Have you/do you plan on moving to some other state when you retire?

[MahiMike]

Hate to make this a DC thread but I was JUST googling where to disappear to as a conservative hermit. Tired of being scared by the Libtard zombies.

Seriously considering getting an Airstream and roaming the country looking for a nice conservative town to retire to.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by MahiMike

Hate to make this a DC thread but I was JUST googling where to disappear to as a conservative hermit. Tired of being scared by the Libtard zombies.

Seriously considering getting an Airstream and roaming the country looking for a nice conservative town to retire to.

I'm not meaning to generalize, but isn't that pretty much any town in America with fewer than 50,000 people and no college?

[DeepPurple]

Originally Posted by MahiMike

Hate to make this a DC thread but I was JUST googling where to disappear to as a conservative hermit. Tired of being scared by the Libtard zombies.

Seriously considering getting an Airstream and roaming the country looking for a nice conservative town to retire to.

I live in The Villages, Florida. It started in 1968 as a trailer park on Hwy 441 about 60 miles north west of Orlando. About 1990 the developer brought in his son from upper Michigan (Mark Farner & Ted Nugent area), and he began the actual housing development. It's now 40 square miles and population 130,000 over the age of 55. No one under 19 can live here or visit for more than 30 days a year. The population 99% white, African Americans about 1%. If any African Americans want to move here, I say come on. In our villa section of 80 villas, three are AA. They want the same things as white people, a safe place to live out your retirement years.

I moved here in 2011, I'll be 69 in July. For major sports, Tampa is a 90 minute drive south on I-75, College you have Gainesville a 60 minute drive north, that's the Florida Gators. I'm a Seminole Fan, that's in Tallahassee a little further north. Once you live here a while, you really don't want to go elsewhere too often. The news we get from Orlando, and they have as many murders as any city in the north. Orlando is not a great place to live.

I was familiar with Florida, I grew up in St. Petersburg from 4th grade (1959) to 1977, then moved to Pensacola (home of Naval Aviation) until 1982. Lived in Savannah the rest of the 80's and then moved to Maryland for 22 years. I retired in 2004 and after both my parents were deceased I retired here in 2011.

We have 12 championship golf courses, 10 of them are 27 hole layouts. We have 35 nine hole executive golf courses (par 3's). We are divided in about 75 Villages with about 1200 homes in each village. Each village has a pool and a rec center. Rec Centers have tennis courts and pickleball courts, that's really big here. They now have a championship on CBSSports. We also have larger Regional Rec Center with pools, I guess we've got about 90 pools all together.

We have 3 town squares, each one has a live band play everyday from 5pm to 9pm, usually classic rock, oldies, disco, etc. Each square has a theater with 8 screens. The Villages is about 75% Republican and our county (Sumter) had the highest total for Trump than any county in Florida, and of course Trump won Florida.

Here's a square, this one is Lake Sumter Landing. Did I tell you, you can drive a golf cart anywhere within The Villages, there are over 50,000 carts here. Some people don't even own a car anymore. The Florida Turnpike goes right by here, so you can be in Orlando in one hour. The Gulf Beaches are about two hours to Clearwater, which is the best.



A band and the dance floor at Lake Sumter Landing Square.



All of the Fox News people or any conservative with a book will be at our Barnes & Nobles



The original square was Spanish Springs





The newest square Brownwood, opened in 2013



Live Webcam at each square aimed at the bandstand and dance floor. If a picture doesn't come up, keep refreshing since each camera is limited to 500 viewers.

The Villages Webcams

The Developer's Website for home information and resales

https://www.thevillages.com/lifestyle/

[Mosbonian]

Originally Posted by DeepPurple

I live in The Villages, Florida. It started in 1968 as a trailer park on Hwy 441 about 60 miles north west of Orlando. About 1990 the developer brought in his son from upper Michigan (Mark Farner & Ted Nugent area), and he began the actual housing development. It's now 40 square miles and population 130,000 over the age of 55. No one under 19 can live here or visit for more than 30 days a year. The population 99% white, African Americans about 1%. If any African Americans want to move here, I say come on. In our villa section of 80 villas, three are AA. They want the same things as white people, a safe place to live out your retirement years.

