i wasn't replying to you, i was replying to fog...but...
i dispute your claim about south florida tourism...
we are just short of 100,000 people in our entire county, and 14 million tourist came through here last year...
there are no major cities to absorb them, there are three towns in the entire county, the biggest is 18,000...everyone lives rurally here, the tourist keep the roads packed, in the winter when they take a very short break, i can drive to the grocery store in 7 minutes...in the summer when they're here, that can and does at times take 30-45 minutes...one way. you can sit at a major light for 4 to 5 cycles before you'll get through it. There used to be back ways around shit, but google maps shit all over that like a fucking goose.
the ONLY advantage we seem to have is our tourist don't seem to be quite as obnoxious as florida tourist, but that can vary on a case to case basis...