Pros & Cons of Living in Ponte Vedra Beach FL | Moving to Ponte Vedra Beach Florida

So you're thinking about moving to Jacksonville Florida well today we're going to talk about the pros and cons the yin and yang the good and bad of living in Ponte Vedra Beach Florida 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 Jacksonville Florida 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 we get calls texts emails every day from people just like you they're looking to move to this area and want help 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 or have it help you make a smooth move to Jacksonville so like I said we're going to be talking about the pros and cons of Ponte Vedra Beach just so you get an idea where I'm talking to you from right now I'm actually on the deck of a customer's house overlooking the the marsh saltwater Marsh behind me here in Neptune Beach and Neptune Beach is an area that I will be covering soon in one of my Vlogs and a map video and a pros and cons but it's one of the Hidden gems of the beaches Jacksonville beaches and it's north of Ponte Vedra Beach but we are going to talk about Ponte Vedra Beach pros and cons so let's get rolling so I'm going to start off with one of the first cons which is going to be Florida is surrounded by water on three sides and it's Ponte Vedra Beach it is a beach it is off the ocean we do have tropical events that happen periodically during the year the hurricane months are June through December and in this modern day and age we can track storms for weeks in advance but nevertheless occasionally you might need to I know if you live really close on the coast and they advise that it's time to evacuate you have to follow so the guidance of the authorities and quite possibly important thing and Evacuate the other thing you might want to also take into consideration is when you buy a home in this area Ponte Vedra Beach area or really anywhere in Florida for that matter if you look at Florida from the air when you're on an airplane flying in it's amazing to see just how much water there is in Florida there's a lot huge amount but anyway there's such a thing as flood zones so land is rated it's assessed based on its chance of flooding its risk occasionally when we get really high tides from the storms that are offshore that could push the water up pretty close to some of these properties and you definitely want to take that into consideration that's what I'm getting at you got to look at the big picture when it comes to the possibility of flooding when you buy a property here or really anywhere in Florida you'd have to take that into consideration okay here's another con which is there is some traffic on State Road A1A which runs north and south it's going to run from around 7 00 a.m until around 9 30 and from around 4 30 probably until around seven o'clock it can be stop and go at some points on A1A but it usually always keeps moving in the unlikely event that there is a accident that might happen on a bridge we have bridges that come by Nocatee which comes across the intercoastal to Ponte Vedra we also have bridges that come across Jacksonville into the beaches and occasionally accidents happen and you got to go across a bridge to get to the beach it's going to happen at some point so you could get slowed down a little bit occasionally from those accidents if they happen on a bridge okay this is a con that one of my customers longtime customers brought up he relocated here from Michigan but he's lived here a really long time and he even lived in Tampa for a period of time what he was saying is there's not really a large downtown area to go to like a big city if you want to go to one from Ponte Vedra Beach for instance Jacksonville It's a Wonderful I love Jacksonville I love the Jaguars I love going to events downtown but it's still not at the point that it's going to be probably in five or ten years it's going to be a lot better probably than it is right at this very moment but I read every week in the business journals about the planning that's being done downtown on the river near the stadium it's going to change in time but it's just been us a slow approach to Downtown Jacksonville developing at the beaches you have a Jacksonville Beach which is going to be larger than Ponte Vedra Beach so you'll have some more shopping there there's definitely plenty of grocery stores nearby even in Ponte Vedra Beach nearby you have of course Home Depot a low not Lowe's Lowe's is across the intercoastal but there's plenty of shopping that you can go to it's just not you're not going to find like a large shopping mall with a Nordstrom or those type of stores you're gonna have to go into Jacksonville for those I go to the town center that type of thing and if you want to go to like a really big city to like enjoy downtown areas you're probably going to need to go to Orlando which is the closest or maybe run up to Savannah something like that but again Jacksonville does have stuff that goes on they have events but as far as like a really developed booming downtown area with Scott within the skyline it's it's still got some progress to be made there okay one of the cons also is going to be higher cost of living with higher property values comes higher assessed taxes it it's that's just part of the deal when you live in a high higher value area the taxes are going to be higher which goes along with that the risk of flooding you're going to want to pick up flood insurance there's a cost associated