Pros & Cons of Living in Nocatee St. Johns County Florida | Moving to St. Johns County Florida |

So you're thinking about moving to Jacksonville Florida but you're really interested in Nocatee Florida and you're kind of interested in what's the pros and cons of that area well you're in luck because today we're going to cover those we're going to go through the yin and yang the good and bad the pros and cons of Nocatee and you're going to want to stick around to the end because 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 the Jacksonville Florida area or places like the area we're covering today Nocatee subscribe below 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 text 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 send us an email we're happy to help you make a smooth move to Jacksonville or like I said Nocatee So today we're going to cover the pros and cons in Nocatee Florida Fantastic planned Community it's not just the community it's a lifestyle and we're going to get started right now so we're going to talk about the pros and cons of living in the Nocatee Community here in Ponte Vedra I'm right in front of the the Splash Water Park here it's closed for the winter like I said before it's open on the weekends in my other video my map video I wanted to let that there are other Parks which are nearby which is the spray park there's a swim club just across the street with a heated pool but anyway let's get started with the pros and cons so number one it's very children and grandchildren and youth friendly there's tons of activities in here for children to do like I said there's all the parks plus tennis courts pickleball courts there's soccer there's dog parks there's walking trails running trails if you let your kids drive golf carts of course that's up to you parents but there's traffic signals for the golf it's just totally set up there's activities that happen not if not daily weekly it's on the Nocatee there's a Nocatee cable channel there's a Nocatee a radio station and there's a Nocatee app so between all of that you can definitely get connected with tons of the activities for your kids plus everything that's going on during the holidays they actually decorate the splash park for Christmas time with amazing lights you should check it out at night time of course during Christmas is totally amazing they have Halloween events it's just they even have a dog park parade for dogs it's it's fantastic setup for kids it's awesome okay here's Pro number two which is proximity to water it's not literally on the water although you can buy properties that are on the water in here off the intercoastal most of the areas in here are not going to be right on the water itself but nearby water so if you like water activities you're eight miles from michler Landing which is Ponte Vedra Beach very close by not even a not even a 15-minute car ride to the beach the Intracoastal Waterway is 10 minutes away there's boat ramps kayak kayak launch ramps and then if you want to go to the West you've got the St John's river which is about 15 minutes to the west from here and of course you got fresh water over there plenty of fishing boat ramps again so if you want to go water skiing you can definitely do that but if you like water plus I didn't already mentioned the pools and the splash parks and spray parks it's all about water you need to be worried about flooding in here there are some properties which will have a rating but you can definitely talk to the builders about that and you can definitely get insurance to cover them that's not a problem tons of people are buying in here and to my knowledge nobody has had any issues whatsoever with flooding and Nocatee it's it's really set up incredibly well and engineered well to handle a storm water runoff it's amazing look okay here's another Pro which is going to be available housing options there are Apartments of course in here that you can rent if you want to rent but they're single family homes there's Town Homes Carriage homes does share a common wall between them of course you can build estate sized homes in here if you want to you can also live in 55 plus sorry 55 plus communities are in here as well as people advance and age they also have Assisted Living nearby A Memory Care all of that so there's tons of housing options available for all the ranges and scopes of choices here in Nocatee okay here's another Pro people in here are friendly and it's easy to make friends lots of people have relocated to this area and of course the way you get friends is to make friends and be friendly people like I say have a sense of community and safety and camaraderie in here they enjoy doing activities together and there's all types of sports that you can do together all types of recreation and yeah it's a great friendly Community easy to meet folks lots of folks relocating here it's great here's another Pro of course which is a lot of restaurants nearby and there is shopping nearby there's a Smoke restaurant First Watch The Loop M Shack trailer park there's Mexican restaurants there's you really don't have to leave this area if you want options different options as far as dining if you do elect to go nearby all you got to do is drop across the Intercoastal Waterway over into Ponte Vedra Beach tons of options over there as well and as far as the shopping goes you will have to do a little bit of driving to get to a hardware store like Ace Hardware that'll be over on US-1 Home Depot there's a choice of those in Jacksonville Beach to the north and also at Durbin Pavilion over in St John's so those are about the only things you're going to end up driving to or be like hardware stores that type of thing if you want a larger clothing store you'll want to go to the town center in Jacksonville or go to the beaches Jacksonville Beach that type