Many of us are always asking: "What is happening to the Florida I once knew?"
 
Let’s face it, many things have changed in Florida since you moved here – even if that’s not really a long time ago.

Florida develops fast – and often not in the direction many of us really like. Florida has turned into a melting pot of many different languages and English is definitely not always the language of choice. I guess most all of us have asked ourselves at one Time: Is Florida still part of the United States of America? Sometimes it really doesn’t look that way!

Personally I think that many of us want to be too politically correct and keep our mouth shut when we see things happening that surely didn’t happen in the USA of our ancestors.

Do we really want all this fast developments – or did we move here to enjoy the warm climate and the peace and quiet of the Florida we once knew?

Do we really want to destroy all the former natural beauty of Florida? Just this week I saw some reports on TV news about people complaining about bears roaming in their communities. Remember – your community was once their home. We develop and develop – and leave no space for the animals who once called these areas their homes!
 
We develop and develop without considering that there is only a limited amount of usable water in this state – and our politicians even sell parts of our water reserves to out-of-state companies for commercial purposes. And when counties enforce watering restrictions homeowners get fined for “brown spots on the lawn.” One Floridian even got jailed for that “offense.”

Is that the kind of development we are all looking for? Or do we rather want to live in a State where neighbors are still neighbors and bring neighbors in need chicken soup and cookies instead of serving them with lawsuits and/or foreclosure notices?