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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum
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To: TobagoJack who wrote (174088)7/1/2021 6:07:14 PM
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As I grew up in Florida, and have lived there off and on since... find the story interesting as an obvious item of concern for public officials... mostly in "how far will it go" in discovering the sources of problems.

Florida has a very long history in the construction trades, of, ah... "supplementary income" for officials facilitating the completion of projects... without all of the usual inconveniences for those building them... and generally less bodily harm done to said officials than such inconveniences might otherwise impose.

The state has made improvements in recent years... but, historically, real estate fraud has been a sort of a state sport... there being no shortage either of cheap local swampland or monied out-of-town tourists interested in buying such retirement or vacation paradises as might be built in such swamps...

Much of that has been immortalized in generally highly amusing novels written by Miami Herald journalist Carl Hiassen... about which his website, tellingly, says: "All the novels are set in Florida, where they are read more as documentary than fiction."

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