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Originally Posted by huge-pigeons
Just the opposite, so much better living south of 44 for many many reasons. Since you are in your 50’s, you will find more people in your age range south of 44 than the other areas combined. Somebody did some statistics on this over a year ago.
Why would you want to move to the north where the houses are old, outdated, no natural gas, horrendous traffic, just to move to shopping? How often are you going to Best Buy or target? Once every 6 months? 441 has been a terrible area to drive thru for years now.
I know people that have moved to an established area and were treated like outcasts because of existing clicks that have been established. They moved to a brand new area where everybody else was looking for friends and had no existing groups.
Where we live, we have around 50-60 pickleball courts in a couple mile radius, where we play 95% of the time. We belong to many different pb groups, card groups, and other sport groups down south of 44. Now with Bexley bridge open and golf cart paths open to go to any of the southern golf courses in a few minutes, along with TV building 5 or 6 more golf courses down there, the need to go up north is waning
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I am 58 and live in the far north (Woodbury). I have natural gas. I don't at all feel like an outcast in my neighborhood (although I am younger than most here). Within a couple weeks of moving here I got invited to coffee with a some of the neighbors and everybody I've met so far has been super friendly. Maybe I got lucky.
The houses are older up here but mine was built in 2002. The only people I've ever heard who think that's "old" for a house are people from The villages. It's actually the newest house I've ever owned. My pervious houses were built in the 1930s, 1917, and 1986 respectively.
As for traffic, I find traffic gets worse as you go south of me. North of 466 it's nothing. Hwy 441 has its busy times but it's nothing like Orlando or other major metropolitan/suburban areas. After 7 PM it's practically empty. It's only bad down by Leesburg because of all the construction. That said, all the stores are north of that anyway.
I guess it's all a matter of preference but I much prefer it north of 466. Less traffic, a ton of mature oak trees that shade the multimodal paths, fewer airbnb's and rentals (from what I understand), and it is much quieter up here.
Opinions on this are gonna be all over the map. There are just way too many variables at play.