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Originally Posted by Michael 61
It’s possible to get the impression from certain posts on TOTV that some people are less than happy and content to be living in TV. Though no community is “perfect”, The Villages is a one-of-a-kind community beyond compare in my opinion. I feel so fortunate and blessed first of all to been able to have retired early in life, and secondly to be able to reside in such a beautiful and vibrant community, with mostly highly positive residents and neighbors. For me, it only take one trip outside “the bubble” to realize how special TV is.
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I bought in the then “new” area of DeSoto ~6 years ago… I was a bit apprehensive about buying in a “retirement” community, both from my personal experience having lived for many years in S. FL and exposed to the many variants of retirement communities down there as well as having read the Andrew Biechman book “Leisureville: Adventures in a World Without Children” as part of my research/thought process. (The latter has not aged well, imo!)
Also, back of mind were the lingering images of my own mother’s aging in place back in PA and I just felt that there had to be a better answer… during covid I WFH as I finished out my career and have now made the transition to retirement and living in the villages. I love it here… I love my village, my house, my neighbors are great, my life is great. My one regret is if I could do it all again I would have bought years ago so that my Mom could have spent some time down here in her latter years!
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