We checked out a number of 55+ communities along the coast from Pompano Beach up to West Palm when we decided to leave Ft Lauderdale...all were very nice, but not for us.
The Jimmy Buffet themed development "Latitudes" over by Daytona was still a concept at the time....I had heard mixed reviews about Del Webb communities, but we had never visited any because we were looking for something near the ocean....we came to visit a cousin in The Villages for a long weekend and put money down before we left. We knew what we were looking for and TV had most of it.
No place is ever going to have everything thing you want. For us, moving to a newly developed area worked...we are on a Cul de sac...we all came in together and have bonded...we do things with our neighbors
We visited "Latitudes" a year ago just to see how it was....very nice, it will only have 2500 homes, they have one of everything that we have in TV (except no golf on the property or polo) and they have a property on the beach that you will be bused to. The entertainment and the grounds in the Villages just can't be beat IMHO
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