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Originally Posted by graciegirl
Many Villagers have played all of their lives and many are just now beginning to play. For me, I have played golf for 47 years and paid much more for it than here.
I think the biggest "draw" here is the beautifully maintained "feel" to this very large place. I sometimes think as I drive along in the golf cart that the Astors and The Vanderbilts and the Rockefellers didn't live as well.
We have not acres, but miles of flowers and trimmed bushes and green lawns and whimsical squares and people who have lived long enough to appreciate the joy of leisure and the opportunities to explore and enjoy what they didn't have time for before. I have NEVER once run into anyone who in answer to the question, "What made you choose The Villages?" said
THE FREE STUFF.
We are mostly hard working, law abiding people who have good taste and have carefully planned and diligently saved and sacrificed to live well in these later years. WE ARE NOT POOR in spirit or in character or in fact. We are careful and independent and fiercly proud and one of our collective horrors would to be to accept "free stuff" as a matter of daily living.
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Again.....what she said. Well said my friend.