Hello all,
A quick question for the south floridians among you.
There's a chance my wife and I I might be moving to south Florida (it's not done but there's a chance it happens) and have to start thinking about where to look for an apartment.
I am 100% flexible in terms of work location as long as I am reasonably close to a major airport (let's say no more than 45 minutes to an hour), but my wife will have to work in an office, so location is not totally settled at the moment.
Because of her line of work she will most probably be within the downtown or immediate metro area, so places like west palm beach have to be ruled out.
Because of the uncertainty related to my wife I am just looking for options, and would pick the one closest to her work location once she's found it.
My requirements:
1- married couple, mid 30s, no kids yet but in the works. At this point we're looking for a 1 bedroom, no need for more.
2- nice beach within short biking distance.
3- as bikeable / walkable area as possible.
4- some sort of life other than the mall. Not sure how to explain this but we would like a place with a sort of "town center", not just a town developed around a 4 lane highway with walmart and CVS stores left and right (this is kind of a corollary of point 2 and 3). Art and music a definite plus.
We would be ready to pay more in exchange for a place that better matches the points above, we have lived our last 5 years in NYC and 7 years split between Paris and Nice in France prior to that so we are used to active cities.
The main reason we are considering the move is to be closer to nature and the outdoors (we are both divers), but keeping an eye on our careers.
I have worked in large and midsize FMCG companies (sales) and my wife is in the luxury goods business (product development), if it were only about location we would probably move to Salt Lake City, but we are still a good 7-10 years away from being completely FI and thus want to stay in an area where we can easily continue to progress work wise (we both love what we do thankfully).
Thanks a ton in advance for all your help!