Should I Live on a Golf Course?
Welcome to paradise.
As a kid, I only went to the local country club in the dead of winter, to sled. At the time, I wondered what it looked like in the summer and just couldn't picture it. I went once to play in Truro, Massachusetts and was way more interested in the cliffs by the ocean and thought walking around the shrub strewn fairways was terribly boring. I never could imagine living on a golf course and then something happened....
Our son was born.
Sure, having a nice small Florida sized yard was fine with no kids but the idea that our very active toddler would be happy with a 1,500sf patch of grass didn't make sense. Couple that with a desire to be near the ocean and suddenly the cost for a large house with a big yard soon became unaffordable. Very unaffordable.
Then we considered a golf community. Close to the beach and now we have a 550 Acre backyard that someone else mows for us! We spend time at the restaurant, playing soccer in the out of bounds areas and have built two "secret" clubhouses in wooded locations. So, I'm not sure that any of us will ever play a round here but we can show people where Rocky learned to ride his two wheeler (#10 on the Stadium Course) and where we saw the biggest coyote in the world (#1 Players Course). It's a surprising fun lifestyle for non golfers. It might be worth checking out as you consider various lifestyles in the Sunshine State.
As a kid, I only went to the local country club in the dead of winter, to sled. At the time, I wondered what it looked like in the summer and just couldn't picture it. I went once to play in Truro, Massachusetts and was way more interested in the cliffs by the ocean and thought walking around the shrub strewn fairways was terribly boring. I never could imagine living on a golf course and then something happened....
Our son was born.
Sure, having a nice small Florida sized yard was fine with no kids but the idea that our very active toddler would be happy with a 1,500sf patch of grass didn't make sense. Couple that with a desire to be near the ocean and suddenly the cost for a large house with a big yard soon became unaffordable. Very unaffordable.
Then we considered a golf community. Close to the beach and now we have a 550 Acre backyard that someone else mows for us! We spend time at the restaurant, playing soccer in the out of bounds areas and have built two "secret" clubhouses in wooded locations. So, I'm not sure that any of us will ever play a round here but we can show people where Rocky learned to ride his two wheeler (#10 on the Stadium Course) and where we saw the biggest coyote in the world (#1 Players Course). It's a surprising fun lifestyle for non golfers. It might be worth checking out as you consider various lifestyles in the Sunshine State.
Path to secret clubhouse #2....
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