Virginia

and have always been grateful to my parents for moving soon afterward, although I don't think it was their idea at the time. It was a very different place nearly 80 years ago, mosly interior swamp and palmetto forest and coasts of unspoiled beaches.

Well, it's almost all spoiled now, thanks to rampant development along with reckless destruction of wetlands and draining of aquifers.

My parents retired there and while my dad thought it was where good people went when they died, my mother said she loved to see the big condo high rises being built because they'd make Florida sink faster.

Now thayt they're gone, I have no reason to return to that state. That makes me happy.