There are no words to describe what I saw in Pasco County, Florida.

If you’ve never heard of Pasco County, then you probably don’t live in Florida. It’s an averagesized county with a medium population that’s just north of Tampa. There’s not much up here it’s mostly rural where there’s blueberry farms and olive groves. Small towns and good people. The most well known city here is probably New Port Richey.

But soon, like the rest of Florida, much of this county will be under development. Housing communities are pushing in here big time. All over east Pasco, there's land ripped up and lots and lots of construction.

The day before I came to Pasco, I had seen LOTS of growth over in Polk County, right next door. Over there is the fastest growing county in the state. Major growth is happening all over central Florida, and a lot of it is spilling over here into Pasco County, too.

This county has been VERY rural for a long time, and is known for being trashy. Actually, Floridians call this the most trashy place in the state. It’s said the east side of Pasco County is where they make the drugs for the people in west Pasco.

One part of the county, though, has the biggest negative reputation of all. It’s called Moon Lake Acres. So I went there to see what it looked like. And WTF people.

Moon Lake Acres appears to be the remnants of a larger real estate development. The Moon Lake Gardens and Dude Ranch was started in the 1930s as an exclusive private nature reserve where members could fish, hunt, and generally relax among managed gardens and fields. It was reportedly a popular place until World War II ground things to a halt. Moon Lake Gardens had to close due to travel restrictions and difficulty in finding employees to staff the resort.

After the War, the grounds were sold to a real estate corporation which laid it off in lots and graded a network of roads to access the area. Unfortunately for the realtors, Moon Lake Acres proved too remote to attract interest despite the Florida population boom. Consequently, the lots were sold off in the 1950s at discounted rates to mostly locals who usually couldn't afford to put up anything more substantial than trailers and small frame homes. The area received the standard electrical, telephone, and trash removal services. The county grades the unpaved roads periodically; most of the paved roads hadn't been resurfaced since they were first built in the late 1940s. For the most part Moon Lake Acres hadn't received any substantial improvements in the last 70 years.

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