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Originally Posted by vintageogauge
Those established area homes are pushing 20 years old now, and not so "prime" in condition. Some may prefer living in the old sections but many are choosing the new areas with new amenities only available south of 44. Take a look at today's Daily Sun to see all of the new stuff going on from championship golf to open air indoor market shopping to restaurants and entertainment, lots happening in the south, noting new in the established areas.
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I have to laugh when people think a twenty year old house is past its prime. That is true for mobile homes, but not for our homes. I lived for some years in a 200 year old log cabin. My girlfriend in New Jersey lives in a 300 year old house. That’s old. My home here in The Villages is twenty-two years old, and it is beautiful. It has a new roof with architectural shingles and a new HVAC system and new appliances, and the bond is paid. Those are all things I wanted in a home, and I found them. The taxes and insurance are reasonable. The house is flawless.
Most days I take a two mile walk to the mailbox and back. I enjoy the lovely houses with their mature landscaping and big trees. I enjoy noticing the various flowers that come into bloom. New neighborhoods don’t always have that sort of landscaping or trees. Someday they will, but not yet. I want to enjoy those things now, all over my village, and I don’t want to pay an extra $10,000 to have a landscaper put it in.
One of the nice things about all the new houses going up down south is that a number of people in ten or twenty year old houses move and leave behind wonderful houses for the rest of us. The Villages would be somewhat different if there were no new houses going up.
Some of you who have moved half a dozen times in twenty years to have a new house remind me of the pioneers of past centuries who would head west again because there were neighbors moving in just ten miles away. (Laughing.) Takes all types.