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For those whose heart will always remain in The Villages, it is a nice getaway to tour Kennedy Space Center or even watch the monthly rocket launches bringing care packages to the space shuttle.......or depart on a cruise.......or just enjoy the empty beaches.........not to mention the great deep sea fishing excursion boats from Port Canaveral down to Sebastian Inlet.....entire area has beautiful empty beaches.


Disney's Cruise ships leave Port Canaveral as well......and the Disney Beach Resort is slightly to the south of this space coast area.......it's down by Vero Beach which is below Sebastian Inlet.


We know people from "up north" who bought condo timeshares on Satellite Beach and just love the laid back, leisurely lifestyle they can enjoy........so much so that they bought permanent homes.

We also have friends who have other friends who are still stationed at Patrick Air Force Base, on the beach, after all these years and still love it.


Again, a quiet low population area..........NOT a lot of traffic to this day........due to the low population.


The population is low due to the narrowness of the barrier islands; no place else to build out in either direction. Many homes totally updated and remodeled.


Plenty of retirees but also families with children. A nice mix and a safe area. Great high school in Satellite Beach. Great Catholic school in Indialantic.


Again, it's a buyer's market at present........what we recall most is that there never was any traffic........no matter where we went. A1A was empty. Our developement was empty.


Our one year rental home was on a canal with a dock.......you could look across at a distance to the other side of the water to see the people's pools inside their lanais and their boats at their docks............nice for boaters. Your boat in your backyard, at your own dock........how great is that? It wasn't that close across the canal as is a "kissing lanai". We didn't see details.....just could see the backs of the homes.....across the water.


If a canal front home is not in the stars.......then there is a nice free Eau Gallie boat ramp, etc., etc. in addition to the Eau Gallie Yacht Club for members.


Indialantic has some really nice restaurants including a great breakfast place, THE BLUEBERRY MUFFIN I believe it's called.

Nice shops for every need on Fifth Avenue plus a Walmart and a Publix.


Some super nice expensive homes on the waterfront (Indian River Lagoon/Intracoastal Waterway) in Indialantic and Satellite Beach too.


Million dollar homes with their own docks.......nice for a sailboat....all the way down to Sebastian Inlet. Boating men would never be bored, that's for sure.


The only golf course I know of is the one on Patrick Air Force Base, but there may be one on the mainland.........a very short hop across one of the three causeways.


We are not golfers, so it wouldn't matter. We loved the beauty of the beaches in Florida, as long as it was an empty stretch........and this is it.
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On the Gulf of Mexico.......another pristine beautiful WHITE SAND beach is Nokomis Beach, a small town next to Venice on the way up to Sarasota......


From Nokomis Beach......you go to Casey Key........pretty expensive if I remember correctly. Both beautiful pristine white sand beaches. Gorgeous turquoise water.


Alas, the Gulf of Mexico beaches have the red tide bacteria.


We returned to Vermont, from Satellite Beach, because we missed the four seasons, NOT because we didn't like the Space Coast.........and so that our daughter could begin 1st grade in town.


However at our age now, these oppressively cold winters made us realize that the four seasons can be revisited when we visit our kids.........better to live in a flat land warmer climate at our age.


Nothing is cast in stone as of yet. Getting ready to put the house on the market in May.........if the snow ever melts. Hubby thinks it might take two to three years , however, I believe it will sell quickly...........unless people read the New York Times article of this past week.