Making Friends After 55 in a Northeast Florida Community

How do you build a whole new social life in a place you just moved to? Here is the worry people rarely say out loud when they plan a move to Florida. The house, the weather, the taxes -- those they can research. But somewhere on the drive south, a quieter question sits in the passenger seat: what if

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What the First Morning in Ponte Vedra Beach Feels Like -- and Why People Stay

Have You Ever Wondered What It Feels Like to Wake Up in Ponte Vedra Beach? The alarm doesn't go off -- you wake up on your own, earlier than usual, because something in the air is different. The light through the window is softer than you expected. You step outside onto the deck, coffee in hand, and

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What It's Like to Live Without Four Seasons in Northeast Florida

What happens to time when winter stops telling you what to do? There is a morning, usually in late January, when someone who moved here from the north walks outside in a t-shirt to get the mail and stops halfway down the driveway. The grass is green. A neighbor is jogging. The light is soft and gold

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