• 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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  • 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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  • Coastal home among green trees in Atlantic Beach, FL

    Builder Upgrades and Resale: Which Options Come Back at Closing

    How Much of That Design Center Bill Do You Actually Get Back? There is a moment in every new construction purchase that happens in a bright room with samples on the wall. You have already picked the lot and the floor plan. Now somebody slides a sheet across the table and everything on it sounds reas

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