Pros & Cons: Could Neptune Beach Florida Be Your New Home?

So you're thinking about moving to Neptune Beach Florida well today we're going to cover the pros and the cons of living in Neptune Beach Florida as well as the good and the bad you're going to want to stick around to the end cuz we're getting after it right now so we're going to get started with Pro number one which is going to be access to the beach Neptune Beach it's inherent in its name it's access to the beach what else do you want I mean you're on the east coast of Florida and Northeast Florida and you have access to the surf and the sand 24/7 you also have access to the inter Coastal Waterway just to the West so you're basically on an island here and you have access to the beach I mean when I wanted to move to Florida that's all I was all about was the beach I don't currently live at the beach now I wish I did I used to a while back but I'd love to move back and Neptune Beach is definitely one of the top destinations in my book if you want to live in Northeast Florida the next Pro in my opinion is that the beaches Neptune Beach of course included is a tightnit community it's not a highly populated area here it's not a ton of houses and places to live out here I mean people that choose to live here make the price pay the price rather and make the price when they sell their home of course but they choose to live here and people make you can make friends here easily people look out for one another and it's just a Beach's lifestyle and a Beach's way of life and it's a great place to live so the next Pro living in Neptune Beach I would say is access to a ton of outdoor activity that of course you can do pretty much nearly year round because of the ideal weather we that we have here in Northeast Florida so you got surfing fishing walking on the beach running on the beach there's golfing nearby you can do tennis basketball pickle ball any of that stuff that you want to do that you can do other places where you're limited by the winter you're not limited here whatsoever Neptune Beach fantastic place for outdoor activities next Pro is going to be proximity to a major city which is Jacksonville Florida Neptune Beach is technically a suburb of Jacksonville Florida so therefore you have access to all the employment opportunities you have military bases in Jacksonville you have an international airport in Jacksonville the highway system Railway system you're not too far off from St Augustine as well just to the South just it's a great place because you have cultural access access to the Arts access to major sports and sporting events concerts tours it's a great place to live because it's of course close to Jacksonville Neptune Beach is a beautiful area you have highly rated public schools here located here at the beaches you have very nice parks and infrastructure for recreation of course on my first video that I put out the Vlog video of course you could see jarbo Park and there's even a public library access to the Jacksonville Public Library its own branch location here in Neptune Beach as well if this is your first time on this channel and you want to know everything about eating sleeping working playing in the Jacksonville Florida area and the surrounding suburbs please like subscribe and tap the bell for notifications so you can be the first to learn about the current real estate market here in Jacksonville Florida my name is Jay W I'm a local real estate agent and I get calls texts and emails all the time from people just like you they're looking for help relocating to this area and I absolutely love it so whether you're moving in a shorter period of time or a longer period of time or even if you have a home to sell reach out to me I'm always happy to help you make a smooth move to Jacksonville now we're going to go over some of the cons the first one's going to be the obvious you're on the coast you have somewhat of a risk factor due to tropical storms and hurricane events which could happen you could have access to higher winds and if you're on the ocean front or if you're on the inter Coastal you could have Rising tides and possible problems with some flooding as well so it's definitely something to consider and of course you want to ensure yourself accordingly for that risk so next con is going to be cost of living the cost of housing right now I checked the MLS multiple listing system for a Northeast Florida Association Realtors the lowest pric home right now on the market available in the inventory is $530,000 and of course the most expensive is $2,400,000 that's 16 total properties so that's what the price is going to be to get in here and buy right now at the time of this filming you also have to consider that you're going to have higher cost for insurance and higher cost for utilities as well so that is something to consider cost of living here in Neptune Beach another con that you're going to have to consider is some traffic congestion as Jacksonville has grown there's more people of course that live in the Jacksonville area and with that there's more people that want to go to the beaches and also live at the beaches so you you have traffic coming onto the beaches you have traffic coming off of the beaches of course some of that's going to be seasonal as well so you have going to have some tourist factors in there as well but A1A it loads up pretty heavy with traffic there's no doubt about it so does this road Penman Road which is like the mid Beach's north south thoroughfare other than A1A it loads up pretty heavy with traffic are they working on ways to try to remedy some of that traffic yes they are but they definitely have some challenges ahead of them because there's not a ton of RightWay access to widen those roads so traffic is definitely something you have to consider so here's another con which is going to be if you want to have a short-term rental you are not going to be able to do one unless it's greater than 28 days so if you have the idea that you're going to be able to buy a place here and do a Airbnb daily weekly you're not going to be able to do that they just don't allow it and yeah 28 days got to be at least 28 days if you're going to do a rental here now I'm going to lay the biggest Pro of all on you there are no highrises on Neptune Beach none not a single one one to the north that one highrise there that's Atlantic Beach to the South that highrise there that's the start of Jacksonville Beach so this whole area of ocean front all single family homes all on the beach with no highrises blocking out anybody's view so pretty cool I hope you got a lot out of today's pros and cons of Neptune Beach if you haven't already done so please consider joining the living in Jacksonville Florida tribe and hit that subscribe button if you haven't subscri or if you've already subscribed or you're not ready to subscribe please consider hitting that like button giving us a thumbs up you can always reach out to me my contact information is in 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