Yeah, I started going there (mostly Longboat Key/Sarasota) in the early/mid-80s and while I was a kid, I remembered it as a far less busy, ostentatious place. But there's been an explosion of investment-focused real estate the last twenty years or so, and Florida was ground zero. In the last few years I visited Longboat, it's one road was constantly jammed with cars and the modest beach bungalows were largely replaced by gaudy mansions for Midwestern and Canadian snowbirds. Whatever charm I recall from my youth was destroyed.