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Originally Posted by Danenew20242
Hello,
I am in California and just retired. I have found this unique place called "The Villages", so it sounds and looks very interesting, but I need your knowledge!
Is it really cheaper to live in The Villages or Fl in general? From the little I have been able to glean, there seems to be really no great monetary advantage, so why move there?
Thank you so very much for your time/efforts/comments and advice!!!!!
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As a boy, I lived in the mountains above St. Helena, California for five years. I loved it. I lived in beautiful towns half an hour from Riverside, in Southern California, for four more years in my late twenties and visited several weeks a year for decades. There’s so much to like about California, though it was much better in some ways in the sixties, with half the population. But the modest homes I lived in then now cost way more than my beautiful paid off courtyard villa in The Villages. I can’t afford this nice a home or this level of beauty in California. Plus, taxes are very high in California, gas is far more expensive, there are too many homeless people, the chance of losing my home to wildfire or flood or drought scares me. The big thing for me is that there are so many things to do here that I couldn’t do anywhere I lived in California. I know from experience that I would be much lonelier there.