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Originally Posted by maryanna630
We lived in The Villages for 3 years in Lake Deaton. In 2018 we moved to The Villages of Citrus Hills near Crystal River. We built a custom home here. We really like it here....our home is maintenance free on the exterior including grass, irrigation and landscaping, we have 4 gyms, a state of the art spa, three restaurants, 2 activity centers, 3 swimming pools including an olympic indoor one. There are 3 golf courses and a beautiful, har tru tennis center. The surrounding area is just beautiful and the gulf of mexico is 7 miles away. We are at the highest point in florida so very little hurricane risk. We have many small chef owned restaurants, many activities and a really nice sized footprint wher we get to know many interesting people. It is affordable and lovely. We are very happy here.
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To be more specific, you built a home in Terra Vista, a spectacular gated community. Good friends of ours have just contracted to build a large home there and will be selling their premier home in Lake Deaton later this year. We almost did the same but have opted to leave the villages and build a custom home in Harbor Hills because we still have all of the amenities that the village area has to offer. We will remain close to our friends, our doctors, and have access to all of the restaurants and services. For us, the villages just became too crowded. For me, the notion of having to decide five days out whether I wanted to play golf with a large group was not something I enjoyed. I play the championship courses and do not have any interest in the social golfing of the executive courses. So for us, while the villages has been most pleasant, it’s novelty wore off and it was time to go.
For those unfamiliar with Harbor Hills, it is a truly gated community just six minutes from the new Wawa on 441. It was started some 20 years ago and still has a few houses left to be built out.