The golf cart, it turns out, is not a golf thing. It is an infrastructure decision.
In master-planned communities across St. Johns County, and Nocatee in particular, the golf cart occupies the same role that the bicycle held in a certain version of American childhood: it is how you get around, it gives children their first taste of independent range, and it quietly redefines what counts as nearby.
The communities here were designed with golf cart paths threaded through them from the beginning, and the effect is that the cart is not an accessory to life in the neighborhood. It is the medium through which life in the neighborhood happens.
The restaurant is five cart minutes. The splash park is ten. Publix is twelve, though you will discover that a golf cart can carry more groceries than physics would suggest if you approach the problem correctly. Your child's school pickup is doable by cart, and once you have done it twice you will wonder why you ever brought the car.
You will start measuring the world in golf cart time. Not walking distance. Not driving distance. Golf cart distance. This is its own unit, and it is more useful than either of the others.
