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Originally Posted by kofficer
My husband and I are just wondering what everyone plans to do when they are in their 80s, and should probably no longer drive, how are you going to get to doctors and shopping, etc. Do you plan to just slow down and putt putt in your golf cart where you want to go, or like some of the other communities we are looking at which offer regular, scheduled buses or van service to the various shopping centers and grocery stores, is there any thing like that in the Villages?
How about cab service, is that readily available?
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I, too, like to plan way ahead. Good for you! When we moved here 4 yrs ago I was 54 and my mother was 81. She preferred to let me drive because of the roundabouts; would occasionally drive to Wal-Mart or the beauty school until 2 yrs ago when she turned in front of a STREET-LEGAL
coming across 466 on Morse Blvd (she had been waiting to turn west on 466, several cars passed, she started to finish her turn and suddenly there the cart was & T-boned the passenger side..luckily no one was hurt). She turned in her keys. Now she just drives the cart to the pool. I believe there is a bus service because my neighbor down the street has Parkinson's and I saw a special bus go by every week for awhile. We have several new assisted-living places, one on 466 & one on 301 but like another poster said if you are healthy then staying here, where there are more activities, is a better idea. So I would start here and go from there. P.S. I lived in Tampa on Hillsborough Ave just north of St Joe's, where I worked from 1983-85.