Why People Move Here

St. Johns County on Wednesday was named fifth on CNN Money’s list of “2013 Best Places to Live: Where the Jobs Are.” It said the county’s “vitals were strong” and cited job growth from 2010 to 2012 as 12.1 percent. “It’s the healthiest county in Florida and leads the state in publ...
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Picking a place to retire is a pretty big deal. Any good financial planner will advise you to start thinking about where you want to live well before you enter those retirement years. If you don't plan to retire in the home you've lived in for years, you may go to one of those "Best places to ret...
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Studies have proven what St. Johns County residents already knew: This is the healthiest place in Florida. The fourth annual national study of all 50 states was released Wednesday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and ranked St. Johns County first in the state when measuring today’s persona...
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The national concert industry publication Pollstar has named the St. Augustine Amphitheatre to its list of the 100 top Amphitheatre venues worldwide. The distinction is based on ticket sales reported to Pollstar for shows played between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2012. The St. Augustine Amphitheatre ran...
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Located at the northeast corner of Florida, St. Augustine is the oldest occupied European settlement in the United States. Having changed hands from the Spanish, English and ultimately The United States, its incredible architecture reflects  its diverse heritage.  While it hardly seems like someth...
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Another First Coast institution of higher learning has made the U.S. News & World Report's list of Best Regional Colleges in the South. Flagler College has been ranked 10th in the South by the guide, according to a release from the school. More than 1,600 schools across America are on the lis...
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Flagler College has once again been named one of the top colleges in the country in the 2013 edition of The Princeton Review’s book, “The Best 377 Colleges.” Annually published since 1992, “The Best 377 Colleges” is one of 150 Princeton Review books published by Random House. In additio...
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Chances are if you’re registered to vote in Florida, you like St. Augustine. At least that’s what one poll shows. Public Policy Polling randomly sampled 642 registered voters in Florida in an automated telephone survey that asked whether they thought favorably of 10 major cities in the sta...
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Joyner: ‘You run out of superlatives’ to describe scores in reading, math, science St. Johns County students are ending the school year on a high note — the district ranked first in the state across the board on the Florida Comprehensive Achievement Test 2.0 reading exam. The scores rele...
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St. Augustine is a great place to be a historic structure, according to one website. National website Livability.com named St. Augustine as one of the country’s top spots for historic preservation. City Commissioner Nancy Sikes-Kline, who is also a member of the Citizens for the Preservation...
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