He’d also just learned that he had a new grandson, and was going saltwater fishing at dawn. “It’s my birthday, bitch!” he called out. There is room and approval for nearly four thousand homes.) The neighbor was Jack Sjursen, a retired ironworker from Patchogue, on Long Island, who was turning sixty-two the next day.
(Phase 5, consisting of six hundred and forty-one homes, is now fully developed, and half sold, and lots are for sale in Phase 6. One of them was his neighbor from across the street in what was known as Phase 2-the second neighborhood to have been built. After a few moments, he apologized and introduced me to his friends. He wrote her back! I eulogized my brother with the lyrics from the song ‘The Captain and the Kid.’ You know it?” He was working on the space shuttle for Siemens. I had a brother, Dave, who died on July 11, 1988. “But do I like some of Jimmy’s music? Yes, I do. He preferred Bonnie Raitt, Little Feat, Stevie Ray Vaughan. At that moment, it was Steely Dan, “My Old School”-“I remember the thirty-five sweet goodbyes.” Murphy wasn’t actually a Parrothead, he said. Sometimes it’s Jimmy Buffett songs, sometimes it’s something else. You hear it in the village square, in the locker room at the gym, in the model villas that have been staged with plastic cheeseburgers and plastic margaritas. “Glory Days” on the speakers, bull sharks in the sea.Īt the Bar & Chill, and everywhere on the grounds, light classic rock plays all day. There is also a beach club on the coast, in Ormond-by-the-Sea, twenty minutes away by shuttle van, with pool, bar, and cabana set into the dunes, on the former site of a run-down motel, across from Hanky Panky’s Lounge.
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Tracts of development radiate out from the town center, where, in addition to the Bar & Chill and the sprawling puzzle-piece-shaped Paradise Pool, with palms, cabanas, and tiki huts, there is the Fins Up! fitness center, the Last Mango theatre and banquet hall, and an outdoor band shell and plaza, with a movie screen, for concerts, Sunday N.F.L. A popular indulgence is eight-foot-tall interior doors. People covet three-car garages, for their golf carts and motorcycles-there are a lot of both in Margaritaville-but most have two-car garages. The housing stock, a range of villas and cottages, is, by today’s standards, compact and tasteful-single-story buildings with sensible layouts and patios that, typically screened in, can look like aviaries. Photograph by Tobias Hutzler for The New Yorker Strangers befriended one another and decided, overnight, to become next-door neighbors.Ī swim class at Latitude Margaritaville. A movie played on a giant screen: “Jurassic World,” in which Buffett has a cameo as a bartender rescuing a couple of margaritas from an outdoor table before some pterosaurs swoop in. The parking-lot scene was on brand: it had a festival air, with tents, a steel-drum band, food trucks, and stacks of pizzas. In November, 2017, more than a hundred and fifty prospective buyers had camped out overnight in the parking lot of the sales center, in anticipation of opening day for down payments. They were early adopters but not true pioneers. We assessed the carrying costs.” The math, and a yearning for friends, told the Murphys to move to Margaritaville. They walked up and down the beach every day, but even a beach can get old. “We gutted it and did it up like we were going to die there,” he said. Jimmy Buffett playing twenty-four hours a day.’ We thought, Let’s go look, as a goof.”Īt the time, the Murphys had retired to a third-floor oceanfront condo down the coast, in Melbourne Beach: the perfect forever home.
All these people with parrots on their heads. I said, ‘Oh, my God, this fucking place is going to be awful. One of their friends declared them “the king and queen of the Bar & Chill.” Phil and Betty had organized an emergency fund for the restaurant’s staff during its Covid shutdown. He looked and sounded less like my idea of a Parrothead, as Jimmy Buffett’s diehard fans are called, than like Mike Ehrmantraut, the melancholic fixer in “Breaking Bad.” Standing off his left shoulder, his wife, Betty, red hair cut short, added a dash of urbanity, a spritz of Allison Janney. “I was in the air for twenty years,” he said. Formerly a research director at Forrester, retired since 2015. Phil Murphy, from Arlington, Massachusetts, aged sixty-four. The bald man, drinking a vodka soda, said his name was Phil.
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