of thing but restaurants shopping dining they have it all here in Nocatee very convenient okay I've said it before I'll say it again another Pro in Nocatee is it's a golf course golf cart Community it's definitely set up for golf carts carts are King in here they have a wooden Trail pass designed for carts just like a golf course except being on a golf course you can go throughout Nocatee they literally have traffic signals for golf carts there's parking set aside for golf carts the green white green wise Publix if you have an electric vehicle other than a golf cart larger than a golf cart or a a Tesla electric any of that kind of stuff you can charge those up over at the GreenWise Publix I mean this place is set up for golf carts electric it's the way to go in here definitely want to get you one if you're moving to Nocatee okay I wanted to add one more thing about the beaches accesses if you wanted to scale up or upgrade and get a beach club membership private beach club membership those are available at a discount to Nocatee residents you can join the serenada beach club or the Ponte Vedra Lodge and Club definitely you want to look those up online of course to find out more about those but those are some amazing private beach clubs with dining all types of options cocktails events parking of course their own private chairs umbrellas all that stuff you understand right it's a great way to go right if you can do it but yeah that is available all right and last but not least on this Pro is going to be the a-rated schools there's three amazing k through eight public St Johns County schools in this community there's also access to two separate high schools you don't have to worry about the quality of the schools because you can go online you can go to greatschools.org niche.com or you can go to the St Johns County School Board look up the schools and their ratings people move here for the schools I understand why and if you live in Nocatee you definitely have some fantastic choices of public schools for your children okay so we're gonna move on to the cons there aren't that many of those but I did want to cover some of those I did interview some customers that have purchased a Nocatee and lived here for a while so some of these may not seem ones that you might think of maybe so maybe not but here's number one although infrequent occasionally HOAs will change their rules and one of my customers he's a grandfather with grandkids he enjoyed fishing in a pond here in Nocatee and it was within the community and the HOA band fishing they put up signs and restricted it so eliminated it that's a con to him I'm just saying that HOAs you under need to understand when you move into a community you're subject to the rules of the HOA they have HOA boards if you want to be on one I'm sure you can try to get on one and affect the rules and whatnot but yeah when you move into a community you need to be aware of the rules HOA and occasionally those can change it does happen okay here's another one that my customer shared with me and he lives in a gated community but he said that he feels like some residents in Nocatee might have an error of exclusivity about them I'm not sure exactly what that means but I guess what I guess that's not the norm though he told me most people in here are very friendly they treat everybody with respect and the help that works in here treat them with respect and that's the thing everybody's got to be nice to everybody no matter or what that's just the way it goes okay here's another con there's only a finite amount of retail space that is in here and that will ever be approved for retail over 60 percent of Nocatee is set aside for a conservation and preservation and they intend to keep it that way they're going to control how much of this area gets developed for commercial space and retail space so is if a business leaves I'm sure there's another one that will move in to take its place of course some of the medical buildings have a retail space on the bottom floor so there's for instance there's a kookaburra coffee shop in the bottom of the Flagler Health System building imagine that fantastic coffee shop at a health place that's great right but like I said before if you want a Home Depot or a Ace Hardware that type of thing you will need to get in your car and go for a little drive 10 minutes 15 minutes top okay this is one another con it's probably the last one which is going to they don't really have in this Nocatee area public parks that have public tennis courts public pickleball courts public basketball courts skateboard parks that type of thing you meet I call it Municipal facilities yes there are facilities for the people of Nocatee the residents of Nocatee and Nocatee residents pay for those facilities and I understand why it's restricted to them because it's a deed restricted community I get it but if somebody lives in Ponte not necessarily Nocatee because Nocatee is a part of Ponte Vedra and you're wanting those things you would need to talk to I guess you would need to try to put something together to try to bring those into the community because right now they just don't have them so I hope you found this pros and cons video of Nocatee to be useful and insightful and helpful to you if you have any questions you can always reach out to me directly my contact information is in the description below but we can always just schedule a zoom call as well if you have any comments feel free to leave those below and feel free to like this video and if you would like to subscribe and learn more about the current market conditions and housing as I release new videos and you can get notified hit the subscription button and remember whether you're moving in nine days or 90 days give us a call shoot us a text send us an 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