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Originally Posted by graciegirl

Be prepared to fall in love.

Do you remember the Wizard of Oz, the movie? The first part of the movie was all in black and white, the storm, the witch, the aunt and uncle?

Then Dorothy steps into OZ....and the color comes on, the lights go up, the music swells and the tingling begins.

That is how The Villages are...you drive from rural Florida, from patchy prettiness and patchy not so niceness to bah-boom.........miles and miles of cut lawn and trimmed bushes, placed in color and shape harmony with each other, ...and thousands and thousand of well kept homes so similar you can easily get lost. And lovely mature people, riding their bikes or in one of the 50 thousand or more golf carts, or running along the paths.

There are three town units, each more beautiful than the last and dropped from a magical and fictional past with more than Disney cleverness.

The best village is the one that belongs to the person you ask and they are telling the truth. Except mine is really the best and so is Hadley where we had our first house here. BUT my dear friends all live in the best village too.

You will find grown up people of about your age living in all of them and growing younger every day. They belong to some of over two thousand clubs, one of the best being THE CINCINNATI CLUB. People talk funny here and it takes a bit to figure it all out. I heard someone order Kawfee at Panera's and my treasured friend MaryB pahks her cah.

The folks from the coast think they are smarter than the ones from the middle, but they are wrong, and there are healthy debates about that and almost every subject because we are all old enough to be damn sure about what we think.

AND we are aware that the years behind us are greater than the years ahead of us, and most of us are treasuring and enjoying every wonderful day in this lower Paradise.

Hurry.....and Welcome HOME.

No. I don't work for the developer. I LOVE THE VILLAGES.

Bravo, GG. Excellent post on describing it here. As I've said many times before, IN-FREAKING-CREDIBLE here!!