I moved here in 2011, I'll be 69 in July. For major sports, Tampa is a 90 minute drive south on I-75, College you have Gainesville a 60 minute drive north, that's the Florida Gators. I'm a Seminole Fan, that's in Tallahassee a little further north. Once you live here a while, you really don't want to go elsewhere too often. The news we get from Orlando, and they have as many murders as any city in the north. Orlando is not a great place to live.

I was familiar with Florida, I grew up in St. Petersburg from 4th grade (1959) to 1977, then moved to Pensacola (home of Naval Aviation) until 1982. Lived in Savannah the rest of the 80's and then moved to Maryland for 22 years. I retired in 2004 and after both my parents were deceased I retired here in 2011.

We have 12 championship golf courses, 10 of them are 27 hole layouts. We have 35 nine hole executive golf courses (par 3's). We are divided in about 75 Villages with about 1200 homes in each village. Each village has a pool and a rec center. Rec Centers have tennis courts and pickleball courts, that's really big here. They now have a championship on CBSSports. We also have larger Regional Rec Center with pools, I guess we've got about 90 pools all together.

We have 3 town squares, each one has a live band play everyday from 5pm to 9pm, usually classic rock, oldies, disco, etc. Each square has a theater with 8 screens. The Villages is about 75% Republican and our county (Sumter) had the highest total for Trump than any county in Florida, and of course Trump won Florida.

Here's a square, this one is Lake Sumter Landing. Did I tell you, you can drive a golf cart anywhere within The Villages, there are over 50,000 carts here. Some people don't even own a car anymore. The Florida Turnpike goes right by here, so you can be in Orlando in one hour. The Gulf Beaches are about two hours to Clearwater, which is the best.



A band and the dance floor at Lake Sumter Landing Square.



All of the Fox News people or any conservative with a book will be at our Barnes & Nobles



The original square was Spanish Springs





The newest square Brownwood, opened in 2013



Live Webcam at each square aimed at the bandstand and dance floor. If a picture doesn't come up, keep refreshing since each camera is limited to 500 viewers.

The Villages Webcams

The Developer's Website for home information and resales

https://www.thevillages.com/lifestyle/

Live in Jax.....thinking about moving to The Villages myself when I retire in a couple of years. Might want to chat with you about it sometime.

[MahiMike]

Originally Posted by Mosbonian

Live in Jax.....thinking about moving to The Villages myself when I retire in a couple of years. Might want to chat with you about it sometime.

Funny thing. Jax is rated #5 city but I don't see it.

https://thestir.cafemom.com/politics...esa_arizona/20

Thanks Deep Purple for the Villages tip. My dad actually stayed there some w/folks from KC.

[Mosbonian]

Originally Posted by MahiMike

Funny thing. Jax is rated #5 city but I don't see it.

https://thestir.cafemom.com/politics...esa_arizona/20

Thanks Deep Purple for the Villages tip. My dad actually stayed there some w/folks from KC.

I should clarify that I live outside of Jax proper...live in Clay County because the cost of everything is much much cheaper. Although the Clay County area is the fastest growing in the area...beating St John's Co...it still is a nice place to settle.

The only real pain is the drive across the Buckman Bridge....beautiful view, but really crazy traffic with stupid drivers.

[DeepPurple]

Originally Posted by Mosbonian

Live in Jax.....thinking about moving to The Villages myself when I retire in a couple of years. Might want to chat with you about it sometime.

The biggest problem now is, all 35 square miles they owned north of the Turnpike was been completed. Other than the developers, the Morse family 2700 acre horse farm they own in the middle, which right now it's the family compound. The grandaughter is the main girl on the show The Black List. We have our own high school, The Villages High. You say why do you need a high when no one under 19 can live there. We have 12,000 people work in The Villages, if you work here, your kid can go to our high school. It's tops in the state, beautiful football stadium. The basketball team just won their conference and one of the players, Tre Mann will be playing for the Gators next year.

