Talk of The Villages Florida - View Single Post - Close-by poverty
View Single Post
 
Old 07-24-2014, 01:07 PM
tucson tucson is offline
Veteran member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 687
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by ROCKETMAN View Post
on one of the new executive courses there is a $750,000 house and not 50 feet away a couple houses not worth $20,000 with roofs covered with blue tarps. There are usually children playing in the backyard so i know someone liver there. Poverty is very close to the villages.
Before The Villages was built, a native, (man in the insurance business)to this area told me Sumter Co. was the poorest county in Florida.