I have not been there. I can only tell you what I heard. The government bought I don't know how many square miles of swampland in Florida; it's a lot. I think it was in the thousands, not positive. Since it can't be used for anything, some of it was turned into parks or some other form of recreation.

I don't know how much of the Ocala National Forest includes swampland. I have heard good things about it and people did buy vacation homes in that area. That was in the distant past.

I understand there were some economic troubles in that part of the state; that alone would not make it go downhill as it did. Something terrible would have to happen for everybody to abandon a nearby town and vacation homes, especially the vacation homes.

Jeanette Isabelle