[dadspet]

Your buying into a lifestyle in TV that is hard to beat. We looked at several other Over 55 communities that claimed to have everything but when we rode around and looked for real activity it was hard to find. After 4 yrs of thinking about it we finally bought this year (Wish we did it 4 yrs ago) . It wasn't because of the great price on the house we bought (but it wasn't at all bad - especially compared to many areas of Fl) - it was because of the "The Villages" and the life style. The Villages is so clean, beautiful, well planned and thought out in almost every aspect its hard to explain to someone. A real plus is that its very reasonable to live here with the free golf, tennis, happy hours each night in the Squares and entertainment, Katty Bells, nice and reasonable resteraunts etc. The size of the Villages might scare some, but again the ability to share in any of the activities within any village was a plus for us and its so well planned its size is not at all a issue, we think its a plus. The activity fee isn't bad for what you get. I think you need to like an active lifestyle, but you may not have one were you currently live and find getting to have fun is easy to do at the Villages. It doesn't matter if you have a $100 manufactured home or a multi million dollar home you have access to all the same beautiful, well kept facilities. The original areas of the Villages are as well kept as the new location. As it grows almost every kind of store is around it now and you can access most by Golf cart. . We describe it as a Adult Disney land to our friends!