Living in Green Cove Springs Florida Pros and Cons Revealed!

So you're thinking about moving to Jacksonville Florida but you're kind of interested in Green Cove Springs and you're wondering I wonder what that place is like what's some pros and cons well you're in luck because today we're going to cover the good and bad the ying and yang the pros and cons of living in Green Cove Springs right here in Clay County right here in Florida and you're going to want to stick around at the end because I'm going to have one really amazing pro at the end that you don't want to miss and we're getting after it right now if this is your first time to this Channel and you want to know everything about living in Jacksonville Florida or like today greencoast Springs subscribe below and tap the bell for notifications so you can be the first to learn about the current market conditions here in Jacksonville my name is Jay wike and I'm a local real estate agent and we get calls texts emails every day from people just like you they're looking for help moving to this area and we absolutely love it so whether you're moving in nine days or 90 days give us a call shoot us a text and send email know or even click that Zoom link we're happy to help you make a smooth move to Jacksonville so let's not wait around let's get started on the pros and cons here we go so we're going to talk about the pros and cons and living in Green Cove Springs Florida Green Coast Springs it's a small town in Clay County it sits across the River from St John's County I did a video on St John's multiple videos on St John so St John's is just across the river off of State Road 16 and just across on the Clay County side is greenhouse Springs so here's the first pro which is going to be affordable housing Green Coast Springs you can still buy a single family home here brand new construction for under three hundred thousand dollars it's a three bedroom two bath with a two-car garage great planned Community you can still do it for under 300. the median price for a home here is 327 thousand dollars you can definitely go much higher and build a much larger house or buy a much larger house if you want to go smaller there's also options of course for that too but yeah Green Cove Springs as far as affordable housing available housing I've featured many new construction communities that are in this area and of course if you want to buy a resale home we can help you with that too so here's one of the cons believe it or not there's actually a little bit of traffic here during rush hour so from like I'd say from four till seven you are going to have some traffic that loads up in the middle of town right off State Road 17 there's like three traffic lights and during that period of time the cars will kind of load up there and they get cleared out as traffic lights change you'll have a little bit of backup there you're also going to get a little bit of backup in the residential areas where they've built a lot of the new construction homes those roads are still two lane roads and when you put that many folks in all at one time in those areas they have to expand the roadways and widen roadways and that's going to take a little bit of time so you have to ask yourself is it worth it to buy here now get ahead of the curve have some baked in equity because I can tell you that over time this town is probably going to boom and I'll elaborate on that later on down the line and especially in my map video so you want to check that out here's another Pro the county headquarters for Clay County is right here in Green Cove Springs so the courthouse all of the administrative offices the police department all that stuff it's right here in Green Cove Springs and if you want to of course take care of anything administratively hopefully you don't ever have to go to court or any of that kind of stuff also the library very headquarters is here everything's right here in Clay County I mean the headquarters of Clay County is right here in Green Cove Springs here's a con which is going to be heat and humidity here in Florida and even in North Florida and even here in Green Cove Springs you are going to have some months with heat and humidity I would say probably five months of the year you could potentially have true temps that are going to get up into the 90s it'll feel like it's over a hundred but it won't get over 100. you will have humidity which is up in the 90 degree you will get daily rain in a lot of cases we've Sometimes some thundershowers but they don't last very long but everything's pretty much clean and green around here you can see for yourself I would say that it's definitely worth it also to live here because in the winter time though it's going to be very nice like today we're in February the beginning of February when I shot this and I'm wearing a t-shirt and shorts and hopefully you're not seeing too much perspiration on my shirt here but yeah it's very pleasant it's not humid at all there's a really nice breeze it's gorgeous so winter is just wonderful here here's another Pro here in Green Cove Springs there's a lot of history it's very rich in history there's museums in here in town There's model like scale trains that you can look at as well just so a little bit of the background back in the 1800s nearly 1900s a lot of trading was going on in this community through Steam ships also a lot with the railroads but if you look around town there's still a lot of vintage kids historic homes which of course you could purchase as well or but yeah it's just a wonderful area for history and it's great so here's one of the cons which is going to be the potential for strong weather if you will can there be tornado warnings can there be hail could there be a hurricane offshore that comes through the area it definitely always a possibility I've got an iPhone I get tornado warnings and watches they are very rare that I get those notifications and I'm and I live very close to this area hail hail does happen it's usually isolated if you have a hail occurrence and you own a home you would probably want to get your roof checked out because potentially you could have a claim and that's the reason that you want to have homeowners insurance of course and you got to have it if you have a mortgage so anyway that covers it for the for the hail piece as far as hurricanes go we're very much Inland at this point so you are not right off of the coast you don't have to worry about ocean coming anywhere close to here can the tidal surge impact the level of the Saint John's River yes it can that is a possibility can there be strong winds that might come across the river and impact boat docks yes yes it definitely can happen it can happen yes but that's definitely things you want to take into consideration is it worth