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Originally Posted by OhioBuckeye
You know if my water bill starts running that high I'll probably move out of the Villages. Some of us pay $140. a month for amenities (I pay $150. a mo.) & I know that has nothing to do with water but it's still an added expense that most places don't have. Then to add $100. plus dollars to that you're pushing $300. a month. I can go to another part of the country & buy a pretty good membership at a Country Club for $3,600. a yr. plus have enough money left over to do whatever I do here in The Villages. I came from Ohio, NW Ohio to be exact & my monthly water bills only averaged $12. a month. The Villages is a very exciting place to leave but from what I've been told by some older residents, things have really gotten expensive in the last 5 to 10 yrs. Yea, I know things have gone up with inflation but things here inside The Villages are more expensive than outside the Villages. In The Villages defense, water in Florida as a whole is more because I'm sure being in a very warm part of the U.S. water evaporates very quickly & our sandy soil really sucks up water. But unless you have a good savings & housing & utility bills keep going up, your savings will exhaust very quickly, unless you have a very good retirement, I don't!
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Can you really get a country club membership--including golf or not--for $3600 a year? Most of them even have a monthly minimum you have to spend on food. I'd like to know where this is and if it's in a year-round warm climate. If it's not, you're spending $3600 for at most 6 months of use. And I'd be surprised if that would include golf with no fees.