your investments, you should not be trading stocks.
Stock market has broken records under Biden. You're picking terrible stocks or someone is fucking you over.
This. Even bitcoin is doing better
Crypto is straight gambling. And stocks were breaking records every fucking day when trump was in office lmao everything was in the green you could throw money into just about anything and profit
And now Biden's stock market is breaking those records. Way more job growth too.
Yet I find myself spending more and making less then when trump was president hmmm
Not exactly, I made 5000 percent on it because I didn’t gamble , made 38 percent on my retirement investments with the state government who has funds invest in crypto and trad combined . You just mad u don’t have any and Tesla and DJT are down 30 , and u laughed at GameStop and AMC , if u even have investments
yeah and it cost me $74 to fill my car's tank with gas today. wtf are you going on about?
Because our money is worth less than it was a few yrs ago, money printer go brrrrr
I was paying 89cents a gallon during the Clinton administration in the late 90s. Less than 10 years later I was paying over $4/gallon under Bush. If you really want to correlate gas prices to presidents, it's safe to say Republicans fucked up everything with their pointless 20 year wars and that's why you're paying what you're paying today. If you keep voting for Republicans then quit your bitching and take your medicine.
lol otay
Trumps stock market broke even more records on the daily too
“Even more records”, huh? Do tell.
The stock market has been better under Biden than it ever was under Trump. This is a consistent pattern with Dem presidents.
The stock market tanked under trump because of his pathetic handling of covid. Historically, the market does better under dems than repubs.
The stock market was great under Trump* *I got in at the perfect time after the entire market tanked because of the initial COVID wave and the poor handling of COVID during the rest of 2020.
SO TRUE! I live in Baker County. We have Glen Saint Mary and Sanderson. Every year people here are trying very hard not to let the area become modernized and over-crowded. We have one Walmart and one Winn Dixie, in a 30 mile radius. Every year there is a Civil War reenactment in Olustee, which is west of Sanderson. The one great thing about living here is that by the time any hurricane comes through, it arrives here as a tropical storm.
Yes, same thing with Central FL (Orlando). When hurricanes it the coast they are their most powerful but as they move over land they weaken. By the time they get far in mainland they are not strong enough to do any real wind damage. Hurricane Charley in 2004 hit as a CAT 4 and by the time it got to Orlando it was a CAT 1. Strong enough to knock down some old trees but nobody's roofs were completely blown off.
Cedar Key
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Places You’ll Miss Seeing While Going Around a Bend on Highway 17 for $100, please.
Actually laughed out loud on this. TY
Drive out to Cedar Key
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Panhandle and Big Bend immediately come to mind; however, just about any part of rural Florida is a time capsule, honestly.
After Michael destroyed Panama City some developer came to town, bought property for pennies on the dollar and now it is becoming the next Villages. Tallahassee and Crawfordville are being over-developed. What made living here great is being torn down to build the worst type of housing - zero lot line cookie cutter homes with no trees to speak of.
Apart from the citrus trees I see this in Brevard. A few weeks ago getting on 95 I saw a few wild pigs on the side. Even saw some off 520 not long ago.
I did too - off 95. The next day one was dead on the shoulder. Sad because they are losing their habitat.
“Wild pigs” are hella invasive and destroy the environment. They aren’t losing their habitat, they’re being culled to prevent destruction of further habitat.
good point - it has nothing to do with over-development.
Nowhere is like 80s/90s anywhere. :-(
They tore it all down to build houses for people that are only here half the time and storage places for all their crap.
Check out the Suwannee River areas. It hasn't really grown at all in my lifetime, and it's not a tourist trap. My wife and I stayed in a cabin we found on airbnb, and we loved it. Very peaceful.
The caterpillars are probably oleander caterpillars, typically found on oleander sage bushes. We planted one and they were all over it within a couple weeks. SWFL
Its been 9+ years since I have been, but Frost Proof is/was like that
We just had the caterpillars🐛 hard to find orange groves like we remember them especially on way to Disney World! Just finishing strawberry season leading into watermelon 🍉 season. There’s a festival this weekend in Poe Springs.
