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Miami Herald, The (FL)
May 23, 2007
ARMANDO MARTINEZ
The way Armando Martinez sees it, you can only be in one place at one time. So he can live
with the fact that Flagler County has only one Outback Steakhouse.
"In South Florida, there are lines at all of them," says Martinez, 47. "Here, there is one, but you
walk right in."
Martinez left Miami six months ago, when he retired from a 20-year career with Miami police.
He became chief of the Bunnell Police Department and lives in much slower Palm Coast. He had
lived in South Florida since age 14.
He first got turned onto Central Florida in the 1980s, when he visited relatives in Brevard
County.
"Miami is a beautiful city. I would never say a bad thing about it. It will always have a special
place in my heart.
"But it was time for a slower pace," he says. "I don't have to leave an hour early to get to work
on time. If I want a faster pace or a fancy dinner, I go to St. Augustine or Orlando. It might seem
like a long drive, but going from Kendall to South Beach will take you 25 minutes. And then it
takes another 30 minutes to find parking, so it's the same thing really."
In short, he loves the new life.
"I love both Miami and Flagler, really. Like you love your mother and father. You love them
both, just different."
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