“NO, not Boca Raton.” That’s a correction residents of the little community of Boca Grande, Fla., are used to making after saying they have a home there.
In fact, this quiet barrier island off the Gulf Coast is so little known — especially when compared with flashier Florida destinations — that sometimes, when residents call county offices with a request, office workers say the place doesn’t exist.
“It’s right out of the 1950s,” said Marjorie Webb, who has owned a house in Boca Grande, which covers most of Gasparilla Island, since 1997. “No high-rises, no fast food, no chain stores, no traffic lights.”
The house was originally her second home, but it is now her primary residence, trading places with her house in Greenwich, Conn.