The Florida Living Manual · 2027 Edition

Choosing Your Place

Name: The Florida Living Manual: Choosing Your Place
Brand: The Florida Living Manual
Price: 9.99 USD
Availability: InStock

Compare Florida's eleven regions and 780 towns before you move.

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Every fact footnoted to its sourceChecked 2026-11-05Works with no internet30-day money-back guaranteeOne-time price, no subscriptionSecure checkout through Payhip

See inside

Real screenshots at phone size. Swipe for more.

Screenshot: The home screen — The home screen

A region profile, footnoted

Screenshot: A town card: North Port — A town card: North Port

Screenshot: Compare regions side by side — Compare regions side by side

Screenshot: The monthly-cost calculator — The monthly-cost calculator

What's inside

Profiles of all eleven regions: weather, storms and flood risk, people, costs and insurance, hospitals, getting around, jobs, culture and history
780 town cards: home value, rent, median age, income, density, the nearest 24-hour ER, ER count within 15 miles, the nearest airline airport
Plan a scouting trip: a 15-question quiz that ranks every region with points you can check, then a 3, 5 or 7-day trip with what to check in each town, questions for the insurance agent, scorecards to fill in on your phone, and a side-by-side compare
A hurricane history map: every hurricane that passed within 50 miles of Florida since 1851, by 20-year period and by region, from NOAA's official database
Compare any three regions side by side
Settle in: the First 30 Days tracker, a monthly-cost calculator, and a house scorecard for renters, owners and mobile homes
The good stuff: history, famous names, must-sees and the stories only Florida produces
Search everything; print any profile or town card; footnotes on every fact

How it works

You download one file. Open it in the browser on your phone or computer; it needs no app, no account and no internet after that. Your notes and plan stay on your device.

Try it before you buy: read the free sample, the full Southwest Florida profile and the North Port town card exactly as they appear in the product.

Every fact sourced

Each figure and claim has a numbered footnote to the agency, dataset or article it came from: Census, NOAA, CMS, state and county offices. Facts were checked on 2026-11-05. How we check facts.

Money-back guarantee

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Written by Charles Squires, North Port, Florida. 40 years living in Florida, in eight places.

I've lived in Coral Gables, Fort Walton Beach and Destin, Pasco County, St. Petersburg, Tallahassee, Punta Gorda, Port Charlotte and North Port, and called on thousands of schools across the state for Books Are Fun.

More about the author and how this manual is made

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A Florida household plan that works offline: 118 quick answers for everyday Florida life, hurricanes, outages, water, food and medical needs; every region's county emergency and special-needs numbers; the First 30 Days checklist; and a print edition with contents, index and footnoted sources.

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