• Two-story porch home in the Abbott Tract, St. Augustine, FL

    Your First Year in Northeast Florida: What Actually Changes

    What Does The First Twelve Months Down Here Actually Feel Like? The first month is a vacation that will not end. You keep driving over the Intracoastal bridge and looking at the water like it is going to disappear. You eat outside constantly. You send pictures. Then somewhere around month four, some

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  • Bridge with the city behind it in Jacksonville, FL

    Finding Your Doctors: How Newcomers Build a Care Team in Northeast Florida

    Who Do You Call When You Have Only Lived Here Six Weeks? It is one of the quieter anxieties of relocating, and it tends to hit people around week four. Not the boxes, not the address changes. The realization that the doctor who has known you for eighteen years is now a thousand miles away. For anyon

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  • Aerial view of the city and a bridge in Jacksonville, FL

    Buying Before You Sell in Northeast Florida: How People Actually Do It

    How Do You Buy The Next House Without Selling The One You Are Standing In? It is the question that stops more moves than price ever does. You found the house. It is in the right neighborhood, it has the lanai you wanted, and there is a competing offer coming. And every dollar you would use to buy it

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