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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sigh. The Gulf side used to be the best kept secret of Florida.

No more. Since the pandemic, it's been discovered and the entire atmosphere has changed.

There are A LOT more people visiting and A LOT of those people were former East Coast of Florida regulars.

[/b]The old rule of thumb was the East Coast of FL was for East Coast people (NY, NJ) and the West Coast was for Midwesterners (IL, OH, MI)[b]

You could go to Gulf beaches even during high season and still find a space where there was 50 feet between you and anyone else. Not anymore.  Many beaches are packed like Coney Island and if you don't get there by 8 a.m. you will not get parking - the lots simply are not big enough to handle the new influx of visitors.

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and the panhandle was for Southerners. We went to Seaside every summer starting in 1989 I think right when it was first being developed. It was almost exclusively families from the South (Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee primarily but some from SC and NC too).[/quote]

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