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I bet our story is the most unusual! We are from England but I was with my husband who was working in the Navy in the Middle East (Oman).

One of the members of our golf club happened to mention that he had bought a house in The Villages, Florida where there was "free golf". Of course my husband's ears pricked up and that was it. We had previously looked at Spain but didn't like it and on the way to Florida my husband said "don't get too excited, probably nothing will come of it". But once we got there we loved it and on the way back on the plane we were already planning how we would finance it.

We bought in February 2002 in Piedmont (a courtyard villa) but decided a few years later that we felt too far out, so we moved a couple of years ago down to another courtyard villa nearer to Sumter Landing, which is very central. As we are Brits we can't spend all year there, but we love it and come as often as we can.