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

I like that we are all "grown up".

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:

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!

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

Very Interesting
 

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?

Don't think it's that complicated.
Probably just plain old marketing.