• What Independence Day Feels Like When You Live at the Beach,Joey Larsen

    What Independence Day Feels Like When You Live at the Beach

    What does the Fourth of July feel like when the beach is your backyard? You're standing at the water's edge just after sunrise, and the beach belongs entirely to you and a handful of others who couldn't sleep in either. The morning is already warm. The tide is coming in, and the sound of the surf ha

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  • What a Slow Coastal Morning Feels Like in Vilano Beach,Joey Larsen

    What a Slow Coastal Morning Feels Like in Vilano Beach

    What does it feel like to wake up somewhere that is in no hurry at all? The light comes up over the Atlantic first, the way it always does on this side of Florida, and Vilano Beach takes its time waking with it. A few early walkers are already on the sand. A pelican works the shallows. Across the in

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  • Rent Before You Buy: Test-Driving Northeast Florida Before You Commit,Joey Larsen

    Rent Before You Buy: Test-Driving Northeast Florida Before You Commit

    What if you could try on a community before you committed your life savings to it? You would never buy a car you had not driven, or a pair of shoes you had not walked in. Yet people regularly buy a home in a brand-new city, sight nearly unseen, on the strength of a few visits and a good feeling. Som

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