Spending four days here will help you get a lay of the land. Don’t spend too much time in your villa, get out, get a map of the villages and when we first moved here, it helped me when I realized the main roads sort of form a “rough” ladder with Morse and Buena Vista forming the sides and many other roads are the rungs of the ladder (like 466, Stillwater, Bonita Blvd, 466A, Pinellas Pl, 44, etc.).... A few things we learned after buying our first house was 1). how your lanai faced... ours faced south and was too hot to use most of the year, 2). Garage size... that’s up to your needs. Are you someone who likes to take care of their own yard or gardening? (All those tools take up precious space and of course you’re prob going to have a golf cart, so a 1 1/2 car garage will be tight if you have all those “toys” 3) do you like quiet? You might not enjoy a home on a major cut through road or your lanai backing up to a road or cart path ( but that can be somewhat tempered with shrubs. 4). Bond or no bond.... older homes are more likely to have bonds paid off, some have minimal bonds left, and new homes come with bonds which adds to your monthly expense for years. 5). Just soak it all in and see which area YOU feel works for you. The north is has more greenery and mature plants, the middle, is of course centrally located to everything, and the south will take a few years to fill in with plants and bigger trees, but is the up and coming area.... MOST OF ALL ENJOY
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