I've lived here for almost 7 years in the Village of Tamarind Grove. That is located 3-1/2 miles from both Brownwood Square and LSL Square. The squares are where you'll hear music every night, see a movie, both of those squares have 8 screen theaters, and they have restaurants. Brownwood also has MVP Health Club, it's a fancy gym, it's nice.
If I were buying I would chose Villages in my general area but expand a bit, Pinellas, Gilchrist and Sanibel on the southside of 466A and St. James, Duval, Hemingway and St. Charles on the north side of 466A. Those villages are located similar to ours in the distance to the squares, however they have easier access to Buena Vista. Why is that important, because if you travel by golf cart, Buena Vista is a main road and carts have their own road, what's called a MMP. You are separated from vehicle traffic until you get to a couple of blocks from your home.
As a golfer, you would be no more than a 15 minute golf cart ride to Havana, Cane Garden, Mallory, Arnold Palmer, Evans Prairie, Bonifay and Belle Glade, that's seven country club championship 27 hole layouts. Executive courses you would probably have 15 to 20 within that radius.
The two bowling alleys are about 20 minutes away in Spanish Springs square area. If you get into softball, you would be squarely in the middle of the three balls parks. Buffalo Glen and Saddle Brook are about 15 minutes north and Soaring Eagle is about ten minutes south by Rohan Rec Center.
If you're getting a dog a CYV (courtyard villa) would offer a privacy fenced yard. The main negative would be if you decided to have two cars, most CYV's are 1-1/2 car garages. We live in a CYV, our street has 13 units and 10 are full time. I think the rental market and snow bird lifestyle is more popular in the patio villa community because they have smaller yards with less maintenance and lower sales prices, generally under $200K.
Buying in Fenney would offer the opportunity to own a brand new home, new construction is coming to an end north of 44. However, living in Fenney only has 2 executive golf courses at this time, no championship. You might be waiting for a while to play a lot of different courses unless you like to drive your car to the golf course and your automatically 5 miles from the southern boundary of The Villages. From my house and the location I described in the first paragraph, Fenney is 14 miles away. In the future, Fenney will still be there and there is always resales if you want to go that route. For the immediate future I would consider the area in the established Villages that I listed above.
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