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Originally Posted by youngvillagertobe
I am a 24 year old man, single, no kids, work from home and am looking to buy my first house. I would love to live in the Villages and know about the 80/20 rule when it comes to 55+ communities. I am quiet, and old soul, respectful of others and always maintain a clean living space/ yard. What would be the honest reaction to having a young person live next door?
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My husband and I bought a new home in the Villages of Chatham back in 2002. What a WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE it was back then. He was 60 and I was 51. To be honest I felt to young to live there. Although it was so nice and all our neighbors were wonderful I felt out of place. They were mostly in there 70’s and older. We were there 6 months out of the year and when we left for back home it felt like I was back where I should be. Truthfully it does age you because you skip over the years you should be enjoying your youth with people your own age. Now that we are older we have considered rebuying another home there but because it seems like it is changing from an elderly community to something else we’d rather just come visit for a few months and leave. If we choose to buy a condo in a place where all the other owners were in their twenties it would not be good for us nor the younger folks. The Villages had it’s draw BECAUSE it was a place where retiree’s of 55 and older could buy. Things are now very different. We think that allowing 20something year olds in is going to eventually ruin what Mr Swartz had intended it to be. It sure WAS a pleasant place to live when we were there.