All the new construction is going on below the Turnpike, they bought thousands of acres from Leesburg and Wildwood. They've only started a year ago and already have 2500 homes sold. The problem, there are no restaurants or stores in that area. You'll have to drive five miles to the nearest Publix, stuff will be built, but it will take a couple of years. They have two golf cart bridges currently under construction so you can cross the Turnpike and CR44, but currently you cannot drive your golf cart from those areas to where live and the golf courses are located. Where I live, it's 15 miles from the new areas. We have all kinds of stores in this area. Because of this, a lot of people are buying the resales, which is great for me. My courtyard villa that I bought new in 2011 for $158K and now worth $250K. You'll have to decide, do you want new and have to drive a long way to restaurants and stuff or to buy a resale. Resales usually have a lot of improvements. I have six championship golf courses I can reach in my golf cart within 15 minutes. I go to a gym 3 days a week, it's beautiful, big and nice, but is 10 miles from the new homes. Here's my gym, it's six years old, there is no gym under construction in the new area. Also new homes and resales are much higher priced in The Villages. Look at homes in zip code 32162 The Villages and then look at homes in Summerfield 15 miles north of The Villages, which has two different retirement communities. Hope this helps, my gym is called MVP and it's free with my health care. Also, we have our own VA Medical Facility, I had my annual free eye exam today at the VA, if you're a veteran its' free.

MVP Gym



Our VA Clinic, it handles over 16,000 patients. The Villages has 19,000 veterans living here.

[Randallflagg]

Originally Posted by DeepPurple

I live in The Villages, Florida. It started in 1968 as a trailer park on Hwy 441 about 60 miles north west of Orlando. About 1990 the developer brought in his son from upper Michigan (Mark Farner & Ted Nugent area), and he began the actual housing development. It's now 40 square miles and population 130,000 over the age of 55. No one under 19 can live here or visit for more than 30 days a year. The population 99% white, African Americans about 1%. If any African Americans want to move here, I say come on. In our villa section of 80 villas, three are AA. They want the same things as white people, a safe place to live out your retirement years.

I moved here in 2011, I'll be 69 in July. For major sports, Tampa is a 90 minute drive south on I-75, College you have Gainesville a 60 minute drive north, that's the Florida Gators. I'm a Seminole Fan, that's in Tallahassee a little further north. Once you live here a while, you really don't want to go elsewhere too often. The news we get from Orlando, and they have as many murders as any city in the north. Orlando is not a great place to live.

I was familiar with Florida, I grew up in St. Petersburg from 4th grade (1959) to 1977, then moved to Pensacola (home of Naval Aviation) until 1982. Lived in Savannah the rest of the 80's and then moved to Maryland for 22 years. I retired in 2004 and after both my parents were deceased I retired here in 2011.

We have 12 championship golf courses, 10 of them are 27 hole layouts. We have 35 nine hole executive golf courses (par 3's). We are divided in about 75 Villages with about 1200 homes in each village. Each village has a pool and a rec center. Rec Centers have tennis courts and pickleball courts, that's really big here. They now have a championship on CBSSports. We also have larger Regional Rec Center with pools, I guess we've got about 90 pools all together.

We have 3 town squares, each one has a live band play everyday from 5pm to 9pm, usually classic rock, oldies, disco, etc. Each square has a theater with 8 screens. The Villages is about 75% Republican and our county (Sumter) had the highest total for Trump than any county in Florida, and of course Trump won Florida.

Here's a square, this one is Lake Sumter Landing. Did I tell you, you can drive a golf cart anywhere within The Villages, there are over 50,000 carts here. Some people don't even own a car anymore. The Florida Turnpike goes right by here, so you can be in Orlando in one hour. The Gulf Beaches are about two hours to Clearwater, which is the best.



A band and the dance floor at Lake Sumter Landing Square.



