Grady Judd might be great, but from my understanding, there’s a drug problem in Polk County, too. So it’s a buyer beware kind of thing. Maybe that’s in every county in every state these days, though.
Decades of “entertainment” promoting drugs ,people wanting instant gratification(euphoria),enormous cash money.....yes,every community has a drug problem even those that pretend not.
Having lived in Polk County for 20 some years before leaving in 2006 I had extensively traveled around the county. Polk County is huge. Huge. And once you get out of the western side, Lakeland, Winter Haven, Plant City, and the portions that border Hillsborough county (Tampa Bay area) it’s a huge expansive, empty area. Which is why it has been a really bad thing for meth and other drugs. It’s simply too much land for the county law enforcement to stay on top of.
By way of illustration Polk County is double the size of Rhode Island and equal to the size of Delaware. And this is simply a County with four or five cities of any consequence at all.