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I live in an area of FL known as the "Space Coast," but not along the Space Coast, as I moved inland years n years n decades ago, because owning a single family dewlling along the shore was above my pay grade even during the best of times, which were pretty good earning periods for sure but not single-stream-income-beach-house-ownership-material good, and required a major life experiences trade-off as well, since as noted my thing by then (when not busy being a weekend rock-n-roll warrior) had turned into beach metal detecting and I went from needing to walk across the street to needing to drive a minimum of 21 miles to first find parking before getting to feel sand between my toes -- which is a silly saying cos I never metal detect barefoot on beaches, or anywhere else for that matter..

Anyhowww, thanks to the miracle of this heah interwebs thing it's sooo easy these days to take a gander at where anyone lives.. My little slice of reality is a quadrant bordered on the N by Titusville, FL, S by Cocoa, FL, E by US 1 along the Indian River and W by I-95.. And convenience should be purposed-based too, I suppose.. I can actually drive from where I live to the Santa Monica, CA pier and hit five fewer stoplights than I can between where I live and the Cocoa Beach, FL pier.. So there's that..

Crescent City, you say..? Now there's a chunk of FL yer average tourist / snowbird doesn't normally see.. Actually, these days it's a hunka FL yer average resident never sees either.. Not exactly on any beaten path.. I love it..!

Swamp

's'truth.. You could take Crescent City n drop it anywhere in the country where the land is flat that isn't considered semi-arid and it would look like it had been there always.. Smallville, USA, and not even at a crossroad..


Of the few snowbirds I know, almost all of them stay on a barrier island but not along the beach.. Their winter homes (usually small-to-medium condos) are anywhere from a couple to several blocks off the beach, which in Cape Canaveral & Cocoa Beach can easily put you right back along water -- the Banana River instead of the ocean.. That short distance can easily be a six figure difference in comparable dwelling purchase price.. Beyond that, taxes etc are the same.. It's a no brainer for better-off-but-not-wealthy retirees..

Point being, those folks do not come down here for just two-to-three months, at least not any longer.. They're now here for five-to-six months.. They all say basically the same thing: If I'm going to escape winter, I'm going to escape winter..! They get here before the snow flies and don't head back north until their rivers are ice-free.. Must be nice; I'd do it if I could too..

If your folks are going to continue doing this yearly, eventually one of two things will happen: They will either start spending more time here or they'll not show up until later in the year or even into the following year so they don't have to head back north until at least mid-April..

That's the only way the complaining stops, cos no one likes to leave here to still be faced with two more months of winter..

Swamp