Another YouTuber named Peter Santanello did a episode of his podcast about the Red Neck Riviera sometime in the last year. He goes all over the world doing videos with one of the “locals”.
In that one he visited those small former fishing villages east of Mexico beach. He showed how you could still buy a gulf front house there for under a million.
That the people living there were all “salt of the earth” types. A real Republican stronghold. I made me want to move there.
FYI, Peter grew up in Burlington, VT. He has been in over 80 countries making his podcast videos. He too now lives in Florida. However, he did a video about how much his hometown of Burlington has changed from when he grew up there.
It was really sad what the Bernie Sanders liberals have down to VT.
I was in Vermont last summer for the first time in years. We attended an opera festival in Brattleboro, a truly depressing town, down on its heels. While we didn’t see Burlington, we did see lots of beautiful scenery and some very quaint little villages.
Funny enough, one of my wife’s Miami friends just relocated to a beautiful mountainside property in an exclusive community: over 10,000 sq. ft. in a house built for the novelist John Irving: it even had a wrestling room! (Irving was a competitive wrestler.)
I had to take a drive recently to St. Albans and passed through Burlington. The last time I was there ( around 1985) we sailed my buddies boat from Willsboro (NY side) to Burlington, tied to a pier and walked into town for a beer. When I drove through last month I didn't even recognize it.