• Long pier stretching into the ocean in Jacksonville Beach, FL

    Moving From Iowa to Northeast Florida: What Actually Changes

    What Does It Feel Like to Trade Corn for Coastline? The thing Iowans tell me they miss is the sky. Not the weather. The sky. That enormous flat lid of it over a section road in August, the way you can watch a storm build for forty minutes before it arrives. Northeast Florida does not give you that.

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  • Raised home with a wraparound porch in Fullerwood Park, St. Augustine

    Your Northern Home Is Not Selling. Now What?

    The Plan Was Simple and Then It Was Not You did everything in order. Picked the community. Made the trip down. Got the house up north cleaned out, painted, photographed and listed in the spring. And now it is fall, there have been eleven showings and no offers, and the Florida plan you built a two-y

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  • White two-story home with porches in St. Augustine, FL

    Moving From Arizona to Northeast Florida: Trading Dry Heat for Green

    You Are Not Leaving Because of the Weather. You Are Leaving Because of the Green. People who move from Arizona to Florida almost never say the heat drove them out. They knew about the heat. They chose the heat. What they say instead is something about water. About how they got tired of gravel yards

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