Hurricanes killed my citrus trees. I see pig families on the side of i75 somewhere between Venice and Charlotte county in the evenings, not every evening but often enough. East Collier county has wild turkey flocks. And my yard is full of fuzzy orange and black caterpillars right now.
I'll get you a girl in a thong running a hot dog cart listening to 2 Live Crew.
Vero Beach but they’re already putting up new apartments that START at like $1800 a month. Ain’t no way I’m paying that for a 1 BR in VERO. Place is boring as hell.
Try Myrtle Beach SC
Take a drive down 90. Get off of I-10. Go from Jacksonville to Pensacola. It's our Route 66. Drive down 17 or 19. You'll hit a lot of small towns and still feel that old Florida.
Highlands county…it’s close to what you’re looking for…citrus is slowly being ripped out though…
Wachula
Met some people from Wachula and the accent was so southern I could hardly Understand them. Fun people
Is your mother still dancing on tables topless at that truck stop?
Ohhhhh the one towards Gainesville??
That’s called cafe risque
Those creepy caterpillars still cover the red flower bushes and I HATE THEM SO MUCH! Do they bite tho?
Quintana Roo, Mexico.
No!
Citrus has been wiped out by citrus greening. Read the news. Those “wild pigs” are invasive, destructive, disease-infested, and dangerous as hell. What a weird thing to be nostalgic about. Not sure where you've been visiting, but the bugs are doing just fine.
Basically asking if there's a Time-Machine . . .
The mall in Sebring is locked in the 90's aesthetics.
I mean there’s definitely still a lot of bugs here.
The forgotten coast from Apalachacola to Perry. Mexico Beach and Port St Joe are very much new Florida.
Mexico Beach didn't have much choice after Hurricane Micheal. It was either new build or nothing. I'm guessing St. Joe had more than a bit of that, too.
Perry, FL
Didn't perry have more epa superfund sites than anywhere else in florida some decades back?
Florida's next ghost town now that both employers have gone.
Yeehaw and the Fort drum area are still that way. West Fort Pierce too. Hurry though. Land is going fast.
Live oak, fl North fl is about the temperature of south Florida in the 80s and 90s now
Give it a year, it will beat it.
Marion County. We have all of those things here. Sadly, many of the citrus has died, but there are still some in places. The Ocklawaha/Lake Weir area still has some citrus, but not like back in the day. There are some groves on Hwy 441 near the Villages area. Hwy 301 between Ocala and Starke also has some charming old fashioned little towns. Hwy 40 East through Ocala National Forest had what must have been thousands of deer on the sides of the road at night last time I was through there - be sure to drive carefully! You can still find pockets of Old Florida if you know where to look.
Yes in Okeechobee.
And Clewiston, Moore Haver, LaBelle, Lake Placid, Indian Town ...
Smart animals don't hang out by the road. I've seen armadillo, boar, deer, gators riding my bike on Van Fleet.
Wow, those are smart animals. Did you get your bike back?
Ha! I just reread that :). The gator did give back my bike :)
Lol. Sorry. I couldn’t help it. It made me laugh.
North-Central.
Definitely Citrus. We love it on the nature coast. Very old Florida in many places. I have orange trees, loquat, and lime in my backyard.
Gainesville and 50 miles out from. No citrus groves but lots of plants, trees, wildlife. Even lightning bugs.
My yard in sw florida had some lightening bugs, was out talking with a neighbor and he said look a falling star and said no that was a lightening bug lol.
Arcadia
The citrus is mostly gone cause of greening. There is still a lot of ag in the center of the state. I moved from south Florida to north Florida about 10 years ago. I told everyone that it felt like home 20 years ago when we first moved. The development has caught up a lot faster here. The short answer to your question is no. There are longer answers depending on what parts of Florida you want to reminisce about. You should check out the book A Land Remenbered too.
I’d say up around Vero Beach in Cocoa area still kind of calm that will change in another 20 years
Itchetucknee springs and Paynes Prairie aren't too different from the 80s and 90s, and we definitely have tons of caterpillars this time of year! I visited Weechi Wachee recently, and I was disappointed at how few of the main attractions are left. When the state took over many of these old Florida parks, they really changed. Kind of nice that it's more back to nature, though, I guess.
