Celebration, Florida
We are a long way from Florida now…but it still haunts us! This is from Celebration, Orlando, Florida…Celebration is Disney’s planned community…one can drive from Celebration right into Disney…in many ways, Celebration IS Disney, a suburban theme park….
Read about Celebration in Florida Trend magazine: LINK
“Along traffic-choked U.S. 192 near Orlando, a bucolic wooden water tower stands apart from the rest of the tourist-gaudy highway, set off by expansive green lawns and a white split-rail fence. A banner on the tower heralded the entrance to a new, made-from-scratch community: “Disney’s Town of Celebration.”…Celebration is full of type-A personalities highly involved in everything from the schools to the dozens of civic organizations they’ve formed in town. But they’ve also made Celebration something of a homogeneous, red-state enclave: Residents are generally conservative and have some of the highest voter registration and election turnout rates in central Florida. Big SUVs clog streets that were designed to promote walking: Downtown Celebration has a parking shortage. The median household income is $87,000, compared with surrounding Osceola County’s $38,200.”
Click here to see my photos of Celebration: LINK