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By the middle of summer, it happens in almost every Florida neighborhood. A bag of mangoes shows up on your porch. Then another. Your neighbor’s mango tree has gone into overdrive, there’s more fruit than one household could possibly eat, and suddenly it’s everyone’s problem, in the best possible way. Mango season in Florida is … Read more
A couple Octobers ago, Hurricane Milton pushed into the Gulf and every local news station dropped everything else to cover it. Time flies. Here’s the part I actually remember: not the wind, not the rain, but eight hours parked at a gas station. The pumps had fuel. Something in the system kept messing up. I … Read more
Before I relocated here from Connecticut, I spent months choosing a neighborhood from a laptop screen. I had a map covered in color-coded pins for every area people told me to look at, and after enough scrolling, the dots stopped meaning anything at all. It wasn’t until I actually got here and stood on the … Read more
The afternoons here will keep you inside. June through September, from about 2 PM until the storm rolls through and clears, you're not going anywhere you don't have to. But that's not the whole picture. The evenings here in summer are a different thing entirely. Anyone who's lived here through a full August will tell … Read more
If you’re thinking about moving to this part of Florida, you’ve probably heard the traffic is bad. People who’ve been here a while will tell you the same thing. It is. But here’s what most relocation guides leave out: Tampa Bay traffic is predictable in a way that makes it manageable for most people who … Read more