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Think about this for a minute. Aren't all the cities, towns, villages and counties you came from up north governed by the residents? You vote for supervisors, mayors, councilmen or managers and you vote about budgets, taxes, spending, even zoning. The mayor may have been your neighbor. It'll be the same here. That's what the Florida law is suppose to do, gradually move control from the developer when few people here - to the residents when it's fully built out.

What's a little scary is for the new owners of the Country Clubs to take them (and the Championship Courses) private with dues, greens fees and monthly restaurant tabs. But I doubt this would happen anytime soon. There's too much competition from the CDD owned Executive Courses.

And as far as forming it's own city or town, The Villages stretches over 3 counties plus incorporated (Lady Lake) and un-incorporated areas. It's nearly impossible to pull this off. Do you think Lady Lake wants to lose this tax base? We have rich tax payers and don't need schools. Also seniors mean lower crime rates. Lady Lake is the luckiest town in Florida - lots of income and little out go.

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