Noise levels have increased over the past few years to a much higher level. We have been here for close to nine years and the quality of life has been impacted by the large increase in traffic, construction, and lawn mowing services. I moved from the woods of New Hampshire to Danville, California in 1987 and the noise level was oppressive out there. You could hear the highway at all times of day and the lawn workers with their blowers really reduced the quality of life in this very upscale area. When I returned to NH in 1989 I made sure I couldn’t hear a highway where I wanted to move to and I drove by the prospective new home at all times of day and night to make sure it was quiet. Moving to the Villages you think it is going to be laid back and sedate, but as your area gets built up the noise level definitely increases. It has gotten more stressful to live here, in my opinion, as more and more people move here. The new roads, new stores, new apartments are, of course, necessary for a fast growing population, but it was not what I expected nor what I thought I had signed up for. (I moved into the famous, final build out area ) Yes, I could move, but I love the clubs, the people, and many other features of The Villages and as we all know you can never duplicate what we have here anywhere else, but it is getting noisier, no doubt.
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