Navarre Beach is between Ft Walton Beach and Pensacola. Used to live there. Strong military presence as Hurlburt Field is about a 15min drive and Eglin AFB is about a 30min drive. Mind you, this was back in the 90's. Wasn't dense with people and was a great neighborhood and literally a stones throw from the beach.
Niceville/Valparaiso is (was?) full of retirees, on the East side of Eglin, situated on an inlet to the ocean, is also a great place to be. Also very high Military/retired Mil presence.
Traveling along the coast eastward, you have Destin. Ok place to live, but it's got a lot of party places catering to the military so it get a bit rowdy.
Further along HWY98 (Gulf Coast hwy) you have Sandestin. Lot of money in this town (or was) with nice houses, streets, people.
Last one I know (knew?) fairly well is Panama City. This place is crazy during Spring Break. Great place to visit but unless you're into a flood of drunk and horny College people once a year, I waffle a bit on living there. As I said tho, it IS a pretty fun city to visit.
In between all these main towns and cities are smaller towns. They didn't offer much in the way of conveniences so you'd have to travel a bit if you wanted to get everything in one or two stops, but that also was their charm. Navarre used to be like that until it "blew up" in popularity.
I reiterate, this is opinions based on 1992-1998 and what I experienced while stationed at Hurlburt Field at Ft Walton Beach. There's online guides to these places you can look into for just about any question you might have on them; i.e. property taxes, housing costs, schools, crime rates, etc.
Good luck!
Edit: oh and, BTW...these are ALL on the beach ;-)
Thank you so much for all that information I was in Pensacola once just to rent jet skis for my daughter and her friend we were in Orange Beach Alabama at a wedding so I'm thinking all those places are close to Alabama so the beaches have to be beautiful I'm gonna start looking into it thank you so much for the tips that sounds exactly what I'm looking for
Oh yeh...fine granule white "sugar" sand far as the eye can see in both directions and pretty clear, slightly blue-green, water when storms haven't stirred things up. Why it's called the Emerald Coast!!
Thank you ! I'm in San Diego , the sand isn't beautiful and the water is cold , but overall San Diego is beautiful , unfortunately it's turning into LA and it is Cali after all !!!
I bought a home here long ago , back when it was normal and Republican !
My two kids want to keep house , I'm all they have so that's fine , I have another daughter, special needs who would go with me , she loves the water so warm water is a plus , we were at the beach today , it was freezing !
I know I have to get out of here , I talked to frens on here about Tennessee which would be great for me but the ocean is so thereputic for my daughter so I need to do what's best for her ! I can't wait to start looking and dreaming thank you !
Navarre Beach is between Ft Walton Beach and Pensacola. Used to live there. Strong military presence as Hurlburt Field is about a 15min drive and Eglin AFB is about a 30min drive. Mind you, this was back in the 90's. Wasn't dense with people and was a great neighborhood and literally a stones throw from the beach.
Niceville/Valparaiso is (was?) full of retirees, on the East side of Eglin, situated on an inlet to the ocean, is also a great place to be. Also very high Military/retired Mil presence.
Traveling along the coast eastward, you have Destin. Ok place to live, but it's got a lot of party places catering to the military so it get a bit rowdy.
Further along HWY98 (Gulf Coast hwy) you have Sandestin. Lot of money in this town (or was) with nice houses, streets, people.
Last one I know (knew?) fairly well is Panama City. This place is crazy during Spring Break. Great place to visit but unless you're into a flood of drunk and horny College people once a year, I waffle a bit on living there. As I said tho, it IS a pretty fun city to visit.
In between all these main towns and cities are smaller towns. They didn't offer much in the way of conveniences so you'd have to travel a bit if you wanted to get everything in one or two stops, but that also was their charm. Navarre used to be like that until it "blew up" in popularity.
I reiterate, this is opinions based on 1992-1998 and what I experienced while stationed at Hurlburt Field at Ft Walton Beach. There's online guides to these places you can look into for just about any question you might have on them; i.e. property taxes, housing costs, schools, crime rates, etc.
Good luck!
Edit: oh and, BTW...these are ALL on the beach ;-)
Thank you so much for all that information I was in Pensacola once just to rent jet skis for my daughter and her friend we were in Orange Beach Alabama at a wedding so I'm thinking all those places are close to Alabama so the beaches have to be beautiful I'm gonna start looking into it thank you so much for the tips that sounds exactly what I'm looking for
Oh yeh...fine granule white "sugar" sand far as the eye can see in both directions and pretty clear, slightly blue-green, water when storms haven't stirred things up. Why it's called the Emerald Coast!!
Hope you find what you're looking for!
Thank you ! I'm in San Diego , the sand isn't beautiful and the water is cold , but overall San Diego is beautiful , unfortunately it's turning into LA and it is Cali after all !!! I bought a home here long ago , back when it was normal and Republican ! My two kids want to keep house , I'm all they have so that's fine , I have another daughter, special needs who would go with me , she loves the water so warm water is a plus , we were at the beach today , it was freezing ! I know I have to get out of here , I talked to frens on here about Tennessee which would be great for me but the ocean is so thereputic for my daughter so I need to do what's best for her ! I can't wait to start looking and dreaming thank you !