Have a self-sustaining or VERY secure job!!
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8/1/2010
North Port is a nice, mostly quiet bedroom community for families but jobs are scare here. The heat in the summer is OPPRESSIVE and you better find a place with a pool or you will be imprisoned in your own home from about May through October. The beach is 30 minutes away, but the water temps are so warm, it's not even refreshing. There is a HUGE flying grasshopper problem here and there are billions of them. They destroy plants and bombard you as you mow your lawn as they fly up out of the grass. Oh, that's another thing... I highly recommend having a riding lawn mower if you have more than 1/8 of an acre to mow. Not bad in the cooler months, but in summer, mowing by hand can literally kill you. The city has a mall nearby, (not a great one, but they have Sears and a Macy's and a few others. It's called Town center at Port Charlotte, FL if you wish to Google and learn more about it). There is a lot of undeveloped lots here, so you may have only two or three homes on your whole street and the rest of the lots are HEAVILY wooded, so you better like bobcat, raccoons, possums, wild boars and various other wild animals. I'd probably like it here if there were more jobs and it wasn't SO HOT in the summer. I hear the elementary schools are pretty good here, but do not know much about them. The roads are horrible here too. DEFINITELY pay North Port a 3-4 day visit before showing up with a rental truck full of furniture!
Patti | North Port, FL