Notes from someone who lives here
Neighborhood breakdowns, relocation practicalities, and what is actually changing around Pensacola. Updated weekly.
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Choosing a Pensacola Neighborhood by Which Base You Use
How to pick a Pensacola neighborhood around your actual gate, commute, and PCS timeline, not just the map.
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The Nine Mile Road Chick-fil-A move says more about Pensacola growth than you think
The East Nine Mile Road Chick-fil-A is approved to relocate to the former Dodge's property. Here is how to read commercial investment if you are buying or selling in that part of Pensacola.
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Choosing where to live in Pensacola when you work twelves
Why mileage is the wrong measure for shift workers, and how to pick a Pensacola neighborhood around a 7am start instead.
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Launch is opening on Davis Highway, and what a new amenity does to an area
Launch Family Entertainment opens in Pensacola on October 16. Here is the honest version of what a new amenity does and does not do to the property around it.
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A megachurch bought the Sam's Fun City property. What matters is what goes there next.
Destiny Worship Center bought the closed Pensacola amusement park and demolition is underway. Here is how to think about what a change like this does to the property around it.
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PCSing to Pensacola: what to do in the first 30 days
The order of operations that keeps a PCS house hunt from falling apart, from someone who does this with military families regularly.