Port St. Lucie, Florida

If you’re a family or retiree looking for a quiet, safe, reasonably priced city to live near the Atlantic Coast beaches of Florida, Port St. Lucie will fit the bill. Primarily suburban, with some commercial options for shopping and eats, it successfully gives families and retirees a respite from whatever Northeastern or Midwestern ice-bound hellscape they seek to escape.

Your lifestyle in Port St. Lucie will be suburban. The schools are pretty good, there are decent parks, and there is a restaurant scene for filling the kiddo's bellies with burgers, pizza, pasta, and seafood. The city is the spring training home to the New York Mets and has an amazing golf complex, the PGA Village. You’re also on the Atlantic Coast with 21 miles of uncrowded (there’s that quiet thing again), pristine beaches, so if you’re feeling like a dip or a stroll, you’re going to like it here.

If you want to see what's happening in Point St. Lucie, check out the calendar of events.

We highly recommend visiting Point St. Lucie and staying in the community in a VRBO rather than a hotel to get a feel for what it's like to live among the locals. You can receive discounted fares on travel via our partnership with Expedia as well.

The two big work sectors in the city include healthcare, not surprising given the retiree population, and construction, also not surprising given the never-ending expansion of cities across Florida. Service jobs are plentiful, given the booming population that needs to be fed and sold stuff. Incomes aren’t particularly high, but the cost of living and taxes are low, so it kind of works.