If you take a look at a population growth chart for Wildwood, you will see incredible growth the last five years. The median age is over 58 while Ocala's median age is around 39 which tells you that many of Wildwood's residents live in TV. Around 2006, Wildwood annexed about 5000 acres of land hoping one day that TV would develop it. That is happening now. They had the foresight to do it in advance because trying to annex parts of TV that are already populated would not succeed. I applaud them for their forward thinking. No doubt it has increased their tax base considerably. As the percentage of Wildwood's residents who are Villagers continues to grow, at some point, it is likely that those Villagers in Wildwood will demand more for their tax dollars than they are getting now. I suspect that one day the city's elected officials might even be comprised of several Villagers. That might be the only way to get anything done. In fact, I bet there are several in Wildwood that are afraid of such an outcome.
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