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Yeah, Central Florida is going to get crushed, I think.  There's almost literally no economy outside the theme parks, and those jobs are generally taken by kids who are, needless to say, not buying the $400k homes that characterize the Orlando/Kissimmee-St Cloud area.

The Florida housing market is wholly dependent upon wealthy and wealthy-ish Northerners retiring down there, but they generally want to live near the beach.  Kissimmee is in the middle of the swamp in the center.

Florida, in general, is going to be hammered.  Central Florida is going to be devastated.  The one silver lining is the weak dollar, which means foreigners can more easily afford the theme parks, thus pumping up the economy and local government coffers, but that'll likely be more than offset by the recession here.

Not good.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 10:18:19 PM EST
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And by the fact that they're all treated as dangerous terrorists at the borders.
by Zwackus on Wed Mar 12th, 2008 at 04:30:41 AM EST
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