Above all rent if possible in couple of areas, what makes some residents happy in one area doesn’t mean it will fit your needs. The newer area have younger residents, and retail isn’t as high the their list. Amazon and Kroger trucks frequent areas.
We travel to Gainesville UF for healthcare, which on a good day is an hour and 5 from our house. Plus if we eat out, pleather of restaurants since we usually do an overnight.
Take your time figure out what is important and what is a non starter.
Our list of how many times we traveled to SS was 3-4 times a year.
LSL area couple time a month.
We travel turnpike and 1-75 couple times a week, so we continue to move south
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