Gainesville has grown, and to me, not in a good way. The traffic is horrendous. I both love going back home to see family, but hate driving around to get from one place to the other. It takes 10 minutes to go 2 miles in certain parts.
Besides graduating from UF, I grew up in Newberry just west of Gainesville, growing up around there, Gainesville was a small town and UF was half the number of students as now.