Been vacationing in Destin since I was a kid. Boyfriend and I, now husband, would come every year and sometime in the 80's we found 30A. Bought a lot in 1990 and then built a small vacation house. I had been laid off from the oil industry and at the time there were absolutely no jobs so I taught math and science, during my Summer off we got married May 31, 1991 and honeymooned in our new house here. After the summer told my husband I was going to sell my house in Sunset, LA and we would move here. He said sure, thinking I'd take years to sell the house. Buried a St. Joseph statue under the for sale sign and we we're loading up the trucks for Santa Rosa Beach by November.
Moral of the story-Best thing that ever happened to me was loosing my good paying oil company job and selling my house for $15,000 less than I paid for it.
). When they agree to online classes, I want to move to SoWal. It will break our hearts to leave our architectural gem of a home in Georgia, a reproduction 1830's Louisiana plantation home designed by Dr. Samuel Wilson, Jr., of Koch & Wilson architects in NOLA. But our hearts would be healed by being in paradise, the 30A corridor. Plus eventually we will have to give up the house because it's so big and expensive to maintain, especially in the future as we get older and can no longer DIY. We thought it would be our family home for generations, but truthfully our daughter has no desire to live in this small town -- she prefers to be in Atlanta. We can buy a condo in ATL for shopping and being-close-to-daughter purposes.
