• Aerial view of the island green 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass, Ponte Vedra Beach

    Club Life in Northeast Florida: Golf, Beach and Social Memberships

    How Much of Life Here Happens at a Club? You notice it about six weeks in. Somebody asks where you play. Somebody else asks if you are at the beach club or the country club, as if those are the only two options and you should already know the difference. A neighbor mentions a member-guest and you no

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  • Bright living room with a ceiling fan in Jacksonville, FL

    The Flex Room: How Florida Retirees Actually Use the Extra Bedroom

    Do You Really Need Four Bedrooms When It Is Just the Two of You? It comes up on almost every second showing. You are standing in the doorway of a room at the front of a house in Nocatee or Silverleaf, and it is a perfectly nice room with a window and a closet and absolutely no purpose. Your spouse s

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  • Riverbank by the Main Street Bridge, Jacksonville, FL

    Northeast Florida After Dark: Learning to Live Outside at Night

    When Did Your Evenings Move Outside? It sneaks up on people. You come from somewhere with a real winter, so your mental picture of Florida is daytime. Beach, pool, golf, sun. Then you are eight months in, it is a Thursday in March, and you are eating dinner on the lanai at seven thirty with the fan

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