Destin has turned into a dump

Lived there for 10 years. Moved from there a year ago. Had to make a quick trip there this past week. The place has really gone downhill in a year since I was last there.

I counted 8 regular restaurants closed down. The roads are filthy with litter, all of the buildings look like they haven't been painted in 10 years. The medians all turned to weeds or no grass at all, the road construction is still not 100% completed on Hwy98. The water park looks awful. That place is such a shithole ripoff

Went over to the outlet mall and could not believe all of the stores closed at 7pm on a Thursday evening? What kind of shite is that?

Then, went over to Destin Commons and it was a depressing ghost town and looked very run down.

Boshamp Oysters (my favorite oysters of all times) - They are actually called Oysters Boshamps used to be $19.99 for a dozen, they are now $37 fricking dollars for the same dozen? WTF.

Harborwalk looked really ran down. The town just doesn't look very nice like it once did.

Now, of course the beaches are still beautiful and I will always love the Destin Harbor, but that 15 year old Mayor kid needs to step the frick up and clean up the town. It has turned to complete shite since he became Mayor of what was once a very nice little beach town. My beach house property is losing its value while sitting in that shithole while he is mayor.

It just looked to me that Destin is really struggling. All of the bullshite nickel and diming that I saw on my short visit was depressing.

This kid needs to step up