Subject: Re: Zakaria, for the usual suspects who
But is FL really doing that? Is there really space available?

Oh, sure. There's tons of space in central Florida. Take, for example, the area near The Villages. The Villages is a massive retirement/elderly community well northwest of Orlando, with some 150K residents. It's literally the fastest growing place in the entire country. It's surrounded by vacant land - to the east to US 441, to the west to I-75, and almost unlimited area to the South. Which is why it's expected to nearly double in population within the next ten years or so:

https://www.google.com/maps/pl...

....and that's just one single community in north-central Florida. That part of the state is nowhere close to full. Sure, there's lots of conservation areas and preserves scattered about - but there's also massive amounts of land that's either just undeveloped or very marginal ag land.