We live in a community of 100,000 people. I would guess that there are somewhere in the order of 60,000 homes. I don't know how many previously owned homes are sold each month but I don't know that it's out of line with other communities of similar size.
The other thing to be to considered is our demographic. I'm sorry to have to say this, but the mortality rate here has got to be higher than average simply because people here are going to be older than the average community in this country. I would say that a lot of homes get sold because the owners die.
I know that some competing developers have told people that for every person that moves into the Villages, three have moved out. It's hard for me to believe that some people fall for that line. I haven't done the math but I would imagine that at least 300,000 people would have had to moved in and moved out for us to have grown to 100,000 if there were any truth to that. Does anyone know of 300,000 people that have left the Villages because they were dissatisfied with life here?
__________________
The Beatlemaniacs of The Villages meet every Friday 10:00am at the O'Dell Recreation Center.
"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend." - Thomas Jefferson to William Hamilton, April 22, 1800.
|