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Old 03-11-2012, 09:42 AM
 
Location: Delaware
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Hi everyone!!

I currently live in Northern Delaware and my husband and I along with our 5 year old son are looking to move to Florida. I was researching online good areas to move to on the Gulf Coast (I need warm weather all year!!) I was thinking the Sarasota area.

I am looking for advice, location and weather wise. I'm set on the schools!

My husband is concerned Hurricaine wise being on the coast line, also I was wondering if there are certain locations better for raising our son?

Thanks so much!!!
Carina
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Old 03-11-2012, 10:29 AM
 
Location: Lakewood Ranch, FL
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Hi Carina. If you can be more specific about what you want to learn, I think you'll get a better response. There are great areas throughout the suncoast to live and raise a family but there are some that have an edge in one respect or another over others and, of course, no one area has it all. What are your wants/needs with respect to a neighborhood choice? Your budget? Features most important to you?
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Old 03-11-2012, 12:34 PM
 
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Hi everyone!!

I currently live in Northern Delaware and my husband and I along with our 5 year old son are looking to move to Florida. I was researching online good areas to move to on the Gulf Coast (I need warm weather all year!!) I was thinking the Sarasota area.

I am looking for advice, location and weather wise. I'm set on the schools!

My husband is concerned Hurricaine wise being on the coast line, also I was wondering if there are certain locations better for raising our son?

Thanks so much!!!
Carina
What schools are you set on ?
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Old 03-11-2012, 12:43 PM
 
Location: Sarasota/ Bradenton - University Pkwy area
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Hi Carina,

Since schools are a high priority with you, here's a site by the FL Dept of Education that gives you access to their rankings of all 67 school districts in the state of FL: School Accountability Report .

Sarasota and Manatee are the local counties for the Sarasota and Bradenton areas.

The local newspaper, the Sarasota Herald Tribune, ran a story in January that discusses how our school districts came out in the rankings, I posted a summary here on city-data at that time:
//www.city-data.com/forum/saras...s-schools.html

We've been very fortunate here in the Sarasota area of the gulf coast in respect to hurricanes. NOAA puts out statistics all the way back to 1900 as to what cities have been hit and how frequently by hurricanes. In FL, Miami has a 1 in 6 chance of getting hit by a hurricane in any year, while Daytona Beach further north has only a 1 in 50 chance. On the west coast of FL, Ft. Myers has a 1 in 11 chance of getting hit and the Tampa Bay area a 1 in 25 chance. The panhandle is also more vulnerable, with a 1 in 8 chance for Pensacola.

Tornadoes, floods, brush fires, blizzards, ice storms, hail, earthquakes.... I can't think of any state in the US that is free from the impacts of Mother Nature. I have a number of relatives and friends located in the midwest. They got off fairly easy this winter, but last winter it was snowstorm after snowstorm. I have photos my brother sent to me of 6 foot tall snow drifts in his driveway. Yeah, I think I'll take my chances and stick with our beautiful winters here in SW Florida.
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Old 03-11-2012, 02:18 PM
 
Location: Delaware
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Thank you for all your responses!!!

Features most important would be a family oriented neighborhood since I have a 5 year old. Somewhere close to parks and recreation, as we also have 2 dogs. We like to be outside alot, and the winters up here (although this winter was a mild one), keep us in alot. I hate the cold!!! Schools, I went onto great schools and reviewed the schools in the Sarasota, also from forums, I've heard Sarasota has some of the best schools in Florida, unless they were lying to get me there, lol just kidding! I would be looking for single homes also, not condos or townhomes.
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Old 03-11-2012, 07:20 PM
 
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Hi everyone!!

I currently live in Northern Delaware and my husband and I along with our 5 year old son are looking to move to Florida. I was researching online good areas to move to on the Gulf Coast (I need warm weather all year!!) I was thinking the Sarasota area.

I am looking for advice, location and weather wise. I'm set on the schools!

My husband is concerned Hurricaine wise being on the coast line, also I was wondering if there are certain locations better for raising our son?

Thanks so much!!!
Carina
Real simple answer -->34238 The only one you can't lose on. Read my myriad of other posts for smart investment reasons.

The next best investment performer of 13 Sarasota zip codes.
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Old 03-12-2012, 05:10 PM
 
Location: Delaware
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Awesome! Thank you I will check out that zipcode!!!
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Old 03-12-2012, 06:40 PM
 
Location: Lakewood Ranch, FL
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I'd be wary of online investment advice that guarantees that you can't lose. You might ask about the guarantee.

It's not Sarasota but you might want to look into Lakewood Ranch along with the other neighborhoods. It has everything you mentioned, and then some.
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Old 03-12-2012, 07:00 PM
 
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I'd be wary of online investment advice that guarantees that you can't lose. You might ask about the guarantee.

It's not Sarasota but you might want to look into Lakewood Ranch along with the other neighborhoods. It has everything you mentioned, and then some.
I second this advice^^^.
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Old 03-13-2012, 06:17 AM
 
Location: NC Piedmont
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My husband is concerned Hurricaine wise being on the coast line, also I was wondering if there are certain locations better for raising our son?
Look at this page:
Florida Hurricane Info
and the map of FL with probabilities based on history. Follow the link to a chart on the whole US and you will see that FL has the highest number but you have to put that in perspective. I am currently in NC, where we have had 25 that are on that chart (since 1900) and FL has had 57. Sounds like the odds are way worse in FL, right? Not so fast - FL has 1350 miles of coastline (580 Atlantic, 770 Gulf). NC has 300. Factor those in and any particular mile of the NC coast has way worse odds. (EDIT - by worse odds, I mean higher chance of a bad thing happening - any given mile of NC coast is more than twice as likely to have a hurricane land as a mile of FL coast)

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