It just seems that way because Florida has laws that release arrest records to the public as soon as they happen . Most of the Florida Man stories happen everywhere else , it ' s just easier for the media to get gems from Florida . <| sep |> Yep , wizards live for a long time ! According to the Wiki By the beginning of the 1990 s , he was retired and living in Dorset . At some point during the 19931994 school year , he visited Hogwarts . Source <| sep |> Throughout the naughties the bank I was working for had a big offshore drive , back office , customer support , IT , the lot . Our HO of over 6 , 000 people was reduced down to just over 2 , 000 . I basically spent the next decade fire fighting all the shit that ultimately followed . It ' s stuff like that which makes you realise how few people actually know what they ' re bloody doing .