If you haunt Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale and Miami year in and year out, snooting at the rest of the Sunshine State, you’ve done yourself a disservice. Across the Everglades, over central Florida’s soupy inland lakes, through the Democratic People’s Republic of Disney and along the Gulf Coast are many splendid cities.
Sure, they may have once lured, by and large, middle-class Southern families, snowbirds, Scientologists and college kids whose idea of a good time was a twelver of Natural Light, but no more. Over the last decade, things have upscaled: Ritz, St. Regis, Cabot — they’re the Gucci, Fendi, Prada of a new West Coast Florida.
Catch up on all the new luxury the other coast has to offer below.