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Old 08-23-2020, 11:36 AM
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Default It’s complicated

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Originally Posted by graciegirl View Post
When this Pandemic is over please sign up for the presentation that The Villages gives monthly about how this place is run. Several new posters are like a lot of new people who move here or think to move here including me. I thought that The Villages was too good to be true.

I thought for sure that someone was trying to pull the wool over our eyes when I first visited here and saw how amazing this place appeared to be. I thought for sure there was a "catch".

Now I have to suffer when I read new people who are thinking they are getting taken some way, some how and other new people who want to change and improve. It helps if new people can go to learn how The Villages works. Offered monthly and nothing at all to do with selling houses.

Every happy Villager sells this place. I am very happy and proud to live here. There isn't any scheme or catch. The developers already have much more than enough money for a very long time. I think they continue to do it because they too have a dream and their dream supports thousands of peoples jobs.
A very good post and the District meeting you speak of is an excellent start to begin to understand a Community Development District. In short, it’s unlike any form of Government that most of us have been use to. It is different and a bit complicated. And in the words of that great philosopher Forrest Gump, “I think that’s all I’ve got to say about that.” My hats off to those residents who serve the residents of The Villages in various leadership roles in the Districts. It’s pretty much a thankless job...
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