I have a feeling this thread will be short lived but "in before the lock" as they say with the one observation that was very obvious to us when we first spent a rental month down here was that "this place has virtually everything going for it except for diversity." Being from the NJ/NY area my entire life it took some getting used to. We also observed it had lot's of veterans which was nice to see as my father was one of the "greatest generation" (we brought him down here just before he passed and he loved that) and way too many dogs
but very little diversity. Despite that we made it our "final resting place"
because you just can't beat the lifestyle down here.