We don’t play golf at all but feel the amenities fee is money well spent for all The Villages has to offer. We ride our bikes daily and never fail to feel thankful that we have miles and miles of safe paths to ride on. We attend a “free” yoga class every week. I used to pay some hefty fees for yoga. How about jumping into your cart on a boring evening and having some fun entertainment, for “free.” A nice day by the pool, a pool I don’t have to maintain. And all of the maintenance that goes into keeping TV so beautiful so that our property values are protected.
Before coming here we lived in a planned community in Venice, FL. We had one pool, a fitness center and a clubhouse. One. An “event” usually consisted of people getting together in the clubhouse parking lot with a food truck. No golf course. Our HOA was $359 a month. We felt lucky. We had neighbors in other communities that were paying upward of $500 a month and didn’t have much more.
We live like “rich folks” here, and we are far from rich. I never in a million years thought we would have such an amazing life in retirement. So glad to have found TV.
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