Yeah that's confusing to me too. As someone who doesn't live there yet, I consider it a master-planned active retirement community, not a gated community. Technically, it isn't even a retirement community, since many residents work. It isn't -really- even a senior community, because there are sections reserved for employees and their minor children to live.
It's a community that has gates, but it is not a gated community. My mom's development is gated - you cannot enter without having either a bar-code sticker on your window, or the guard at the gate verifying your authorization to be there.
My grandmother lived in Century Village - THAT is a gated community. A gated community means something specific, and The Villages doesn't meet that criteria.
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