Do you think..... [Archive] - Talk of The Villages Florida

wlou

08-13-2010, 02:34 PM

that a larger majority of the new villagers are younger? We noticed on our last visit that there seemed to be quite a few younger folks purchasing new homes. ( We are on the younger end and we are still PT as our house in VA has not sold yet, ..)We were waiting for our new ID's and started chatting with a few couples there, and in the square , that looked younger than when we first bought 3 years ago.. I heard a rumor that the new median age buying now is in the low 60's , Anyone heard that or seem to notice that? Being PT, it is hard for us to gauge any info ...Thoughts, comments???

swrinfla

08-13-2010, 03:18 PM

Interesting observation! My sometimes reliable gut tells me that most new folks ARE younger. Boomers are really beginning to hang it up, even though they are pretty young!

Of course, every day it seems to me that everybody is younger than me, even when my brothers are 8 and 10 years older! Have you seen some of the kids wandering around posing as doctors, recently! :D

My youngest has her 46th tomorrow; her husband is almost eligible for AARP! Used to think that was OLD, didn't you?

SWR
:beer3:

skip0358

08-13-2010, 03:33 PM

I agree that there are a lot of younger people moving to TV. I myself was only 60 wife was younger. Many companies are down sizing or offering early outs. If you come from an expensive area it's much easier to live here. I was also fortunate as I sold my home very quickly knew what I wanted down here and jumped at it.Several of my neighbors are also in our age bracket.

wlou

08-13-2010, 03:33 PM

swrininfla.......hahahah Great post!

graciegirl

08-13-2010, 04:02 PM

Everyone knows this topic pushes my button.

Yes. Everyone is younger here. They get younger day by day. I am 16 and have been for a LONG time. People put up with me and I don't know why.

Swrinfla is right. Doctors are just babies anymore, how can they rush them through med school like that? You can't even trust bank presidents. I met once last week that was 12.

I do believe that the average age of Villagers that I have met is 60. I don't know. They all look so young and cute. Who knows?

kfierle

08-13-2010, 04:29 PM

Last week a sales rep answered that exact question for me. She said the median age is now 61, down from 63 years old.

Russ_Boston

08-13-2010, 05:42 PM

Well I guess we're to blame Me: 53 She: 50 But only PT for another year or so.

Maybe others are like us - we wanted to move to TV and with the price declines and low interest rates it just seems like the right thing to do now. We can always pay off the TV mortgage when we sell the 'north' home.

We better get there soon or the median age will pass us by!

Pturner

08-13-2010, 05:57 PM

Tom Hannon

08-13-2010, 06:08 PM

Yeah, I'm 62...Wifey is 58. I have three Village friends all in the same age group.

tjwarzel

08-13-2010, 06:32 PM

We just recently come down for our third trip in three years and one thing we noticed was the change in the selection of music on AM 640.

Russ_Boston

08-13-2010, 07:33 PM

Yep. That's us too, except we have a few years on you at 58 and 60 and our 'north' home is paid off.

I surprised P, I didn't think you looked a day over *& when we met.

What? You think I'm stupid enough to put a number in there? :)

SALYBOW

08-13-2010, 09:06 PM

Have you seen some of the kids wandering around posing as doctors, recently!

My "little boy" is posing as a doc in Minneappolis. I am sure people feel the same way when they see him.
"Where are you going my little one , Little One,... Turn around and you are a young man walking out the door." :sigh:

eweissenbach

08-13-2010, 10:03 PM

When we were in TV in April for a LSP, a friend and I played golf at Caine with two residents who were (my guess) in their early to mid 40s, and who lived near each other in Duval. Both traveled frequently and were in sales so they could live about anywhere near an airport. They were avid golfers, which I surmised was the reason they lived there, but still found it interesting that someone that age would choose a retirement community. I also wondered how their wives liked it.

Ohiogirl

08-14-2010, 07:28 AM

We bought over 4 years ago, at 55, but rented our villa out as not retired yet. Moving down as snowbirds this fall. We are now 59 (about to be 60) and 60. How did that happen???!!! Sixty! Either way you look at it (60 or sixty), it's getting up there. Don't feel like the babies on the block anymore, because guess what, we're not. It happens.

Remember when people used to say to you, "Oh, you don't look old enough to be retired," or "How is it possible you have children old enough to be parents themselves?" Is there some service we can sign up for to pay someone to keep saying that stuff?

But you know what? Most old people (like us, and most of the rest of the residents in TV) have hopefully mellowed, relaxed a little about life and its events, and have become nicer people. And Gracie and others are correct, age is but a number.

BritParrothead

08-14-2010, 07:52 AM

My youngest son, 33, is looking at properties in the Villages!! He says he will never be able to afford a decent home here in England, so he will probably buy at the villages. Not yet, but in a couple of years time.

graciegirl

08-14-2010, 07:59 AM

The fact that a much younger population finds this place enticing is both flattering and troubling.

I like that we are all "grown up".

BritParrothead

08-14-2010, 11:09 AM

Our son came over with us in June. He stayed for 2 weeks. He did say, he thought he might enjoy his vacation in T V, but he was suprised quite how much he did enjoy it!! :thumbup: He was made to feel very welcome by our friends and their friends!

2BNTV

08-14-2010, 02:57 PM

When I visited TV about three years ago, I mentioned it to someone who wrote for a newsaper and said she was familiar with TV and Florida retirement communities, "your too young to move there".

I am now on the north side of 60 and can't wait to go from a wannabe to a frog. It is refreshing to hear to average age of people moving is about 60.

It shows TV to be a paradise where many people want to move to.

As long as a person has their health and keeps active physically and mentally, it is truly only a number.

GG :agree:

wlou

08-14-2010, 03:18 PM

Thanks for all the replies, they were great! Believe me Graciegirl, I was not talking about how old everyone actually feels, acts, or treats others, just the demographics of the place ..I think it is awesome that this great mix of age groups can live together in such a wonderfully fun filled place!

swrinfla

08-14-2010, 04:09 PM

Speaking of aging, I just heard that my 60-year-old sister-in-law, who lives in the UK, has become a grandmother for the first time! Since my own mother was a grandparent when she was barely 44, and generated all sorts of remarks thereby, I thought maybe my sis-in-law was "behind the power curve," but then realized that my mother was way ahead of it!

In my mid-70s, I occasionally feel really, really old, since I do not have grandchildren of my own (three step grands, yes, but . . .), even while all these "kids" do!

Ah, well, in the end, it'll all come out in the wash!

SWR
:beer3:

robbie

08-14-2010, 08:44 PM

hubby is 61... i am 53 and more excited about this move than he is!!

Whalen

08-15-2010, 08:28 AM

Last week a sales rep answered that exact question for me. She said the median age is now 61, down from 63 years old.

In the article about the new hospital The Sun said that the median age of The Villages is 68.
I guess when you want a new hospital it's 68 and when you're selling houses it's 61.
:confused:

Russ_Boston

08-15-2010, 08:33 AM

In the article about the new hospital The Sun said that the median age of The Villages is 68.
I guess when you want a new hospital it's 68 and when you're selling houses it's 61.
:confused:

Maybe an average vs. median issue?