[ReprintArticles-Paradise] No more winters; I Found Palm Coast, Florida
Free-Reprint Article Written by: Conrad Allen See Terms of Reprint Below. * * * This email is being delivered directly to members of the group: * *ReprintArticles-Paradise@yahoogroups.com * * We have moved our TERMS OF REPRINT to the end of the article. Be certain to read our TERMS OF REPRINT and honor our TERMS OF REPRINT when you use this article. Thank you. This article has been distributed by: http://Article-Distribution.com Helpful Link: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act - Overview http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/dmca1.htm - Article Title: == No more winters; I Found Palm Coast, Florida Article Description: During a visit to Florida I noticed how great I felt in the middle of winter. Eureka! The Florida sun with all its magical, serotonin-inducing powers had cured me! I was on to something. Additional Article Information: === 1011 Words; formatted to 65 Characters per Line Distribution Date and Time: Thu Feb 9 02:42:09 EST 2006 Written By: Conrad Allen Copyright: 2006 Contact Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Article URL: http://thePhantomWriters.com/free_content/d/a/no-more-winters-in-palm-coast-florida.shtml For more free-reprint articles by this Author, please visit: http://thePhantomWriters.com/free_content/d/index.shtml#Conrad_Allen - No more winters; I Found Palm Coast, Florida Copyright © 2006 Conrad Allen Affordable Florida Homes http://www.affordablefloridahomes.com Those that know me think I'm a pretty happy fellow-and I am. I love a good joke, I'm quick with a smile, and I like meeting new people-that's why I chose sales as a career. But during fall and winter it was a real struggle to smile. Something about winter always sucked the wind from my sails. It was 3 to 4 months of torture. But I never let on how much I hated winter. HATED IT! I had Winter Blues Depression Syndrome. (I made that term up) It wasn't depression in the clinical sense, it was more like When will Spring get here? I can't take many more dark, cold days. I also felt cheated out of days of life when it was too cold to venture outdoors and I stayed cooped up in the house. There had to be a cure. There's a scientific term called Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), a depression that occurs during the fall and winter months due to a drop in brain serotonin levels. Results indicated that the activity of serotonin-containing neurons was lowest during the fall and winter and highest in spring and summer, when sunlight is most plentiful. Serotonin was obviously in very short supply in my brain. I had to find a supply and a cure for SAD. During a visit to Florida I noticed how great I felt in the middle of winter. Eureka! The Florida sun with all its magical, serotonin-inducing powers had cured me! I was on to something. Even after returning home, the effect seemed to linger and stay with me. We began to vacation in Florida, once or twice a year when time and money permitted. Planning the trips was almost as therapeutic as taking them. We started out in the Florida Panhandle, but quickly chose Central Florida as our favorite destination. We became friends with Mickey Mouse and our vacations there helped make Disney the empire it is today. Florida sun was good to me. Every year we talked about moving there and even made symbolic plans to relocate. We researched the cost of living, housing costs, even the school districts. Then finally, soon after a painful year in which we lost some close family members and friends, we decided- Life is Indeed Too Short! We quit our jobs, sold the house, loaded the rental truck and headed for Central Florida; Palm Coast to be specific. I had spent countless hours on http://www.Realtor.com checking house prices, and found that homes in Palm Coast were almost half of those in the Orlando area. Palm Coast still has many lots available to build on, and there are so many home builders you can surely find a design you want. One company is even building houses with solid concrete walls, a feature I'd like if a hurricane ever passes this way. Speaking of hurricanes, I was looking at a map from http://www.NOAA.gov the other day, and found that at least since 1950, no hurricane has made landfall near Palm Coast. I don't know if it's Divine Intervention or just plain good luck. A few old sages mentioned upper Jet Streams, ocean currents and similar possible reasons, but I don't care. I just like the odds. The Flagler County School District is one of the finest in Florida, and unemployment is quite low. It's only a few minutes from the Atlantic Ocean and just 20 or so minutes to Daytona
[ReprintArticles-Paradise] No more winters; I Found Palm Coast, Florida
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