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Originally Posted by ldovermiller
If you want to feel safe, don't count on Community Watch, they do patrol the community at high speeds, do NO due diligence in looking for problems, eyes ahead or on the phone...more concerned with coffee breaks. The Sumter sheriff DOES NOT give speeding tickets, just warnings!! I and others do not feel safe. They give a false picture of safety.
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I disagree with the above statement
The Villages is one of the safest places to live anywhere in the USA. Very little crime, no earthquakes, no raging forest fires, no flooding...you will have the occasional hurricane...but these houses are build to hurricane standards for this part of Florida. Oddly this part of Florida is referred to as 'the lightening capital of the world'....a very, very small number of homes have installed lightening rods...I don't recall hearing of any homes being struck by lightening in the 4 years that we've been here.
There's the occasional ne'er-do-well adult child that moves back in with their aging parents that might cause a little domestic trouble, but that's soon put to rest....other than that, the only slight risk we see is getting hit by some oldster that shouldn't be driving a vehicle anyway (the major roads all have sidewalks...neighborhood roads do not).
We live on a Cul-de-sac...everybody knows one another and we check in on each other's home whenever someone is away (that isn't universal in TV)...in addition, our expanded neighborhood of 60+ homes formed an Emergency AED Response Team...many of us are training in CPR and the use of an AED unit...in the event of a 911 cardiac arrest call made from any of those 60+ homes our responders will automatically be informed and we'll arrive on scene and begin chest compressions in those crucial minutes before the EMT's can get there. There are 227 other AED teams...and another 28 are forming.
When we previously lived in Ft Lauderdale, we often felt that our upscale area was a target....we just don't have that sense in TV.