[The Great Fumar]

Dear Bored (nonie)

there are approx, 74,000 residents here , The Villages has no way of knowing how many are snow birds are here or an accurate numbers of renters as 2/3 of the renters are renting from private owners.....Any numbers given are pure speculation...........Even Gary Morse can't give you an accurate breakdown ............
However if I had to guess , I would say that only 5% of residents are renters...............
Now speaking of speculation , This Disneyland for seniors is limited in size and there is an end to it .....When it is sold out , the price of homes here will go right through the sky...The sales right now are short lived and when the housing market turns around (which is believed to be mid-year) You won't see deals like this again .............
Now you ask, why would I pay 50,000 more for the same style house in The Villages than in another community close by....
Well let tell you what we and our neighbors did today , First We had to decide which of the some 40 golf courses we wanted to play. We chose TRUMAN which is a new course on the south border of The Villages.....After a gorgeous drive in our electric golf carts thought the very picturesque landscapes of golf courses , tennis courts , swimming pools, rec. centers with their botche courts and riding and walking trails and multitudes of beautiful homes we arrived at out chosen course and played an extremely difficult course where you had to hit over valleys and ponds and strategically located traps to greens on hill tops that if you couldn't spin the ball it would never stay on the green, All this in a 15 knot wind .....Did we shoot well ???
NO!! But did we have fun trying , YOU BET!!!! We then had to decide where we would have a late lunch....How about HAVANA COUNTRY CLUB ??? we were close and we haven't eaten there yet so lets try it ......It was wonderful ,I had a glass of beer and a grouper sandwich with sweetpotato fries....the fish was so large they couldn't get all of it on the bun......We ate our lunch and lied to each other about if it hadn't been so windy we would have killed that golf course . ha ha .....We bid farewell to Havana Country club (which we belong too because as a resident we are members of all the country clubs) and headed home to the north end of The Villages where we all live.....And You Know what ?????? WE CAN DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN TOMORROW !!!!!

Where else in the world can you do all this for 8.00 bucks ( the price of the sandwich ) .....

If only it hadn't been so windy- fumar...........