I wonder if Spruce Creek has Dell Webb haters.
We've been attempting to find a reasonably priced villa to rent out lately, and when we got priced out of the Villages, we started looking in Spruce Creek -- which reminded me why we bought our retirement home in the Villages.
The golf course there was empty and the greens had brown patches and bare spots that I could see from the road. Here, people complain when they can't get a morning tee time in the off season, and if it quits raining for a month they complain about brown patches in the fairways. We even have people sneaking on to play golf when the course is closed!
There, the sole community center was a ghost town. Here, the paper's weekly publication of the activities in all dozens of community centers is bigger than the Sports or Living sections. And get this -- we even have our own paper!
Here in the summer heat, golf carts are zooming around everywhere, and everyone I meet on my morning walk waves and gives me a "good morning!". There, they have big lawns with fences, but you'd have to bang on some doors to discover if anyone lives in those little painfully-identical houses. You certainly don't see them on the streets.
I live in a 20-year-old "village", that I'm sure "the developer" could care less about. The streets are still beautiful, the flowers still blooming, the lawns still manicured, the pools full of people, the public places still look like they were built yesterday. In Spruce Creek the only flowers I saw were next to someone's front porch.
How do you know you're in a great place to live? Complainers!
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