living here overall despite those things I would have to say I think so yes it is here's another Pro which is obvious but you're very close to the river so you're going to have beautiful sunrises of the river Over The Creeks of course you can have sunsets you've got fishing boating water it's just it's gorgeous and you don't have to worry about salt water impacts or any of that kind of stuff on your boat because you're not going to get Barnacles in here any of that kind of stuff salt spray on your windows you're not going to get any of that in here it's just it's gorgeous place and I don't know if you can hear but you're actually hearing the sound of a running spring so that's spring water coming out of the spring here at Spring Park that's what you're hearing and this fool right over here is fed by that spring so it stays pretty much the same temperature year round should be around 72 degrees year round it's wonderful here's one of the cons living in Florida which I have for a lot of years in my life in in Green Coast Springs too do we have bugs do we have insects yeah yes we do as far as termites go you want to get any home that you buy inspected for a wdo that's a wood destroying organisms and inspection and that covers termites fungus anything that can eat wood carpenter ants ants that covers you on all that stuff like termites as far as fire ants go you want to teach your kids not to kick amp beds let them know what an ant bed looks like don't walk in the Hamptons are there fire ants here yes they are can you treat the fire ants four fire ants yes you can but there's also wasps Hornets bees they're in tall I mean when during pollination using all this flowering yeah there's bees everywhere do they attack you or any of that kind of stuff no I've never been attacked by a bee or a wasp or a Hornet or any of that stuff have I ever accidentally put my hand on one or near one and gotten stung accidentally yes luckily I'm not allergic to that those types of things but if you are you need to be aware of it in case you might ever potentially get I recommend that you have at least quarterly pest control on your home if you can most and not even internal Pest Control inside the home if you can control the exterior of the home you're not going to have a problem with cockroaches and Vermin and that kind of stuff coming in your house as long as you treat the outside and you don't have any holes and things where things can enter your house you want to have screens over your soffits all that kind of stuff garage door seals properly all those kind of things you're not going to have any problems with the bugs and that kind of stuff coming into your house here's another Pro I feel like people here are friendly and they're they talk to you they nod their heads they're they're friendly it's a small town we're here in the South and people here are not standoffish or overly protective we're a military area there's a lot of people that come into this area from out out of outside of Jacksonville and out of Clay County and out of Green Cove Springs a lot of people have settled here over time and that's just I'll have to say as a whole everybody that I've met in this area and in the neighborhoods and the coffee shops and the restaurants and the stores they all seem to be very friendly and the folks that I've talked to in the communities they love living here here's one of the cons this is a rural area it is a small town is it going to change over time undoubtedly it will but I mean at this very moment you have like a huge diversity of shopping and stores no I mean you got Dollar Generals you've got coffee shops you got a Mexican restaurant you have a Winn-Dixie you have an Ace Hardware that kind of thing if you want a lot more shopping than that you're going to want to go across 16 across the bridge over to St John's and go to German Pavilion shopping center over there that's going to be about 20 minutes by car or if you want to go just and that's in St John's County if you want to go off of 17 and just go north and right here in Clay County you just run up to Fleming Island Fleming Island is a very nice thriving Community I miss the cost of living going to be higher than Green Cove Springs it is but again there's tons of shopping up there you got Home Depot multiple grocery stores all types of restaurants clothing stores anything that you want up there you have it in Fleming Island 15 minutes away and as this town as Green Cove Springs does develop over time I know there's going to be more more businesses coming here and quiet subtract over here you'll find out in a moment so this is the biggest Pro in my mind the Green Cove Springs I feel like there's a very high potential here for earning Equity if you buy and hold a property here whether it be a commercial or residential if you buy now and hold not necessarily do a flip or Buy and Hold I feel like you're going to come out ahead in just a few years there is a high-speed toll road it's called sr23 and it's going to be multiple lanes and they've already started building it and it starts over off of I-10 West and it comes around the interior of Jacksonville and it's going to be the electronic tolls it'll either use SunPass or pay by tag and it's going to come around and it's going to come around the outside of Green Cove Springs and it's going to go across the St John's river so the two-lane Bridge which is very low in the water and again only two lanes is a very rare in Florida they both 16 bridge is going to be replaced they're going to have a 65 foot high span four-lane bridge going across the river and that's I believe going to be completed in like 2027 so it's a few years off but once that connects over with St John's County this area is just going to be wide open because people are going to be able to go from I-95 over to this area and connect all the way over to I-10 so I-95 is more south and I-10 is east west both both interstates being connected with a high-speed Tollway in between through the Interiors I really think Green Cove Springs is going to take off I really do so hope you got a lot out of that Green Cove Springs pros and cons list that I went through with you hopefully the sound of the running water wasn't too loud it's I love the sound of running water hopefully you do too but if you have any questions about any of the points that I covered feel free to reach out to me directly my contact information is in the description below feel free if you live in this area leave some comments or remarks those are always welcome and remember whether you're moving in nine days or 90 days give us a call shoot us a text send us an email we're happy to help you make a smooth move to Jacksonville Florida or live today Green Cove Springs and until next time hope to show you around town