I can help as I basically “live” in Jacksonville one week a month for work. Feel free to respond here or PM me. For property tax purposes you DEFINITELY want to be in St Johns County. Not that Duval is bad by any means... it’s just that St. John’s is so cheap. Schools in St. John’s are generally better.

Do you mind me asking where you’ll be working? My assumption would be somewhere near Southside/Deerwood Park but some info on that would help me give you info on a commute.

FBI Jacksonville field office. 295 & 202 across the highway from St Johns Town Center mall.

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Moving to Florida in June. Who did you piss off? :)

Good luck with your move. I noticed you're in Texas now, so it probably won't be too much of a difference in weather.

Several of the C suite executives at my old company lived in Ponte Vedra. They seemed to like it, and (referring to your 4 year old post) seemed to have similar wants and needs in terms of giant McMansions and decent schools.

Well, just know there's going to be traffic but it's not bad at all if you time it right. Any reason you're not looking in Nocatee? What are you looking for in a community?

Nocatee is in the mix. Kind of the same general vicinity, no?

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is jupiter part of your territory? you going to be doing "surveillance"?

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Dan Empfield
aka Slowman

Good luck on move, I liked Nocatee as often raced out of Mickler's Landing and rode thru community. Unfortunately, many new homes had CDD (community development districts) & Hoa fees. Not sure on schools etc.

Yes but Nocatee is about five minutes or so closer to work for you, the community has better amenities (community fitness center, bike paths, etc) IMO, you can get out to Ponte Vedra Beach pretty quickly... honestly it would be my pick if you're looking in that area. Beachwalk might be worth looking at too if you're a big swimmer.

Okay... Beachwalk is a cool ass looking neighborhood.

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I live in St Johns (neighborhood beside Nocatee) and work in Jacksonville (drive by your soon-to-be building on my way home every day) so am in a similar situation that you'll be. One thing I would look for (especially in Palencia, if I recall) is whether or not you are in a flood zone. Feel free to PM me with any questions or I can answer them on here.

Here's a good tool for seeing if a neighborhood is in a flood zone:

http://www.sjcfl.us/GIS/iMap.aspx

Click "accept".
Zoom in a bit on the area you're interested in.
Click "Flood Zone Layers" on the toolbar on the right hand side.

You work for the Fbi?

Yep

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