• People enjoying the beach on a clear day in St. Augustine, FL

    Moving From South Carolina to Northeast Florida: Two Coasts, Two Different Lives

    Why Would Anyone Leave the Lowcountry? This is the one move people apologize for. South Carolina is beautiful, the Lowcountry marsh is the same marsh we have here, and if you have spent years in Charleston or Bluffton or Mount Pleasant you already know what a live oak does to a street. But the peopl

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  • The city at night across the water in Jacksonville, FL

    What Road Projects Do to Northeast Florida Home Values

    Why Do Some Neighborhoods Take Off and Others Just Sit? There is a stretch of County Road 210 in St. Johns County where, not that long ago, you could drive for minutes and see pine, palmetto and a hand-painted sign for a nursery. Today it is a corridor of communities with names and gates and lagoons

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  • Yellow flower in a garden in Jacksonville, FL

    Kingsley Plantation and the Timucuan Preserve: The Oldest Layer of Northeast Florida

    What Was Here Before Any of This? The road onto Fort George Island narrows and the oaks close over it until you are driving through a green tunnel with Spanish moss brushing the roof of the car. Then the trees open and there is a two-story house looking out over the Fort George River, and in a long

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