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Originally Posted by cwnavy1
We made a brief visit to TV in October and have a six-day visit the end of December, and will be seriously looking at homes. There have been discussions which have indicated that the newer villages would probably have many folks who may be younger than in the older sections. As first wave boomers, we are interested in this situation, if it's true. Any thoughts, guidance, suggestions?
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This is my thinking on your question with absolutely NO statistical evidence to support it
. I think new areas are in general 'younger'
ONLY as measured by the calendar for a period of time.
As an example, we bought in Mallory about 3 years ago. All of the houses here were new at the time, so you have 50 - 75 (I did not count) new buyers coming into the area all at once. After meeting the neighbors at golf, garage parties, etc. I have not met many that came from another neighborhood. This was their first home in TV and for most their first retirement home.
That said there is a wide range of age groups in our neighborhood, depending when folks find TV and decide to retire, but I suspect
this is the youngest our neighborhood will ever be.
It makes sense to me that newer areas would on average be younger as it is being filled with new buyers all at once. After that initial filling of the area, I bet that neighborhoods age together for some period of time.
Most of us are very happy here so our neighborhood is 3 years older already. In 10 years it would seem to me our mean age would be higher than it was when we bought and higher than new areas being built down south.
Even if my silly hypothesis is correct, I would absolutely NOT make that the reason you select an area to buy. TV is a young place and you will likely fit in anywhere. Stay here a bit, you will understand what I mean by young. Then you will also understand more important buying criteria like how often
you wish to drop into town square, different country clubs, etc, etc, etc.
Hopefully I have skirted any offensive remarks as none were intended.