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Originally Posted by gap2415
Be sure to check out Englewood and especially Charlotte Harbor. You will get a Premiere style home, solidly built for less than a designer here. Great family area. PC has its own small beach and twin city Punta gorda has a good beach at the end of Marion Street. Excellent boating. We drove to Sarasota in half an hour. Additionally Fort Myers to the south is just a little farther so it puts you in the center of reaching both within an hour and both have airports. PC also has an airport, a fairly new one. I lived on Siesta Key but it got way to overcrowded so we moved to Port Charlotte before coming here. I miss the boating and sand but hopefully the activities here will make up for that. Eg. You can get a 2400-2700 sf home, on canal, with pool, trey ceilings, granite, all tile for $250...older ones are less. Their market had not yet totally recovered.
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Don't forget to figure in the outrageous cost of homeowner's insurance in those places by the water. We could have bought a beautiful condo on Sarasota Bay, but the amenities were well over $700/month due to the insurance. And that was a condo, not a single family residence.
We spent two winters on Anna Maria Island, and I was concerned about the advanced age of the residents and the horrible traffic. It was a good 45 minutes to get from Bradenton to Sarasota in February.