If you're trying to say Osceola is not a $hitt hole, you're wasting your time.
Puerto Rico Declares Bankruptcy
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I'm glad you're happy there but there really is no reason to visit Osceola. It's a craphole.
We're happy you found a place that you enjoy but it's the outlier in the county.
Bob, I've lived in both and you need to stop, the best part of Osceola is on par with north Tampa which is not even the top five areas of Tampa.
You need to stop. You don't live in FL, IIRC.
That's ok. I guess I should have known better than to try to convince prejudiced assholes on a message board. You're not going to change your mind, even if you're wrong. That's fine. That means it stays less crowded. Even better for me.
2 things...I responded a poster who responded to this comment about PR:
And when someone said "just like America", this is the quote I responded to:
And then I corrected you on crime stats for Seminole vs Osceola County.
Lol. Can I get in here and say Brooksville/Hernando is better than Orange, Seminole, Osceola, Hillsborough and Pinellas?
Hernando is the Osceola of the Tampa metro.
didn't attend any offense @CommuterBob . Home is home.
My point being that Puerto Rico having the benefits of statehood the last 50 or so years would probably have it in a different economic situation
My point being that Puerto Rico having the benefits of statehood the last 50 or so years would probably have it in a different economic situation
Yes I live in NY but I lived in Osceola county for three years and my brother still teaches at OHS. My job is to analyze markets for retailers using 71 different psychographic categories. Osceola county does not rate very high and from an education level, Osceola county is in the bottom five in the state.
Ok. Retail is booming though. Lots of new development happening too.
And according to this site, it's right in the middle of the state both in terms of % of 25+ population with HS diploma and in terms of % of 25+ population with bachelors degrees.
https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/un...-over-with-high-school-degree-or-higher#chart
Certainly not bottom 5.
I'm unfamiliar with how Foreign investment works. But how is Puerto Rican investments treated by the IRS? Is there a benefit to investors by Puerto Rico becoming a state? Might be a way to raise the capital needed to rebuild.
Excuse me, we are piling on Osceola and Hernando counties here.
In all fairness Osceola County is quite large but all it is really known for is Kissimmee which is a $hit hole. Now go out towards Brevard County and Osceola turns very rural, still not my type of thing but it has to be better than Kissimmee.
Yeehaw Junction is a happening spot
I've driven by that spot hundreds of times and have never had any inclination to stop.
We stopped once since it's supposed to have pretty good food. However I couldn't get past the general sense of dirt and grime everywhere, so we kept driving until we found a Publix. The building itself is historic given it predates 1920 and served as a trading post starting in the 1880's. There a history landmark sign out front.
Not sure how much of this is true, but it would certainly explain some of their problems
while we are on the topic of analyzing/shitting on Florida counties/cities I'm wondering what are the projected growth numbers for Sarasota.
Everytime I go there I wonder how this isn't circled for developers to eventually shoot past Tampa as the largest/most well known Gulf Coast city in Florida. It has everything you would want to turn into one of the best coastal cities in America. The stretch from Siesta Key to LBK is hard to beat anywhere. All things being equal other than the dating pool I don't know why anyone would pick to live in Tampa over Sarasota.
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Well for starters, there is no real industry in Sarasota compared to Tampa/St Pete.
From my house in St Pete to Sarasota is a good 40-45 minutes without traffic and it can easily become 75 minutes with normal traffic. It's even worse going to Tampa because you have to use 75 and it completely clogs up around Brandon going into the city. It's not like a suburb that's reachable in 20-25 minutes.
Siesta and Longboat Keys are nice, largely, because people have NOT started pouring in to live down there.
yeah I know but it's a great option to start basing some companies. Most of Tampa Bay's growth has gone north towards Wesley Chapel and that commute into Tampa is brutal, at least Sarasota has amazing beaches to come home to if someone wants to dare do that commute or just has the luxury of working mobile from home.
I always laugh at the poor suckers backed up for miles at the 56 exit on 75N/275N. That looks like absolute hell and I could not deal with that every day.
OT: My wife and I caught a cab from the airport to our hotel when we went to Dublin for the Penn St game. The cab driver asked if we were from Germany, and I said no St. Pete., Fl. Then I started to explain where it was and he cut me off and said he goes to Longboat Key every year he knows where it is.
First land costs are through the roof and much of the commercial land is owned by one or two large developers and they are not going to compete with themselves. Also, for the longest time Sarasota and the surrounding County would not allow development east of I-75 and that was a major hurdle to growth in the area.
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So much misinformation here, makes my eyes hurt.
http://www.taxjusticeblog.org/archive/2016/08/puerto_rico_and_section_936_a.php#.WRGm4fkrJhE
Prior to 1996, there was all sorts of industry in Puerto Rico: electronics, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, etc. Then the Small Business Job Protection Act happened. If you know anything about logistics, bringing industry to an island in the middle of the Caribbean is not cheap, so tax cuts were given to all the US and foreign companies to operate out of PR. Once those tax cuts were gone (thanks, Clinton), and there was no other regulation to take its place, all major companies left, leaving an enormous portion of the island unemployed. That's when people started leaving. That's when I left.
http://www.taxjusticeblog.org/archive/2016/08/puerto_rico_and_section_936_a.php#.WRGm4fkrJhE
Prior to 1996, there was all sorts of industry in Puerto Rico: electronics, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, etc. Then the Small Business Job Protection Act happened. If you know anything about logistics, bringing industry to an island in the middle of the Caribbean is not cheap, so tax cuts were given to all the US and foreign companies to operate out of PR. Once those tax cuts were gone (thanks, Clinton), and there was no other regulation to take its place, all major companies left, leaving an enormous portion of the island unemployed. That's when people started leaving. That's when I left.
Is this in regards to why I left, or why the island is how it is or why Clinton sucks?
We're an interracial couple. I think he assumed I was a US Serviceman and my wife was German.
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