167 towns · Scored honestly · A local when you're ready
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We score all 167 beach towns on how you want to live, and show the tradeoffs too: insurance, storms, season crowds and airport distance.
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Who we are
Mark and Betsy Scott
Our family had two weeks to pick our Florida town.
So we built the guide we wished we'd had. Twenty years later, this is what we'd tell a friend.
Our mission is simple: help you pick the right Florida town honestly, before you ever talk to an agent.
- 2005Sold the business and had two weeks to choose a Florida town
- NowLiving on a coastal dune lake on 30A
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