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Originally Posted by Ruger2506
I hear ya, I see your point. Part of it is my not loving it here. Don't get me wrong. I love The Villages and the perceived lifestyle driving up the price of my Middleton home. Trust me, I'm going to be smiling all the way to the bank when I sell.
You are right. There are other places in FL. Places that are very rural and you don't have close neighbors. That is where I'm hoping to move to, if not out of FL all together. I just have to wait a few years for my boys to graduate. Them being able to ride bikes to school sure is one of the few perks I see to living this type of lifestyle in Middleton. And the school itself being so good. I can't in good conscience put my boys back in public school.
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So you or your spouse are obviously a Villages employee, or employee of a business that supports the Villages community in some way, so hopefully you or your spouse are happy with your job and it’s secure since your kids going to the charter schools are dependent on it. Personally, I don’t know why anyone with kids would buy in Middleton if they aren’t a Villages employee (or retiree), and able to send their kids to the charter schools. This major detail IMO makes the buying pool for Middleton fairly limited.
As a retiree I would only want to live in The Villages, not Middleton, because we love the amenities and golf cart lifestyle, not because we don’t want to live near kids. The lifestyle is the only reason we bought here (definitely not for the weather, lol). I have personally never seen living in the Villages as a status thing, but maybe that’s because we moved from a very upscale community in SoCal, which affects my perception of status, lol.
I would just be worried about resale in Middleton due to the restriction of being a Villages employee to attend the charter schools there, and the fact that if a parent suddenly loses their Villages employment their kids have to leave the schools. That would’ve been too stressful for me as a parent back when my three kids were in school.