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Originally Posted by buggyone
Jimbo,
Google the crime rate for Wildwood and compare to Lady Lake and Fruitland Park. It is a lot higher.
The "gated system" is not a gated community with security guards. It is a gate that you can open with an electronic card or by pushing a large red button the gate. All the roads in The Villages are public roads and open to everyone.
I am hoping that The Villages stays such a low crime area and I am sure it will in the interior but at the edges near Wildwood, I have my serious doubts. There have already been lots of appliances taken from new construction homes that are not occupied. Some of those stolen appliances have been re-sold in the area with the serial numbers removed. One lady in The Villages bought one, it needed service, she called a repairman and he told her the serial number had been removed. She called the police and found out it was stolen. That was reported in the Daily Sun a few weeks ago. She told the police she had bought the dryer from an ad in Craigslist.
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Construction thefts are unfortunately something that happen everywhere, although we have had none in our new village, still abuilding, and village watch is up and down the streets at night a lot.
There is a lot more crime in Wildwood in comparison with TV of course, and they have moved their boundaries recently close to the perimeters of TV.
Hopefully the growth of The Villages will give jobs to the folks who live there and continue to improve the economy of Sumter county just as it has improved the town of Lady Lake.
We will see. I am not worried about the situation as it is. There is nothing right now around those perimeters and no reason to think that criminals will move onto those pasture lands.