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Thanks from some wannabes!

We appreciate everyone's thoughts and suggestions, as we inch closer to making a permanent move from the Midwest to become Frogs in TV. We're getting some projects done, before putting the house on the market. In the meanwhile, we're living vicariously through everyone's posts! :)

Paul & Gail

We picked Heminway, because a friend of my sister who lived in TV for 10 years said buy in one of 5 or 6 ( she have us a list) Villages that are some what on the new side you will find people more your age that are just retireing. We looked in many other states and kept coming back to the Villages for activties people and life syle. We take over our home March 31 2012, part time for the first year .

We didn't choose the village... We didn't know enough about The Villages to know what or where any of the villages are. We chose the lot!

We didn't care where we lived in The Villages as long as we could get there! We wanted a lot that didn't back up to another home as we have a "yapper' and we didn't want the sun setting on our lanai. We also wanted a lot large enough to build a birdcage.

I don't think you can live in a "bad" village! They are all wonderful!

Thanks you guys! Keep 'em coming!!! I'll have my village picked out before you know it. :a040::a040:

We looked at a lot of wonderful neighborhoods, houses (including premier and designer) as well as different views. We chose Haciendas at Mission Hills on the view side because we found it a combination of seeing preserve, water, the tunnels under the bridge, and private looking straight out; and activity looking out to the side view where the new Live Oak Park and baordwalk is which we can see from our home, the golf cart path etc but all with privacy. We have the corner lot. We liked the quiet and the busyness depending on what you want to gaze at. We likes the very large fenced yard for our two dogs as well as our own enjoyment of privacy. We know we will love our neighbors when we finally get moved there. We also liked it is a new neighborhood four minutes by golf cart to Lake Sumter Landing and a short ride to Spanish Springs, near many golf courses and easy to get to the supermarket, liquor store, town square. We also get the same gorgeous sunset you see over the Morse Street bridge and we can hear the music at night from a dstance. Just seemed like everything we wanted. We wish our villa was a few hundred feet bigger but we are making a Florida room out of the lanai and putting in a big bird cage. We could have bought a larger view villa a few doors down but we wanted the corner lot so settled for the smaller space as the yard, outdoors and view is important to us.We feel it is plenty for our lifestyle and the kids still have a few rooms to stay in when they come to visit!

By the way, there are still 5-7 left on the view side....

We picked a pre-owned cyv in Largo because it just "felt right" and also because it will be about the center of tv when Brownwood is completed! Close to Lake Sumter but not a really long golf cart ride from the other 2 squares either. I have noticed that if you are on the "younger side" or maybe just like to be very social, you might be happier buying in a newer area. Our neighborhood is 6 years old and tends to be more settled and not prone to weekly driveway parties, etc but that suits us. There's still plenty to keep us as busy as we want to be!

We based our decision on how easy the access is to Morse and Buena Vista blvd., as well as shopping since we just about always travel by golf cart. I think location is very important in your decision as some areas are quite far from stores and longer rides on roads and cart paths. You will make friends from all over the villages so don't base your decision on where some one you know may live. All styles/ sizes/ prices of homes are in each village.

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Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 455544)

I think that if you look around you, and see what it takes to maintain this place and look how it is kept and the flowers changed out every six weeks, and the remarkable HEAVY folding chairs in all of the rec centers and the design and furnishings of all of the rec centers, and the dozens of beautiful clean sparkling pools with painted every year common areas and beautiful shade coverings to the shuffleboard courts and the picnic areas at the neighborhood rec centers, and the pools for family and the pools for adults over thirty, and the pristine CLEANLINESS, no trash along the roadside or trash anywhere in the neighborhoods and the immediate response given by the warranty department, and the beautiful downtown areas, and the music available at the squares nightly and at the church on the square and at the Savannah center and the stages with curtains at all of the regional rec centers and the mail drops with air conditioning so our prescriptions don't get hot, and the EMS running all of the time to the folks who have fallen or become ill and the big hospital and the attempts to improve health care by the invited USF and the gorgeous landscaping, expensive landscaping right now everywhere getting new pine straw and the..

I think they are still plenty "customer service oriented". Thank you Harold's descendents. I would like to hug all of you. The apple never falls too far from the tree.:bigbow:

We echo everything Gracie has mentioned above. We had to see it with our own eyes and were quite surprised at how GREEN and lush everthing was.

The landscaping was definitely gorgeous. No matter where we went , it was totally immaculate. We saw the manpower at work, early every day, maintaining the highways and byways with the meticulous flower arrangements, etc. A very pretty place indeed.

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Originally Posted by angiefox10 (Post 455859)

Different strokes.

We currently live across from a Park and watch young families and their kids play and it is just steps away from 1 of the pools and rec centers in Baldwin Park (Orlando). Nice view but not a lot of neighbor interaction.

We are not really golfers so a golf view did not mean much to us; especially at 200K lot premium vs the 24K premium we are paying. We are putting that difference into the house itself.

So we chose a larger lot to be able to go with a 3 car garage rather than 2 + golf which is staggered between the houses behind us. The Premier lots are larger so you don't feel like you are on top of each other.

We also chose the lanai/ cage to face West as we are putting in a pool and enjoy the brilliant orange in the sky at night at sunset. The MBR will face North and West.

This is the same as our current house and it works for us. The cage will deflect quite a bit of the sun.

Like I say different reasons for different folks.

We chose Sanibel, because we decided to build. There didn't seem to be a lot of difference between new and preowned, so we decided to build what we wanted. We are very glad we did. The area is great, the people are super friendly. However, we have not been anywhere in the Villages where they have not been super friendly, so is you want new, build, if you want prowned look in any Village as they are all fantastic. The bottom line is enjoy your life no matter which Village you are in.:wave: