Sanford is heavily populated by POC.
Amazingly, downtown has an awesome German restaurant called Hollerbachs. Always drop in there when over that way
Used to regularly drive down from Palatka to eat at Hollerbachs. Another favorite was European Cafe & Schnitzel House in Ormond Beach.
Seems to be safer to stay in the boonies w/ 8-10 foot ‘gators.
For the past 30+ years, Sanford's growth has been mainly fueled by undesirables. The demographic deterioration is not hard to track:
Sanford was never all that great to begin with, but Seminole County was overall a nice place once. Like Sanford, the county as a whole apparently absorbed too much garbage from Orange County and other places, a process which accelerated in the 1990s and reached a critical mass more recently (e.g. flipping and voting Democrat for President for the first time in over 70 years).
In terms of voter registrations, while the rest of the state shows a growing GOP percentage the opposite is now true in Seminole County. Sad to see.