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My husband and I decided to retire in the summer of 1998. We came to The Villages, after looking at all of the other retirement communities between Leesburg and Ocala, and chose our lot mid June. Two months later we were driving a Penske truck, hauling a flatbed with our car on it, heading out of Maine, south on the Maine Turnpike! To this day I am still not sure how the move happened so quickly! The Town Square at Spanish Springs wasn't completed but we thought we had died and gone to Heaven! After all, there was more there than we had seen in any other retirement community and we had looked at many. We have lived in the same villa for the entire 12+ years. To say we have been contented would be an understatement. It has been a thrill and a pleasure to watch what the developer has done here. I read all the time about folks who have just arrived here and "pinch" themselves to make sure they aren't dreaming. Guess what? I still pinch myself sometimes, for even after so many years of living here, this lifestyle seems unimaginable, incomprehensible and truly magical. I simply cannot imagine a better place to spend these years, when we get to be kids all over again! "Tag", you're it!