Hey, welcome to
321 and Brevard! We're glad you're moving here, so here's some general questions/comments that you may find useful.
Locals, if there's edits you'd like me to make feel free to comment and I'll make changes.
Living Areas (from north to south) Mims/Scottsmoor: No clue, lived here for 16 years and have never been to either of these areas. There's a berry farm in Mims, that's all I've got.
Titusville: Older city that is pretty quiet and not much going on. Most of the people who work at the Cape live in Merritt Island nowadays. Titusville is starting to pick up a tiny bit, but not much.
u/scalz1 provides his extensive experience with Tville Port St John: Rural Titusville. Not much going on here other than housing and some nice parks. Close to 528 and 95 for commuters though.
Merritt Island: This is a popular place to live, especially if you're working at or near the Cape. Not really seeing much new growth, but has chain shopping spots and restaurants mixed in with good local spots. People who live here frequently joke about the number of times they leave "the island" usually being able to be counted on one hand.
Cocoa: Older, lower income area. Cocoa Village is a nice area with plenty of shops, restaurants/breweries, and walking areas, but beyond that Cocoa isn't much. As
u/hyperrnovva emphasizes, Cocoa and Cocoa Beach are different areas entirely, with the bulk of Merritt Island separating them completely.
Cape Canaveral/Cocoa Beach: Beach side living in a high tourist area. Plenty of local places, but usually always packed with tourists. If you wanna live beach side, there's probably better options unless you like to hang out with strangers a lot.
Rockledge: Popular place to move to for people looking to commute to Orlando. Has access to the necessities easily and is close to chain things in Viera. Barton area is starting to be rebuilt into a downtown-like area with bars and night life.
Viera/Suntree: This is where a lot of Brevard's growth is happening. It's "sterile" and nice, with retirees and younger families galore. Has chain shopping and restaurants and lots of clean looking, mass developments. HOA Heaven. Pretty sure you're required to buy a golf cart to live here (not really, but you'll certainly feel like it).
Melbourne/West Melbourne: The "main" part of the county. It's older, but everything you need is here. There are areas you might consider avoiding, as in any city, but in general if you live in central or south Brevard, this is the area you'll find yourself coming to a lot.
Eau Gallie/Downtown Melbourne: These are considered the "younger" parts of town where "the scene" is. These two areas have the nightlife, the bars, and the walking lifestyles for the most part. Both are starting to see a lot of new growth around this identity.
Satellite Beach/Indian Harbor Beach/Indiatlantic: This is where most people who want a beach side lifestyle will find what they're looking for. Condos are there for certain, but considerably less touristy than Cocoa Beach and Cape Canaveral.
Palm Bay: Suburban sprawl till your heart is content. Palm Bay has 4 main arteries: Palm Bay Rd and Malabar Rd running east/west with Babcock St and Minton Rd running north/south. If you're looking for something in Palm Bay, this is it. Everywhere else is pretty much just housing.
Bayside Lakes: A relatively newer, "upper-scale" version of Palm Bay, also to be considered Viera-lite. There's a lot of new development planned in the area with the completion of the new 95 interchange that allows Bayside Lakes to not be 20 minutes from 95 which was most of what kept people from wanting to live there.
Melbourne Beach: Moreso than the other beach side communities, this is the "local" area. There's plenty of money in Mel Beach, but it's secluded and, especially the southern parts, very hard to get in and out of easily if you wanna go somewhere.
Grant-Valkaria: The last part of our journey, a rural community. Beyond grocery stores and gas stations, you won't find much unless you head back north into Palm Bay. They have bitchin' seafood/BBQ festivals though, which is the main reason people find their way there.
Micco: Very rural community that will eventually get connected to the St John's Heritage Parkway that's being built along the western part of the county and would allow easier access to 95. This could open up growth to the area, but for now the extension is just in the planning phase.
Regarding Hurricanes Hurricanes are part of living in Florida. Some years nothing happens, some years it's a wild ride. Brevard being a coastal county has unique considerations when moving here. While Brevard does not regularly recieve direct landfalls (part of the reason Kennedy Space Center was built where it was), we do face our fair share of hurricanes.
