[LittleDog]

In my own opinion I would recommend that you purchase a pre-owned home for various reasons. If I had to do it over again that's what I would do. The reasons being that you can pick a location that is more central than where the new homes are being built, probably you won't have a bond to pay off, and the home probably has improvements already built in (hopefully you would like them).

There have been other discussions along these lines where people are saying that when you move into an established neighborhood friendships have already been made. However, from my experience most of our friends are members of various groups we participate in and do not live in our neighborhood. Yes, we do know the people on our block (a cul de sac) but we normally don't socialize with them except for a monthly luncheon that my wife attends.

Personally I wouldn't want to live in the north end of the Villages nor in the south end. Central is better.

These are just my opinions so just wanted to throw them out.

John