kontextmaschine:

Recalling that retirement communities form in low cost-of-living areas without jobs for every service-consuming resident, that bit in the original Portlandia “Dream of the 90s” song about how Portland was “where young people go to retire” was dead on for 2011

Worth noting this is basically why Florida has been such a retirement paradise – there’s never been any primary economic purpose to Florida, so there was no huge call to go there and do anything (well, citrus growers, I guess).

Tourism, too, is a mechanism by which people inhabit and spend money in an area but do not fill jobs there.

Now that it’s bootstrapped its way up, Florida’s appeal is its sizeable population, either to provide goods and services to, or to serve as a large potential employee pool for your generic office- or manufacturing park small business.