I grew up in South/Central NJ which is a haven and final resting place for every senior citizen in the NJ/NY area to spend his or her final days. Or so it seemed to me when I was growing up. You can't drive a quarter mile without finding an adult community. I knew I never wanted to live in ONE OF THOSE. And besides, I have dogs and need a fence and no adult community I ever heard of had fenced yards for your dogs and they have dog size restrictions. Then 2 of my friends bought in TV and kept telling me how great it was and that I should look at the website. I resisted for years! Finally in a weak moment I did look at the website and found it was true, the CYV do have fences and it does NOT look anything like the 'old folks neighborhoods' from back home. I decided to check into it further. I was totally into all the clubs and activities and it didn't seem like a place to grow old and hide until you died of old age. This might be different than what I thought. It took a year of research but we scheduled a visit. We were hooked immediately. It was like Stepford, all happy people walking around with these grins on their faces ALL the time. We talked to so many random people and no one had anything negative to say. We spent the whole LSV looking at homes and before we knew it, we bought our home. Whirlwind experience with no time to look back or be afraid.
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