I was also very torn over these two choices. I grew up in a beach town and love the beach. One of my two complaints about The Villages is that it is so far from a good beach. The other is that it is so far from a major highway.
I think that I ended up here #1 because I could afford it. If I was going to live near a beach, it would be on the Gulf and preferably Clearwater, or Naples. But real estate there is so much more and insurance is outrageous because of potential hurricane damage.
In retrospect, it's been a great move. Although I do miss being able to go to the beach as much as I would have liked, there is so much to do here that it makes up for it. I can drive to Clearwater Beach a few times a year and get my fix. I don't know what I'd be doing with myself every day if I lived there however.
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