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Old 04-04-2012, 09:01 PM
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Default Is this place for real?!

It started with an emailed youtube link from a friend about a "Precision Golf Cart Drill Team" a couple months ago... (Sent to me because my neighborhood has a Preceision Lawn Chair Drill Team that I belong to, and have marched with, in our town's 4th of July parade for the last 24 years.)

The cart video was funny but what caught my interest was this huge retirement development that had about 100 MILES of golf cart roads, tunnels and bridges. Shopping, recreation centers, entertainment, restaurants via golf carts!? Huh? The Villages? I spent 2-3 weeks every summer in Largo, FL for 10 years and hadn't heard about this place.

So after enjoying a dozen videos, reading Leisureville(!), watching The Villages DVD and, most importantly, reading this forum <THANKS!>, I have rented a house (with cart) in the village of Lynnhaven for the month of May to see and experience this place for myself!!

I sold my house in 2006 and downsized to an apartment, then retired in 2008, so if this place looks like a good fit maybe I'll make the "hop".
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