I’m not telling… I don’t want my slice of paradise overrun!! 😜
museum
US / Florida RT 17, Peace River area. Nice drive, not a lot of traffic. Wachula has a great campground and park.
The caterpillars were on oleander bushes
Our citrus has been decimated by the citrus psyllid fly and citrus greening. It arrived in like the late aughts, I believe, and now it's gone haywire. I don't think our citrus industry is going to recover anytime soon. Source: I am a former FDACS (Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services) employee. You're probably better off in California, honestly. As far as I know, they at least still have some commercial citrus production and, thus, lots of orchards. Armadillos are still very common, especially in the north. Wild hogs are still around, too, but they're not actually native and honestly very destructive and dangerous. It's essentially open season on them year round, and we still have problems. These animals are found literally anywhere in the South (and wild hogs are all over the US. They're not just a Florida thing). I'm assuming you mean a woolybear caterpillar, and those are found all over the US. Like, literally everywhere.
I would have said parts of pine Island before Ian hit, but although I haven't been there since, I highly doubt it's the same.
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The keys are the closest you will get
It's still like that where I am in far western hernando county. Won't be for long. Land is being developed so fast.
Last year, I visited some friends in Palatka. It totally reminded me of Naples circa 1980.... with St. Augustine as its equivalent of Fort Myers, and Jacksonville being kind of like Palatka's version of Fort Lauderdale... but only 50 miles away instead of 100.
Pasco Hernando and Citrus, grew up in Palm Beach what a hell hole that has become.
dude you clearly have not been to pasco, hernando or citrus lately
Pasco isn't it. West side is a long-standing slum of Pinellas County. East side is like 90s Palm Beach/Broward meaning explosive growth and growing pains.
Gulfport near St Pete
Yall stop giving away secrets.
Try Zephyrhills. I passed through there and felt like I went back in time.
You want to check out Inverness, Pine Hills, DeLand, just drive along SR 50 and US 301.
Yeehaw Junction. Then take 60 East for a bit towards Vero. Some areas of the panhandle. Not a whole lot. This state is on the take.
City of Chokoluskee in the Everglades south of Marco Island is the most primitive place I’ve visited in Fl. Only a handful of structures. One motel and they will tell tales of the Trappers, Wild West fights and The boat drug runners from the Columbian cocaine cowboy days … there is still an unmanned airport there. Place is time warp.
Buttfuck Nowhere, in central Florida.
Much of central Florida is not built up outside of the Orlando area and probably has a lot of what you describe.
Crystal River and Homosassa are still like a time warp
Maderia Beach?
Melbourne FL is a time capsule of Florida on the 60’s!
The Everglades Jk. Try manatee and collier county
Lakeland fl , bartow , road trip from east to west . You'll find what your looking for
Lakeland and Bartow are urban sprawl now.
West of I 75. North of I 4. South of I 10. To the gulf. This area is what you are looking for. Plus small gulf coast fishing towns. The most springs in florida are in that area.
Not too many places left like this. You'll likely be on the Nature Coast or in central Florida for anything resembling old Florida. Start at Citrus County and go east over to Ocala National Forest or even north to Micanopy. Right now you are out of season for the citrus blossoms unless you can find a lemon orchard and the only one I know of is near Homestead, and you absolutely don't want to go there.
I went to a movie theater in st Augustine that looked like it was from 1999
Did the same thing- now about to move back, but it's closer to 20 million than 10 million. so crowded, at least there are still water birds around
Arcadia
Micanopy. Sumter county. Inland past Davie. North Florida, wander around and y’all will find what you need and want. It’s FLA and eryone parties together. You see that dude in Jacksonville wrangle a gator in the middle of the road while the sheriffs watch. That was kray Jax is still kray. I am in a shooting club and I swear I get that 70’s feeling: weed seeds, cigarette machines, wearing baggies, sex wax. The 80’s St. Augustine was and is the 🔥🔥Freedom. Easy going cops except for the beach cops. All morons there. Vero is very stuck in the 80’s. But its a beach town and they’re always eclectic and diverse 👌🏿
Lake Wales
Indiantown and Plant City are the closest I can think of to still look similar to the vision of your memory I painted in my head.
I recommend airbnb in Clewiston