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Interlachen, FL
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Great potential; when it leaves the dark ages.
Lived in the area for 4 years.
I still believe the area itself is high in its potential to be a wonderful place to live, but the people have got to be willing to change. Abundant nature & wildlife. Good fishing & boating are all close by. Not a bad 25 minute drive to Gainesville (Home of UF "Gators").
That being said, the town population is a very high religious, republican, welfare town.... That's right, conventional wisdom is defied here.. The God and Guns vote trumps the political Republican agenda against so-called "socialism" here.. Yet, everyone has their food stamps. Which leads into my next statement; POOR education! Not totally the teachers fault, however, when you begin a science lesson to students (such as the process of evolution) with a disclaimer of, "this is not what 'I' believe", the system has issues. Combine a population with a largely hill-billy education, a church building of some type within every square mile, with a Good 'ol boy run govt., and you've got Interlachen, Fl.