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Originally Posted by boobear51751
I agree it is very expensive and the tax on our little slice and I mean little slice of paradise is in line with San Francisco if you figure the square foot of your lot. Now with that said golfing is only as expensive as you make it. You don't have to pay trails fees if you don't want to. Use a pull cart and walk on the executive courses. It is freel. The trash is another story too. Where else in the US do they charge you to pick up recyled items that the town will be paid for when they sell the trash? That is a tax that The Villages mandated a few years back. Before that we had no recyling here in The Villages other than Silver Lake area where Lady Lake does it for them. The federal government (not just the president) is to blame for letting Progresss Energy raise their rates where you can't seem to get a hold of them. But people are not in an uproar over the cost of their electric so they can get away with it.
So yes it is expense to live here and you are very young to be here as well. With working, as you should be at 51, you don't have a lot of time to enjoy some of the activites. Hang in there it will only get worse. I feel your pain and I am not 51.
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With all due respect the cost of living in San Francisco is waaaay higher than TV. According to the CNN cost of living calculator a person making $37,000 a year in Orlando would have to make $60,000 a year in San Francisco to come out even. I have lived in the midsection of America my whole life and the cost of living here is about the lowest in the country, yet my calculations lead me to beleive that TV would be about the same for us. According to the CNN calculator you would have to make $63,000 in Orlando to equal $60,000 in St. Joseph, Mo, near where I live. Now I realize that Orlando is not TV, but most costs would be comparable IMO.