Wow, you made 3,000 people want to leave...I lived in St. Augustine from 1981-1996. Then it started getting very crowded and I moved to Georgia. I had already left St. Petersburg after 34 years. Now I live on 118 acres in rural Georgia. When I moved here the population for the entire county was 17,000. Now it is 14,000. I don't think I will be moving again.