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Originally Posted by DaddyD
Presumably one of the main reasons people choose to live in the Villages is due to all the clubs & amenities and the "low maintenance" lifestyle. But those things aside, would you rather:
Live in a large, really nice $1 million dollar house (3 car garage, big screened in pool, custom deck & BBQ area, etc.) but on a comparably small plot of land with houses close to one another,
or
would you rather live on a large, very private piece of property with an amazing view--perhaps on a lake, river, or in the mountains--but in a perfectly livable but small and otherwise unremarkable house or doublewide mobile home?
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Tell ya what. I'll stay on my relatively smallish piece of property (1/5 acre), and you can buy me a brand new 1200-foot luxury double-wide to replace my old one, for around $125,000. With the rest of the million - $825,000 - I'll replace my golf cart with a newer model, hire someone to replace our sprinkler system since the old one's busted, get my hip replaced without having to put the insurance company's mandatory $9800 "out of pocket expense" on a credit card, go back to Connecticut for a month and spend the month visiting Boston and New York while I'm up there. Maybe take beloved spouse on a Mississippi River cruise. And still have plenty left over to live on.