[graciegirl]

Our amenity fee is about $135 per month.. We pay the family rate for the cart fees yearly, about $145 so that means when I go out on the executive courses (32) to play four times a week they don't charge me ANYTHING. I also go to Laurel Manor and paint and draw, I go to the pool almost daily for nothing. I go to Bingo at the rec centers that costs me a couple of bucks and they give back the take and also give you a bodacious ice cream sundae in the middle, I go to Bocce and Sweetie plays pickleball and I could play Bunko, Bridge, pool, shuffleboard, horseshoes, and a number of other card and board games for free, seven days a week. I can go to free seminars on Florida plants, lightning, and other interesting stuff. I can drive around in my Ohio State themed golf cart and look at the beautifully maintained areas and the beautifully maintained people.

I can attend any of the over 1000 special interest clubs in the many beautifully decorated recreation centers and go to water aerobics at the regional pools. I can go to any number of dance lessons, tap, ballet, jazz, modern, clogging, ballet barre, line dancing for NOTHING. I can join the villages workshop and learn how to frame my canvases after they teach me how to run all of their equipment safely. I can walk off the pounds, I can zumba, I can yoga and I can walk over miles and miles and miles of streets that are lined with beautiful homes.

OR I can live in a lot of areas of Florida that have NO amenity fees. It is my choice...and if I ever decide and it isn't for me, the houses aren't hard to sell.