with that electricity you'll pay a little bit more for that that at the beaches gas will pay a little bit more for that at the beaches food you'll pay a little bit more for that of the beaches and it all adds up but it's not cost prohibitive it's totally worth it for the lifestyle and I mentioned before I lived in Jacksonville Beach for over 15 years and I totally love it and I would love to come back to the beaches as soon as I can I love the beaches it's a great place to live okay so let's start talking about the pros which there are a lot of those let's talk about the weather I love winter in Florida and I love winter in Jacksonville and I love winter at the beaches areas too which is where I'm shooting this from right now and we're right off this is a marsh area saltwater Marsh area you go on beyond that you have the Intracoastal Waterway there's large mature trees here beautiful Oaks lots of wildlife you might hear an owl hooting while I'm shooting this it's for real it's not a sound effect and there's egrets back there that are feeding right now but it's it's 75 degrees and we're in January there's a beautiful Breeze blowing and it's not humid there's no bugs now and that's for many many months you get like six months of this really well I'd say set eight months of this really sweet weather okay then it starts warming up then you will have some humidity and it does get pretty warm I mean you will want to run inside and enjoy the air conditioning a lot during the daylight hours unless you're at the beaches or on a golf course or off fishing or playing tennis doing any number of things is it worth it overall to live in Florida to have this weather absolutely I've never met somebody that told me they moved here and they missed shoveling snow or they missed driving on Ice okay and it gets hot even up north in the Summers I know it does so I would say overall this is a great place to live for weather absolutely okay let's talk about quality of life it's a great lifestyle it's a beaches lifestyle it's really laid back there's no Billboards you have underground utilities people are friendly you can go to the beach every morning and go for a walk before work you can see the sunrise in the evenings you can have a beautiful stroll as well if you want to see the sun set you would go check it out over the Intracoastal Waterway and it's just the lifestyle at the beaches that's what people crave and it's just a great place to live okay this is another Pro let's talk about variety of housing you have Oceanfront properties Intracoastal front properties there are Apartments there are rentals there are duplexes there are 55 plus age restricted communities there's gated communities there's country clubs there's Beach Clubs all of the those options for you to live is the pricing a little bit higher at the beaches than over in Jacksonville yes it is it is going to be higher at the beaches than over in Jacksonville but definitely there's a lot of housing options and take that into consideration if you want to live in Ponte Vedra Beach okay let's talk about the schools most all of the schools are going to be a-rated schools that's why people like to live it is going to be St John's County and Ponte Vedra Beach it will be St John's County not Duval County which is Jacksonville but it will be St John's County you're going to have St John's County aerated schools high school kids go to it's actually just across the inner Coastal intra Coastal Waterway from the beaches it's closer to Nocatee in Ponte Vedra and it's called Ponte Vedra High School imagine that but fantastic High School fantastic elementary schools can't go wrong with the schools okay here's another Pro to some people that may not be a pro but there are a lot of HOA communities deed restricted communities the advantage to living in those communities of course is that it protects the residents against the worst resident that might live in there everybody has to live to the standards and rules of the hole way there's a homeowners association fee associated with that it's always disclosed before you move into the community as a real estate agent I disclose that to all of my clients I have to and that's do you just go in prepared if you do have an HOA you need to know what the rules are and live within those but most people think it's a good thing again because it keeps the standards up that everybody meets the same standards that lives in there keeps the property values up and you're not going to have somebody Park an Airstream trailer in the front yard necessarily or trades Vehicles those kinds of things and I definitely have the utmost respect for people that have RVs and the people that work in the trades I come from a long line of Tradesmen in my family as well but rules of rules and we all got to live by those rules if you do have an RV a boat something like that there are facilities of that you can rent space and store your RV or boat there and then if you're a military person there are options for you I believe up at the bases as well to store some of that stuff too so that's cool so that's going to wrap up the pros and cons of Ponte Vedra Beach I hope you got a lot out of that if you have any comments feel free to leave a comment below there's always welcome if you want to reach out to me my contact information is in the description below you can call me you can text me you can schedule a zoom there's a zoom link there 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 or like today Ponte Vedra