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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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Well, I lived in a little house on a lake for years. It was beautiful there. I loved it. I could lie in bed and watch cardinals and four kinds of woodpeckers at a feeder ten feet from my head. I love living in a really lovely place with no neighbors. My ex-wife’s grandmother lived in a crummy little single-wide trailer in a mobile home park. But the mobile home park was on a cliff a mile south of Laguna Beach, and the porch on the trailer actually overhang the cliff, on a cove, a hundred feet above the water. Spectacular view, awful trailer. But worth it. I grew up in the mountains of Northern California surrounded by miles of pines and firs and golden grass. It looked a lot like Walt Longmire’s view at his cabin in “Longmire.”
I moved here for the activities, and it’s been even better than I’d hoped, although different from what I expected. My Courtyard Villa cost far less than a million, and it’s not luxurious compared to some homes here, but it’s also much more private than most of the fancier homes my friends have. I hardly hear a sound all day and hardly see a soul. It’s just as quiet as my ex-home on a lake, but so much closer to things I love to do. I’m a frog—here ‘til I croak. I made a great choice.