We would find developments like this and have large bonfire parties out in the wilderness.
Find some photos of cape coral (next to ft.myers) from the early seventies.
They used to fly hundreds of people down from new england for a free weekend in the sun.
Sell them a quarter acre lot. Dollar down, dollar a week.
Hundreds of square miles of streets and canals. The asphalt was one inch thick. The canals were three feet deep.