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Living in or near The Villages Florida is by far the best active retirement destination in Florida. The Villages Florida is not a gated retirement community, but rather contiguous special purpose municipalities called Community Development Districts (CDDs). The Villages is the largest active lifestyle community in the world. While CDDs are unincorporated political subdivisions, they are municipalities nonetheless.
The Villages can overwhelm first-time visitors, causing them to make a quick, emotional home purchase without seriously considering how they will use the abundance of recreation and commercial amenities, the overall cost and utility of their purchase, and the available nearby, more economical alternatives that may provide them just what they expect in retirement. Do you really need or want to pay...