You have my sympathy with the Minneapolis weather. My husband and I came to The Villages in January this year in the midst of a particularly brutal Chicago winter. There were three mornings when (with the wind chill factor) it was 65 degrees below zero! Fall and winter have always been my favorite seasons but those cold mornings did us both in and had us both crying UNCLE. As soon as we could find an available rental and a few days where the weather was relatively clear from Illinois to Florida, we came to The Villages for a week. We stayed in a lovely villa and after our time here we knew that The Villages was the place for us. We are snowbirds, like so many, and plan to spend about six months in each place for the time being. We ended up buying a new unfurnished villa and absolutely LOVE it and our location. We opted not to rent it out because we wanted to be sure our villa and our furnishings would look just like we left them when we came back. Whether you rent or keep your home just for yourselves, you will love it here. Just hang in there and look forward to the time when you can escape the awful cold. (I agree with the expenses/costs everyone has mentioned.) Good luck!
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