Community Chat

[Reba055]

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@conlt wrote:

I live in St. Augustine and I have a friend who was a deputy sheriff for 10 years in Palm Coast (just retired out of there 2 years ago). He told me that there was Russian gang activity there. I think St. Augustine is a beautiful place to live. We live 1/2 hour north of Palm Coast. We have the outlets but most of the time I got to Jacksonville about 45 minutes to hit Costco or Sams. Tanager outlets are being built in Daytona on I95 and should open soon. I grew up in Massachusetts and I don't want to live any  further south than I do. Where I am in north Florida we get cold in December through the end of January or so. We get hot in June, July, August and September, really hot. from October to May is usually beautiful except this year we had hurricane Matthew. I have lived in St Augustine for 35 years now and would not like to live anywhere else. The mountains are 7 hours away, the beach is right here and we don't have snow. St. Johns County has the best health in the state and is the most wealthy county in Florida. We have a great life here. Palm Coast is not my thing. 

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@conlt  You know, I think I heard something about crime there. It's been a few years since I went down there. We spent the weekend at Hammock Beach or something like that. It was gorgeous and very expensive. I noticed then that most of the tourists (or maybe owners) seemed to be foreign. That was not long after the housing crisis and I wondered if foreign investors were buying the beachfront like they were in other areas. Not saying that as negative just that it didn't appear to be typical retirees. I think Palm Coast was set to take off before the crisis. At that time I believe it was anticipated that St John's county was growing so fast that it would run down to Palm Coast. Even St John's  slowed down but is up and going like crazy now.  

But back to the crime. I'm not sure where all that came from. 

St. John's county is great!