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Originally Posted by manaboutown
My brother in 2016 bought a home in a Robson development, The Preserve at Saddlebrooke. It is only worth about 50% more than what he paid for it after over seven years. I visited him a couple times and found it remote, a long drive from just about everything. They only had one clubhouse and restaurant. Only one golf course I believe. Anyway it was not for me. I much prefer The Villages.
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I was blissfully unaware of TV, thinking that my home here in Rio Verde was the most beautiful place on earth. Then I saw a video on YouTube entitled “The Most Infamous Retirement Community” and I got excited. Then I saw more videos, like ones by Skip and Sue, The Newcomers, and others. Then my husband went with me to TV in July and we both fell in love with the landscaping, how clean it was, the birds and the manatees. He wasn’t convinced he would like it, because of the number of people, but everything else he loved. Now both of us are chomping at the bit to move.
This is a very small community compared with TV, and as a result, especially in the summertime, there’s nothing to do here if you don’t golf. There’s a county park close by so my husband could go and ride his bike or hike but that’s all we do. It’s amazing to me that you can take your golf cart to get your nails done, go to the doctor, go to so many restaurants, shopping, we even to a hardware store when we were out there!
Now if the snowbirds will just buy my home!