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Hippie🪸🐬• TBI survivor🧠•fmr NCAA athlete 🥍 • fmr White House Intern 🇺🇸•based & Christpilled✟ ☧🇻🇦• State Dir. @ACC_Florida 🦈🐊•Political Dir. FLYR🐘
Central Florida gets a bad rap, but the data and reality says otherwise. You could make a serious argument that Orlando is one of the best places in America to live right now. The Orlando metro was the fastest-growing large metro in the country last year, adding roughly 76,000 new residents in a single year with 2.7% population growth. And people aren’t moving to “Orlando.” They’re moving to incredible places like Horizon West, Winter Park, and Lake Nona. Horizon West exploded from ~14,000 residents in 2010 to nearly 75,000 in 2025 and has become one of the fastest-growing master planned communities in the country. Lake Nona has transformed into a legitimate innovation and health-tech hub with Medical City, UCF’s medical campus, biotech investment, autonomous transit programs, and one of the most ambitious mixed-use developments in the country. Winter Park gives you a completely different vibe, walkable streets, lakes, great restaurants, Rollins College, old Florida charm, and household incomes north of $130k for families. People talk about the heat, but the reality is Orlando has 8-9 months a year with incredible weather while much of the country is dealing with snow, gray skies, or brutal winters. And then there’s lifestyle. You get lake living almost year round. World-class golf. Boating. Restaurants. Professional sports. And the #1 tourist corridor on earth sitting 20 minutes away whenever you actually want it. Disney, Universal, concerts, conventions, Michelin-level dining, events, all accessible without needing to live in the middle of it. The business ecosystem is also way more developed than outsiders realize. Deloitte, Lockheed Martin, EA Sports, Siemens, KPMG, Disney, and a growing tech + healthcare ecosystem all have major operations here. Orlando’s GDP is approaching $200B. And MCO has quietly become one of the best airports in the country. When I lived in Dallas and Denver, out-of-town visitors came every few months. In Orlando, it’s basically every week. People underestimate Central Florida because they associate it with tourism. Meanwhile, a lot of us are over here wondering why more people haven’t figured it out yet. Cc: @kenpozek
News - After losing his primary, Thomas Massie has already filed to run again in KY-04 in 2028.
Pope Francis meets with representatives of Popular Movements, and encourages the fight against social injustices, reiterating his proposal for a Universal Basic Income and higher taxes for billionaires. loom.ly/zh-lb84
Visited Sec 60 at Arlington today and stopped at Sgt Nicole Gee's grave, who died at Abbey Gate five yrs ago in August. One of the 13 US and 160 Afghans lost. She's remembered today with flowers and Fireball whisky...Semper Fi..
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries. apnews.com/article/pope-a…
