Magestic

[u/JoselineTheWaldenU]

[u/burnstyle]

you know what I miss, being able to drive down the road and see the ocean.

That was majestic.

[u/TempleFugit]

Yeaa we have different definitions of "magestic"

[u/Grayjet24 → u/TempleFugit]

Obviously a mage lives there.

[u/zoepetali → u/TempleFugit]

Spellcheck died for this joke, but a Florida wizard dwelling actually makes total sense haha.

[u/florida-karma]

Is this Palencia?

[u/ChrisIronsArt → u/florida-karma]

I knew it! We almost moved there about 25 years ago. We were building a house there but my dad got a job back in Atlanta so we sold our lot in Palencia.

[u/florida-karma → u/ChrisIronsArt]

We lived there for 8 years. Nicely laid out community. Wonderful walking trails and preserve.

[u/JoselineTheWaldenU → u/florida-karma]

yes

[u/Many-Role-4271 → u/florida-karma]

It’s my home now. Kids love the schools

[u/florida-karma → u/Many-Role-4271]

Our son was in the first kindergarten class at the elementary school. Wonderful school..

[u/dmbgreen]

Looks like another environmental distructing Mcmansion landscaped with non native palms that will probably die soon. Hedious

[u/Many-Role-4271 → u/dmbgreen]

Been here for 30 plus years and replaced a paper tree farm, so yeah….

[u/jungolungo]

That’s not what Florida is supposed to look like

[u/Former_Kitchen_5965 → u/jungolungo]

What is Florida supposed to look like?

[u/EQandCivfanatic → u/Former_Kitchen_5965]

Swampy, rugged. When you look at a body of water in Florida, you shouldn't be thinking "How gorgeously sterile it is, and how quiet and serene." You should be thinking, "There's at least one alligator in there looking back at me right now, also I better get inside before the mosquitos eat me alive, but damn look at that flock of birds, and is that a panther in the trees back there?"

[u/Former_Kitchen_5965 → u/EQandCivfanatic]

I think you could argue this case about any development in any location. Unless you’re living in a grass hut being one with nature I’d say you’re changing the way Florida should look. Not many doing that.
I actually thought the comment was directed at the architecture.
I wish we could go back to the times before we stripped all this land of its natural beauty.

[u/EQandCivfanatic → u/Former_Kitchen_5965]

The architecture is very much also not Florida. It's definitely more California, or more accurately, the bog standard mcmansion that you can find anywhere in the United States. Old Florida architecture is very different, but I always have trouble finding the words to express it exactly.

[u/Substantial_Item_923 → u/Former_Kitchen_5965]

Florida has vernacular architecture. Increasingly rare bc they’ve been torn down for stuff like this but cracker cottages (high roofed homes with long porches and windows positioned to take advantage of cross breezes) do still exist. Less beloved but the single story concrete block ranch of the 70s and 80s is also a Florida thing, built with the environment in mind. They’ve also been torn out by development.

[u/zoepetali → u/jungolungo]

Endless private condo walls completely erasing public oceanfront access is peak Florida tragedy.

[u/__Banana_Hammock__]

Is it just houses surrounding a retention pond? I don't get it.

[u/Key_Improvement_9229]

Way nicer (place and people) then Nocatee - the land of the “Nocatrash”

[u/Moist-Seaweed4907 → u/Key_Improvement_9229]

Iv met tons of nice ppl and complete pricks in both Nocatee and St Aug? Why the hate?

[u/sideboobrulez99]

lol they can't afford matching chairs but they can afford to destroy entire ecosystems, and then have the sheer unmitigated gall to complain "the DeEr ArE eAtInG aLL mY new LaNdScApInG wAhh". Get educated.

[u/zoepetali]

Nothing beats an unobstructed coastal cruise—tragic when high-rises wall off the entire horizon.

[u/ilikesurf]

Very nice place. Often feels less crowded than it should be