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Originally Posted by Rainger99
How important was free golf for life when you made your decision to move to the Villages?
If they didn't have free golf - but had free walking trails - would you have moved here?
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Almost no impact. I haven't played golf in more than a dozen years, and my friends would argue I wasn't playing golf then...
Our decision was driven by the environment. I'm older than my wife, and we've moved many times over the years. Each time we moved it took a while to meet enough people to have a decent set of friends. With our respective family histories, there's no doubt I'll box/dirt knap/dirt dive well before her. On the Lifestyle visit it was very clear that if you aren't meeting people and making friends that you must be hiding. People are very friendly, very will to talk, and easy to get to know. That combined with the number of clubs/activities, getting settled into a new area was easy. Maybe it's as simple as a bunch of retired/semi-retired folks have more time and less stress making them more open to taking the time.