Moving to Florida-Florida Real Estate Network-Living plus Relocating

Daytona Beach Outdoors and Recreational Opportunities
If you like the outdoors, Daytona is the place.
The World’s Most Famous Beach (a breathtaking 500 feet wide at low tide) has an ocean park atmosphere second to none, and it’s open year-round. In addition to the beach at Daytona, there are miles of oceanfront awaiting you in Volusia county.
Recreational opportunities in the outdoors are the most important assets of this area..
The fishing and boating here is incredible-both in the Ocean and the Indian river.
There is always something to catch year round and our weather lets you do it. If you like the water, this is the place
Recreational Opportunities:

• 20 Marinas
• 50 Parks,
• 48 public Golf Courses
• 17 private golf courses
• 42 Campgrounds and recreational vehicle parks
• 9 public Tennis Courts
• 25 charter boats
  To see a complete list of parks and recreational opportunities see

• the sites below
• http://www.floridastateparks.org/FndaParkRegion.cfm?Dist=Southeast
  http://volusia.org/parks/links.htm

Things to do outdoors:

• Fishing-saltwater, freshwater-Ocean, Bay and freshwater
• Boating-Ocean, Bay or the Indian river
• Camping
• Diving
• Hiking
• Tennis
• Golf
• Tennis
• Bike riding
• Birding
• Photography and Wildlife watching
• Kayaking—canoes-there are good rental locations and lots of places to launch.

Other places to visit.

• Central Florida Zoological Park (37 miles) Sanford
• Cypress Gardens (101 miles) Winter Haven
• Florida’s Busch Gardens (139 miles) Tampa
• Florida’s Silver Springs (63 miles) Silver Springs
• Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex (56 miles) Kennedy Space Center
• Orlando Science Center (50 miles) Orlando
• Sea World of Florida (65 miles) Orlando
• St. Augustine Historic District (53 miles) St. Augustine
• Walt Disney World (67 miles) Lake Buena Vista
• Wet-N-Wild (63 miles) Orlando
• Universal Studios (63 miles) Orlando

Pro Sports

• Daytona International speedway

• Jacksonville NFL Jaguars –1-2 hrs away—89 miles
• http://www.jaguars.com/

• MLB-Florida Marlins A 4-5 hour drive to Miami
• 2269 Dan Marino Blvd, Pro Player Stadium, Miami Gardens, FL 33056 · 305-626-7400

• Miami Dolphins A 4-5 hour drive to Miami
• 2269 Dan Marino Blvd, Pro Player Stadium, Miami Gardens, FL 33056 · 305-620-2578

• Miami Heat A 4-5 hour drive to Miami
• 601 Biscayne Blvd, American Airlines Arena, Miami, FL 33132-1801 · 786-777-432

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The cost of living index is based on the composite price of groceries, housing, utilities, transportation, health care, clothing and entertainment.

Cost of living indexes will generally be higher in areas that offer access to beaches, culture, arts and recreation. In addition areas, that offer a wider variety of services such as health and education will run higher due to higher wages, and increased quality of living.

Cost of living indexing explanation
A figure of 100 points is used as an average both for the USA and Florida. For example:
Boise Idaho is ranked at a 99
Boston Mass is rated at 240
San Francisco at 217
Statewide, Florida cities come in from a low of 90 and up.
One way to compare Florida areas to salary requirements

For example-If you were relocating from Portland Oregon (whose rate 1s 94.0) to Orlando, and you currently make $50,000 per year, the formula is as follows
Take the destination index, in this case Orlando-94.0 and divide by Portland’s index-120, then multiply by a salary of $50,000. This will give you a figure of $39,166 which would be required to make in Orlando to have the same quality of life.
See comparable Florida statewide
* Re cost of living–in some areas Real Estate has went up dramatically however costs that factor in such as food, transportation, rents etc have not increased at the same rate-so in some areas, even though housing is expensive, the overall rating may still be low

2007 stats per Sperlings best Places http://www.bestplaces.net/

Boca Raton-154.74
Bradenton-114
Cape Coral-Ft Myers-108.0
Ft Lauderdale-132.0
Fort Walton-Destin-120
Jacksonville metro-94.0
Big Pine Key fl-132.46
Key Largo-146.0
Key West-168.0
Marathon fl-162.06
Miami metro-138.0
Melbourne-92.72
Naples Fl-250.59
Orlando metro-94.0
Palm Bay-84.56
Palm Coast-Flagler-125.01
Panama City-86.35
Pensacola metro-82.0
Sarasota-108.75
Tampa 94.60
St Pete-Clearwater-91.58
Vero-Beach Indian River-122.87
West Palm Beach metro-112.05
(Population Weighted-State Average=100
See national comparisons
Cost of living (100 = nationwide average)

* New York, NY -164.50
* Long Beach, CA -135.71
* Palo Alto, CA -234.42
* Boston, MA -127.60
* Malibu, CA -492.80
* San Francisco, -187.23
* Greenwich, CT 215
* Chicago, IL -126.45
* Dallas Tx -92,94
* Atlanta Ga -112.21

For more information about cost of living go to either 
Sperlings best Places http://www.bestplaces.net/
or Accra’s site at http://www.coli.org

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