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Originally Posted by elizabeth52
I really respect everyone on this forum. And it has been my dream to live here. But I do not understand why everyone keeps saying that sinkholes are rare in the Villages. Maybe these catastrophic types are rare, I agree, but are you saying that sinkhole activity has not affected many homes in the Villages, just like in other parts of Florida? Even the Villages sales rep admits to this lesser form of activity. To say that this is rare is misleading.
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I am not trying to mislead you, only calm you. We bought our first home here in 2006, I think that year there was a sinkhole in or under a major pond near the hospital and it drained out in a very short time. In my memory there has been a sinkhole , of significant size to know about, either reported in the Sun or here on this forum about once a year. There have been sinkholes that I recall at Sunset Point, St.James, and twice in the middle of streets. There have been smaller holes, quickly filled and not much talked about. I don't know what the definition of rare would be, but once or twice a year among 40,000 homes? Once or twice a year in a roughly 100 square mile area?
People who sell houses aren't going to sit down and say, Hey, you might want to know that we have had eight homes burn to the ground here in the last seven years from direct lightening strikes because this IS the lightening capital of the country.. We have had a direct hit from a tornado that completely wiped out Mallory Country Club and several homes and killed several people in nearby Lady Lake. We have had 13 people die in the last four years from golf cart accidents. We haven't got the best medical facilties here for every condition. You can buy homes bigger and cheaper outside of The Villages. THEY ARE BOUND by law to disclose sinkhole activity on any property but they don't have to tell you that there are sinkholes here in The Villages.
Most of us are worried and scared to some degree too. I think that the sinkhole near Tampa last year that swallowed a man in his bed while he slept and his body was never recovered is still in our vivid memory.
But as for living here in The Villages, as someone else so succinctly posted. It is a choice. You can pass or you can play.