[Shirleevee]

Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr

This original post is over two years old. I was shocked to read it. Like many others, I have no mortgage but that would be the same no matter where I am and would be the same if I had a mortgage. I find this to be on of the least expensive places that I've ever lived other than a third world country in Asia.

I don't understand the golf fee of $150 a month. I no longer play golf, buy I know that you can play the par three courses for no additional cost unless you wan to ride then you pay a modest trail fee. Even at that, $1800 a year is not a lot of money for golf. Where I cam from the dues at many private clubs exceeded $5000.

I pay a little over $100 for both internet and cable television. The same as it was in Massachusetts. Yes, most of us pay a trash fee but I don't know of anyone who doesn't use it. I can't imagine how someone could not use it. My trash fee is $51.00 per quarter nowhere near $55 a month. My trash collection fee up north was about $80 per quarter.

The thing is that here in the Villages you can buy a home for as little at $50,000. While that may be an exception, there are plenty of manufactured homes under $100,000 and plenty of villas and ranch home under $150,000. So eve if you have to have a small mortgage it will be lower here then anywhere else.

My electric bill is much less here than it was up north and that's with air conditioning and charging the golf cart. Speaking of which, we use about one tankful of gas per month in the car by using the golf cart for almost every trip we make inside the Villages. In fact we're considering buying another cart so I don't have to use the car when my wife takes the golf cart.

Another thing is that we don't have to pay for heat here. Up north had our natural gas budgeted and we paid about $300 a month. That did include the stove and clothes dryer as well as heat in the winter, but that's a bill that we don't have here at all.

In addition to how cheap it is to live here, we pay $140 a month and have tons of clubs, pools and other forms of recreation and entertainment to keep us busy. If we had to pay for all that we could never afford it.

I don't know what all the fees are that the OP is talking about. I moved here because it is so inexpensive and I can have a much better lifestyle here than anywhere else that I know of.

AMEN! I
agree!