I hear nice things about the Villages.
I’ve heard pro and con about The Villages...On Top of The World has better reviews, but the HOA fees are outrageous. Ocala’s crime rate is also really high for an otherwise lovely town.
My parents moved to The Villages in the late 1990s. They were happy there, and Mom still lives there. There are many advantages, and house prices are down right now.
Traffic is outrageous in the busy season, October to April.
Check out Hi by lands Ridge in Avon Park, it is a golf community with two great courses. Sebring (home of the 12 hours of Sebring road race) is 3 miles away.
The Villages are nice not that far from Disney and they don’t have the 192 gangs you have in orlando. Cost of living is ok but housing prices there are going up every year.
HOt in the summer but it does cool off at night.
Here in the keys expensive all the time hot all the time,millions of tourists every year,gridlock on the roads.
too close to dade and broward the armpits of Fla.
East Central Fla.Vero etc. nice places,affordable low crime.
Read an article a while back stating that The Villages is the STD capitol of the USA. Go figure. Us old folks don’t have anything better to do and don’t care. :)
The builders involved in the Villages are about to pull out,
Turning costs of parks, roads, water and sewer treatment etc over to home owners.
Costs will rise