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Originally Posted by davem4616
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.
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Completely agree with the writer above, no place is completely safe we all know, but on the whole fairly safe here and very very little violent crime. The "gates" here are simply an eye-catching illusion, again, attractive to perspective buyers, and often a terrible source of traffic jams during "snowbird" season (traffic can be backed onto 466 just trying to turn into the V's past the high school, can be 20 or more cars going through a "gate" one at a time), so don't take the presence of gates everywhere as any sign of "safety", believe me trucks full of questionable people come rolling in (some with no license tags) all the time by simply pushing a button. But, ultimately, just be aware of these things and know the majority of us here do feel much safer than in most nearby towns and cities. Very few major crimes here. The door to door soliciting is totally out of control, most will tell you that. You might get as many a three people a day banging on your door, no soliciting permit (which technically I don't think they need !), and asking to inspect your roof, mow your lawn, or trim your trees. Over the years this has gone from an occasional annoyance to a daily happening.