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What do you love about living in Clay County?

By Wesley LeBlanc wesley@opcfla.com
Posted 9/23/20

CLAY COUNTY – There’s a difference between your house and your home.

A house is simply where you live. A home, however, is where you build a family, take care of pets, make memories and work …

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Facebook question of the week

What do you love about living in Clay County?


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CLAY COUNTY – There’s a difference between your house and your home.

A house is simply where you live. A home, however, is where you build a family, take care of pets, make memories and work with those in your life to carve new steps into the future.

People can live all over the world without ever feeling like they’re home. We asked our readers about their homes in Clay County and what they love about this area.

“Peace and quiet,” resident Teresa Foster said.

Short and succinct but to the point. Anyone who sits through a Board of County Commissioners meeting knows that there are residents who want Clay County’s more rural “peace and quiet” lifestyle to remain and those same people feel threatened by the onset of new developments be it neighborhoods, schools or something massive like the First Coast Expressway.

There was some support of those same developments during the same meeting as well though, which just goes to show the melting pot of emotions residents have for Clay County. It’s Clay County’s beautiful outdoors and schools that makes the area so awesome for resident Raul Mireles.

Some of our readers believe the county’s more agricultural aspects to be what makes calling Clay County home a plus.

“I love the large agricultural presence and country charm in the community,” Rosie Collins said. “I wish we were not developing so much across the county where we may end up losing that.”

Gina Juras agreed and said it’s the agriculture in the county is her favorite part of it but when it came to things she wished were different in Clay, it’s that Orange Park only has two entrance points: Blanding Boulevard and U.S. Highway 17.

Resident Lillie Andrews’ favorite thing about clay county is that “so many people still have old fashioned ethics and morals” and that “prayer is still valued.”

What makes Clay County home for you? What’s your favorite thing about Clay County and what’s one thing you wish was different about the area? Let us know on our Facebook Question of the Week on the Clay Today Newspaper Facebook page.