Bonita Bay

Today’s agenda highlight: dinner with cousin Lin and her husband, Jim, at Bonita Bay, a very exclusive development in Bonita Springs. They bought two lots at Bonita Bay and built a ginormous house in the middle. The separate poolhouse is two storeys and has three bedrooms and is dwarfed by the sprawling house.

I try not to think about the carbon emissions involved in air conditioning a house that only one person lives in most of the time, while her husband is on a private jet criss crossing the country.

Southern Florida is blanketed with these developments of massive houses that are kept at a very cool temperature. It’s a bit like Dubai or Kuwait--heavily populated and entirely unsustainable.
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