Old Money in Florida

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up in Jacksonville but am not old southern money. My family moved to the south right after I was born. Before Jacksonville was a city, before they had a football team or an airport with more than 1 terminal. There is a ton of old money though throughout Florida. Little pockets in different cities. Some of the old money families are the kindest and most generous families you will meet. Not flashy but proper on occasion. Obviously not all of them are this way but a fair amount are and there are lots of lovely families like this.

Agree with this poster. Many of the old money families made their money in timber or land. Southern etiquette.

+1 from Jacksonville. It has an extensive history of being the winter retreat for many gilded age robber barons (think DuPonts, Colgates, etc) before the advent of air conditioning. There’s still plenty of old money families there but they don’t advertise it. It’s pretty insular unless you’ve been there for several generations.

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Anonymous wrote:The Naples Florida zip code has the largest concentration of old monied residents in the state of Florida.

The joke in Naples is that when you retire there in your 60's you think you are old and wealthy and then when you get there you realize you are neither! There is very serious money in Naples but people don't wear it on their sleeve as they do in Palm Beach.

Then general rule of thumb is that Easter coasters retire to the east coast of FL and midwesterners retire to the west coast of FL. In our many vacations to FL we find the friendliness and low key nature of the west coast of FL to be more enjoyable.

Yes I would agree with this. Except with Baby Boomers retiring more people from the East Coast, the lower class kind, are migrating to the Gulf Coast of Florida.

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Anonymous wrote:The oldest old money families in America may have places in Florida but they’re not from Florida. Old money doesn’t buy cigarette boats and glass block mansions on the inter coastal but Waffle House multi franchisees and plastic surgeons do.
Florida is a new money place and the pockets there don’t run nearly as deep as they do in New England.

Heh, you don't know Florida, obviously, beyond some TV shows.

Tampa - yes Tampa - has a lot of old money. It's one of the things that surprised us when we moved to the area. People would talk about someone being from "South Tampa" and it took us a while to understand that means they come from money.

St Pete - where we live - has some old money, too.

Hmm, I lived in South Tampa for a few years in my late 20s (moved 4 years ago) and I definitely noticed an old boys' club feel, but not necessarily old money. I thought the reason people specifically say South Tampa is because other parts of Tampa, including neighboring areas, can be really low-class or "white trash" (not my words).

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boca grande

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The oldest old money families in America may have places in Florida but they’re not from Florida. Old money doesn’t buy cigarette boats and glass block mansions on the inter coastal but Waffle House multi franchisees and plastic surgeons do.
Florida is a new money place and the pockets there don’t run nearly as deep as they do in New England.

Heh, you don't know Florida, obviously, beyond some TV shows.

Tampa - yes Tampa - has a lot of old money. It's one of the things that surprised us when we moved to the area. People would talk about someone being from "South Tampa" and it took us a while to understand that means they come from money.

St Pete - where we live - has some old money, too.

Hmm, I lived in South Tampa for a few years in my late 20s (moved 4 years ago) and I definitely noticed an old boys' club feel, but not necessarily old money. I thought the reason people specifically say South Tampa is because other parts of Tampa, including neighboring areas, can be really low-class or "white trash" (not my words).

I live in Tampa. South Tampa is not old money. It’s just code for that they live in a safe community with nice homes that you usually need to go out a bit further to find like in Westchase or Odessa, except South Tampa is also close to the city, so a bit more expensive. It also means the schools are good. The best schools in the county are Odessa/Lutz area and South Tampa. (And basically all of Pinellas county is similar to Tampa except an area in the north where it gets nicer, so those people are clear to say they live in Palm Harbor to explain that it’s not another part of the county.)

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Amelia Island

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Winter park

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The oldest old money families in America may have places in Florida but they’re not from Florida. Old money doesn’t buy cigarette boats and glass block mansions on the inter coastal but Waffle House multi franchisees and plastic surgeons do.
Florida is a new money place and the pockets there don’t run nearly as deep as they do in New England.

Heh, you don't know Florida, obviously, beyond some TV shows.

Tampa - yes Tampa - has a lot of old money. It's one of the things that surprised us when we moved to the area. People would talk about someone being from "South Tampa" and it took us a while to understand that means they come from money.

St Pete - where we live - has some old money, too.

My college boyfriend was from south tampa. It’s a really nice area. I could see Palma Ceia and bayshore being old money.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The oldest old money families in America may have places in Florida but they’re not from Florida. Old money doesn’t buy cigarette boats and glass block mansions on the inter coastal but Waffle House multi franchisees and plastic surgeons do.
Florida is a new money place and the pockets there don’t run nearly as deep as they do in New England.

Heh, you don't know Florida, obviously, beyond some TV shows.

Tampa - yes Tampa - has a lot of old money. It's one of the things that surprised us when we moved to the area. People would talk about someone being from "South Tampa" and it took us a while to understand that means they come from money.

St Pete - where we live - has some old money, too.

My college boyfriend was from south tampa. It’s a really nice area. I could see Palma Ceia and bayshore being old money.

and Davis Islands.

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Anonymous wrote:Hobe Sound, Jupiter Island, Vero Beach.

The old money is mainly people with second/third homes in these places. A primary residence anywhere USA, a summer house in coastal New England and a winter house in Florida.

This.

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There’s old money enclaves in every state. Florida is going to have more simply because of the desirable coastal areas and some old line club land clubs.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The oldest old money families in America may have places in Florida but they’re not from Florida. Old money doesn’t buy cigarette boats and glass block mansions on the inter coastal but Waffle House multi franchisees and plastic surgeons do.
Florida is a new money place and the pockets there don’t run nearly as deep as they do in New England.

Heh, you don't know Florida, obviously, beyond some TV shows.

Tampa - yes Tampa - has a lot of old money. It's one of the things that surprised us when we moved to the area. People would talk about someone being from "South Tampa" and it took us a while to understand that means they come from money.

St Pete - where we live - has some old money, too.

Hmm, I lived in South Tampa for a few years in my late 20s (moved 4 years ago) and I definitely noticed an old boys' club feel, but not necessarily old money. I thought the reason people specifically say South Tampa is because other parts of Tampa, including neighboring areas, can be really low-class or "white trash" (not my words).

I live in Tampa. South Tampa is not old money. It’s just code for that they live in a safe community with nice homes that you usually need to go out a bit further to find like in Westchase or Odessa, except South Tampa is also close to the city, so a bit more expensive. It also means the schools are good. The best schools in the county are Odessa/Lutz area and South Tampa. (And basically all of Pinellas county is similar to Tampa except an area in the north where it gets nicer, so those people are clear to say they live in Palm Harbor to explain that it’s not another part of the county.)

South Tampa isn’t just close to the city, it *is* the city. That’s why people specify they’re from there as opposed to the not so nice parts of the city or the burbs. It’s not specifically old money but there’s old money there.

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Any region of this county with industry has old money.

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Snell Isle

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Port Royal in Naples was always the de facto old money neighborhood, but COVID brought in a lot of foreign and Miami $$. Houses start around $20M now, I think before COVID you could get in for around $10M. Many are still seasonal though there’s definitely an uptick in FT residents with school-aged kids too.