Your gardening techniques/rules are so much different from mine. We are thinking of moving, maybe to the Alabama coast. I would move my landscape business, which means I’d have to learn how to plant for tropical, different soils, different shrubs.
Here in Georgia we have that dreaded red clay. And bad drought and heat. In my neck of the woods, we also have deer which are quite pesky.
Before we moved to Spain we lived in Forsyth County, Cumming to be exact, near Lake Lanier. I still vote as a Georgian via absentee ballot. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine Georgia turning blue.