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Old 12-30-2012, 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by janmcn View Post
As long as people contemplating moving to The Villages understand that to get to first class shopping you have to drive 65 miles each way. This might be different from what people are accustomed to back home.
Well, in SOMD it is a 90Min drive to a good Mall. We have plenty of strip shopping centers, when a new is built, and old one goes empty. Many stores can not compete with Big Box and INTERNET. Hardly any small speciality shops are left, they can not compete.

As for demographics, maybe a problem. I know the Television programs geared for under 50, that is why no more new shows like Diagnosis Murder, The Rogues, Murder, She Wrote, etc. We don't count anymore.