Hi Dreamer, I'm in the Florida Panhandle, in Pensacola area. I love it here. Hurricanes come thru anywhere in Florida afterall, it's surrounded in 3 sides by water. The main thing is you can get out of the way of a hurricane. You have days to prepare, days to either stay or go and days after to recover. We have what we call a Paradise Tax. High cost of living, low wages but a beautiful place to live. It gets too hot in the summer but mostly mild in the winter. Schools were out 3 day for ice on the roads. We never had any ice. It was in the northern end of the county not the southern end. The down side is there really aren't four seasons here. Spring starts in January/February. It's my favorite time of the year.