This, exactly.........

MCO is where seniority goes to die. The progression up the CA list is very slow. Every time a pilot retires, another senior guy with 5 years left prepositions for retirement. It's been that way for every one of the 22 years I've been an MCO capt, and I don't see it changing anytime soon, unless there is significant change in the political climate here.

More than a few on the top of the FO list can be relatively senior CAs in MCO and senior in almost every other domicile.

Someone else mentioned the traffic.

They are building homes on every single square inch of available space in FL, with very little in the way of road infrastructure improvements to accommodate the exponential increase in traffic.

What is an hour drive now will become significantly longer in the near future.

I commuted from SWFL to MCO for 18 years. The unfettered overdevelopment is the reason we finally moved to within an hour of MCO. The commute was not only getting significantly longer, it finally became untenable when I couldn't get out of the county in time to make it to work. What was a 2:45 drive in the middle of the night was already averaging 4 hours on the way up in the daytime, and that was before I-75 (the only route out of the county) was shutting down almost daily. I can't imagine dealing with the I-4 corridor going to work these days. It's gotten exponentially worse since I stopped driving it and I was only on it for 17 miles or so. Even 417 is a goatrope these days.

Sadly, the same nonsense is happening up here now. My only hope is that it doesn't reach critical mass before I retire.