If you're going to live beach side, then you need to take hurricanes seriously. Wind conditions leading up to them can and will cause the bridges to the mainland to close, meaning you can be cut off for extended periods from everything, including emergency services. Flooding/Storm Surge are real dangers to life and property. Make sure you have a plan way in advance for the high likelihood that you will lose both electricity and running water.
The further you get away from the coast and intracoastal zone, the lower the risks you have from severe damage from hurricanes, even major ones. But still have a plan, because anything can happen. Look for houses that have hurricane shutters or look into getting your home fit with them. Consider areas with buried power lines, as they're less likely to lose power. You can have a storm like Faye sit off the coast for days and flood almost everything. You can have tornadoes spawn from them. Fences are regular casualties of almost any named storm. Trees should be trimmed well in advance, paying close attention to when final collections occur before the storm hits so you don't have piles of potential wind debris laying in your yard.
That said, I'm obligated to add as a 6th gen Floridian: hurricanes are typically overblown by the media and should not be a major deterrent to moving to Brevard. As long as you have a plan and make sure that you're ready for the worst that could happen, you should almost always come out of the other side of hurricanes fine. Our local government knows how to handle them and a lot of infastructure is built to withstand them. Most of us who have been through many of them don't consider anything Cat 3 or less to be anything more than a couple hour inconvenience. But always have a plan, no matter what.
Night life Breweries: Playalinda (Titusville), Intracoastal (Eau Gallie) and Hell 'n Blazes (DT Mel) are the big dogs around, but definite shout outs to Bugnutty and Dirty Oar (Cocoa Village), and BeachFly (Rockledge). Florida Beer Co in Cape Canaveral is great also, but they're more of a big time distributor player and don't often try new things.
Restaurants: Too many great ones to mention. Check the comments, I'm sure people will have input. (Cryderman's (Cocoa Village/DT Mel), if you're into BBQ, is absolutely amazing)
Bars: Hell if I know. I'll need input on this. Eau Gallie, Downtown Melbourne, and Cocoa Village are where you'll find most.
Clubs: If I know nothing about bars here, I know less about clubs here.
Parks: They're everywhere. Literally, we love our parks here. Wickham Park is great and big, Max K Rhodes has most everything you could want, Palm Bay Regional is sprawling and has a lot, and Turkey Creek is top notch nature walks. Brevard Zoo gets an honorable mention as a great place to walk and is usually one of the top rated zoos in the country, and also has a long walking trail (Linear Park) that's free to access.
LGBTQ+ While Brevard is solidly red, it's pretty socially tolerant. There's a distinctly growing liberal movement starting up in Brevard, centered mostly around Eau Gallie and DT Melbourne. It's not got a lot of footholds, but it's slowly carving out new ones as time passes. In general though, Brevard's pretty live-and-let-live so the likelihood that you'll be harassed anywhere in public when out and about with your partner seems pretty low. Disclaimer: am CIS male, but from what the LGBTQ+ people I know say, the above should be true.
Space Coast Pride is a large and active community here, with both a Facebook page and a website.
Toll Roads and You Welcome to Central Florida, home of what seems like every toll road on the planet. You can certainly get from Brevard to Orlando without tolls, but it's significantly more efficient to use tolls. 528, 417, and 408 will likely become regular parts of your life if you're heading west for any reason.
u/Im_Not_Nick_Fisher provides a nice summary of the different quick toll methods available:
E-pass Vs Sunpass... most likely want one or the other for all the tolls around Florida. Both are accepted across Florida, Georgia and North Carolina. E-PASS has less issues. Plus the advantage of their Uni, which is accepted across 18 states. I’m not certain about sunpass, but E-PASS gives you discounts on most tolls in central Florida
As a note, SunPass (ran by Florida Dept of Transportation) has
recently converted their systems to allow Ez-Pass from northern states this maintenance definitely happened but since I can't find any news sources confirming it works, I'm crossing it out for now. E-PASS is ran by Central Florida Expressway Authority and is a separate system, although most tolls nowadays accept both SunPass
(by extension, Ez-Pass) and E-PASS.
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