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Where on the US east coast would one go to find:

elevation 500 feet or higher
maximum 1 hour drive from the sea (if only 500ft drops into the sea)
maximum 2,5 hours drive from a major airport
ability to grow things like avocado's (so only light frosts up to sporadic 15°F)

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Welcome to the forum.

There is only one place on the US East Coast that fits your criteria.

Florida

With a greenhouse, you might get Avocados to ripen in some of the other states near Florida though I have no experience growing an avocado indoors..

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Only used avo's as a temperature gauge. Light frosts down to 15°F.
Florida is only up to 345 feet at its highest, right?

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Jon Lace wrote:Light frosts down to 15°F.

15F is a good hard freeze...did you mean 15C?

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Judith Browning wrote:

Jon Lace wrote:Light frosts down to 15°F.

15F is a good hard freeze...did you mean 15C?

https://floridafruitgeek.com/cold-hardy-avocados/

This is where I got the 15F, and the idea a perma garden higher north could do with one?

But forgetting this temperature spec for a moment. 500 ft or higher, 1 hour max from the sea on the eastcoast. Which places furthest South?

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There might be something helpful in this wikipedia article...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Coast_of_the_United_States

Seems like there might be some good specialized east coast maps somewhere with the information you seek.

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