Punta Gorda
is not only a great place to live, it's a great place for your friends and family to tour when they come visit your new home. Come look at these wonderful attractions for touring:

For the nature-loving with adventure-in-paradise in mind,
and for museums for the whole family as well...

	Artist colonies, galleries and museums Museum of the Islands, and WildChild Gallery
Or just a few miles north is the world famous	Solomon's Castle	Home and studio of sculptor, Howard Solomon. Extreme creativity, history and B&B.
Indian culture		DeepSea Fishing
The Everglades	Florida Adventure Museum hands-on exhibits manatees, fishing, space travel, Indians, and fossils.	Peace River Nature Boat Tours A rescue, rehabilitate and release facility for locally injured and orphaned wildlife.
Port Charlotte Beach Gulf-front, sandy beach, walking the coastline Also accessible by boat, Jet Ski		Sunsplash Family Waterpark 12 acres of thrilling waterslides just a couple miles south
And everywhere you turn there are... Palm-surrounded Florida mansions and bungalows		Orange trees and tropical floral displays year round

And then there's the nightlife:

Celtic Rae	Mooseheads Cigar and Jazz Lounge	Turtle Club and reams of fine dining

With or without visitors to be sharing it with, Punta Gorda's club life is without equal. Private and public.

Yachting, Golf, Equestrian... are a way of life, especially in the golf condos. Join the PGBoatClub, the PeaceRiver PowerSquadron, or many others. Some with reciprocal membersips as well.

and of course our waterfront life.

With a city plan like ours here in Punta Gorda, the desirable waterfront life is everywhere. Especially in the Isles area where canals are as integrated into our layout as are our dryland roadways.

Canal Life This is our uniquely special way of life on the canals, fishing on our own dock, swimming, lounging on the shady lanai, patio dining, fresh sea air, lovely water sounds, cool sea breezes with our blindingly bright sunshine, picking our own fresh oranges.

Of course if you would prefer a condo, or an inland gated world, we have those as well.


There are even ranch homes, complete with stables and modest acreage.

And even mundane daily business chores have the Punta Gorda flavor.
Meet our Chamber of Commerce lifestyle features

Life on the water is freeing and exciting	In December, come & enjoy our Lighted Boat Parade
There's regular Trolley touring of our local sites for visitors as well as residents	A sense of community among local business people, complete with regular socials We look forward to the Wine and Food Fest in January. See how nice January weather can be!

And, speaking of the weather...
our hazards are confined to our fall months, and are predictable days in advance, not just to the date but also to the severity. With this sort of measuring activity, we make intelligent use of our fundamental abilities. With exceptional improvements in post-Andrew years: Seldom do municipalities challenge the insurance and construction industries' opposition to regulation updating.
But Punta Gorda succeeded.

We have the enviable distinction of being the Number One Best Prepared City in the USA according to the weather station judges, with research done and planning established and implemented.

And we make certain our seawall is totally well maintained, no weak links. Our completing construction steps are implementable and now required of all new construction. Fully engineered roof tie-down designs are built in to completely establish our hold on the Number One sensibility award.

We at ANorthernExposure.com challenge our real estate competitors to fully inform their clients on this improvement and our achievement in preparedness.

Should you think that we have underestimated global warming, we would point out that even the best outside estimates of changes does show that no further increases in the strength of hurricanes is even possible. Category 5 is as strong as any earthly hurricance can or will ever be.

Should you think that the infamous Category 5 - Katrina is a counterexample, we will emphasize that New Orleans survived Katrina with all its fury. Katrina was already retreating, dissipated. It was their own negligence that undid New Orleans, which we have mandated will never happen in Punta Gorda.

When you live in Punta Gorda, you have a full, coordinated storm planning crew, totally updated seawall, required individual home engineering, and advance input on alerts for the safety of us less well engineered humans and our pets. Even the waterfront canals of Punta Gorda do not require evacuation of personnel (humans and pets) unless storm warnings reach Category 2, and the PG/Charlotte County website has all of our individual plans online including your designated routes to nearby areas of safer surge-zones -- and/or supply preparations for the much more likely smaller storms.

For your information we at ANorthernExposure.com can and will supply you with the preparedness plan for homes of your consideration, or you can download them from CharlotteCounty's Storm Surge center. No more excuses for Hurricane Andrew's littering pre PG's roof engineering regulations that went into effect in that cleanup of wind/washing damages.

Hurricanes are tame compared to tornados and we prefer our year-round gorgeous weather (without west-coast earthquakes too!) to hideously incapacitating northern winter weather with unpredictable tornados to boot all spring and summer.

So come talk to us at ANorthernExposure.

And even though you may become so enamored of the Punta Gorda lifestyle that you will not want to ever leave, ever, never fear being closed in. Our location is amply supplied with easy access to the outside world, should you -- or they -- wish to visit. We don't believe you will ever want to really leave but freedom of movement is here for you. And for your ease of visiting -- without jetskiing down the Mississipppi and Ohio Rivers -- we'll escort our buyers to make their closing judgments on the home here of their choice using USA3000 at our regional airport in adjacent Ft Myers. Then we'll prepare your sunny convertible's rental and your stay at our own in-town PuntaGorda Best Western. That's our plan for you to access your Sweetened Closing Cost Deal from ANorthernExposure's BobBare.
That's the BobBare Experience.

Come talk to us


Always getting better...