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Every person who moves to Florida hears it eventually. Usually from someone who has lived here for at least a year. Ask anyone about October Florida living and they will tell you the same thing. “Wait until October.” Nobody explains what October is like. They just say wait. And if you have only been here … Read more
When people start planning a move to Florida, they research home prices, insurance costs, and property taxes. Healthcare access rarely makes that list, and then it becomes the only question that matters the first time someone gets sick. That’s backwards, especially if you’re 55 or older, or you’re helping a parent plan a move. Where … Read more
If you’ve driven anywhere the past couple of weeks, you already know love bug season is back. Your windshield is speckled, your bumper looks like it lost a fight, and every gas station has someone scraping bugs off their grille with a squeegee. Newer residents always ask the same thing: is this a Florida-only problem? … Read more
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