Florida Tent Cities

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I keep reading about tent cities springing up in Florida. Some are popular and others have popularity that city officials weren't expecting. The GAINESVILLE SUN reported that Gainesville's popular tent city has become a nightmare for city officials when it ended up attracted ... guess what ... more homeless. At the same time, Orlando Sentinel ran an article about a tent city that had well-received popularity as it attracted money-welding NASCAR race fans. While a tent isn't an Orlando rental home, I understand that canvass residency in the Speedway can be very memorable -- especially if you like hitchhiking down to the Cracker Barrel. Not to say that the Gainesville attraction is any less memorable. But there is a difference between dining at Cracker Barrel and trying to live by a cracked barrel.