The Florida Living Manual: Choosing Your Place

The unofficial guide to moving to Florida: every region compared, 780 towns, and your first 30 days.

What's inside:

• Profiles of all eleven Florida regions: weather, storms and flood risk, people, costs and insurance, hospitals, getting around, jobs, culture and history.
• 780 town cards: home value, rent, median age, income, the nearest 24-hour ER and the nearest airline airport, from U.S. Census and federal data.
• Plan a scouting trip: answer 15 questions, see which regions fit you, then get a 3, 5 or 7-day trip with what to check in every town, questions for the insurance agent, and scorecards to fill in on your phone.
• Compare any three regions side by side.
• Every hurricane that passed within 50 miles of Florida since 1851, on a map, from NOAA records.
• Settle in: the First 30 Days tracker, a monthly-cost calculator, and scorecards for owners, renters and mobile homes.
• The good stuff: history, famous names, must-sees and the stories only Florida produces.

Every fact is footnoted to its source. Works on any phone or computer. Put it on your phone's home screen and it works with no internet. The Start Here sheet in your download shows how.

Written by Charles Squires, who has lived in Florida for 40 years in eight places from Coral Gables to Fort Walton Beach. Researched with AI help; every fact checked at its source. Not political, not a realtor's pitch. 30-day money-back guarantee.

Independent publication by CHEWZI.NET LLC. Not legal, tax, insurance or real estate advice.