All of the Fox News people or any conservative with a book will be at our Barnes & Nobles



The original square was Spanish Springs





The newest square Brownwood, opened in 2013



Live Webcam at each square aimed at the bandstand and dance floor. If a picture doesn't come up, keep refreshing since each camera is limited to 500 viewers.

The Villages Webcams

The Developer's Website for home information and resales

https://www.thevillages.com/lifestyle/

I've got a good friend that lives in the area - plays in a band that frequently plays gigs at the Villages - "Rocky and the Rollers" -pays well. He also does the cruise ship thing, too.

[GloucesterChief]

Looking at three places but it is a long way off:

-Hampton Roads, VA
-Bremerton/Silverdale, WA
-Accra, Ghana

[DeepPurple]

Originally Posted by Randallflagg

I've got a good friend that lives in the area - plays in a band that frequently plays gigs at the Villages - "Rocky and the Rollers" -pays well. He also does the cruise ship thing, too.

Rocky and the Rollers are the #1 band here, they just celebrated their 20th Anniversary of playing in The Villages. I've seen them about 25 times in my 8 years of living here. They play all three squares plus we have two concert venues, the Savannah Center holds 850 and the Sharon Theater holds 1100, and that place just opened last year. During the winter we have many more shows. In March I saw Micky Thomas and Starship and The Village People with the original singer, both at the Savannah Center. If you want to see big crowds, whenever Rocky is playing checkout the webcams. Here's a link below. The crowds will be a little smaller now since snowbird season has just ended.

The Villages Webcams

[cooper barrett]

I am slightly familiar with the area, been there 3 times. I like to joke it's the only place I'd die in a drunken golf cart accident as some of those electrics can haul ass nowdays. I do remember I sure drank a lot when there. And finding your way home.... can you say adventure?

It is a great place to lay back and relax, fish, drink, and golf. I couldn't pay for a round but like my old Lindsey golf membership, when I brought a guest, it was expensive.

My friend passed 2 years back, couldn't quit drinking :-(, and after not being there for 3 years; I almost forgot about how nice the area was. Prices on property are up, but that's everywhere.

I need to do a week long fact gathering stay and learn about the area again.

Originally Posted by DeepPurple

I live in The Villages, Florida. It started in 1968 as a trailer park on Hwy 441 about 60 miles north west of Orlando. About 1990 the developer brought in his son from upper Michigan (Mark Farner & Ted Nugent area), and he began the actual housing development. It's now 40 square miles and population 130,000 over the age of 55. No one under 19 can live here or visit for more than 30 days a year. The population 99% white, African Americans about 1%. If any African Americans want to move here, I say come on. In our villa section of 80 villas, three are AA. They want the same things as white people, a safe place to live out your retirement years.

I moved here in 2011, I'll be 69 in July. For major sports, Tampa is a 90 minute drive south on I-75, College you have Gainesville a 60 minute drive north, that's the Florida Gators. I'm a Seminole Fan, that's in Tallahassee a little further north. Once you live here a while, you really don't want to go elsewhere too often. The news we get from Orlando, and they have as many murders as any city in the north. Orlando is not a great place to live.

I was familiar with Florida, I grew up in St. Petersburg from 4th grade (1959) to 1977, then moved to Pensacola (home of Naval Aviation) until 1982. Lived in Savannah the rest of the 80's and then moved to Maryland for 22 years. I retired in 2004 and after both my parents were deceased I retired here in 2011.

We have 12 championship golf courses, 10 of them are 27 hole layouts. We have 35 nine hole executive golf courses (par 3's). We are divided in about 75 Villages with about 1200 homes in each village. Each village has a pool and a rec center. Rec Centers have tennis courts and pickleball courts, that's really big here. They now have a championship on CBSSports. We also have larger Regional Rec Center with pools, I guess we've got about 90 pools all together.

We have 3 town squares, each one has a live band play everyday from 5pm to 9pm, usually classic rock, oldies, disco, etc. Each square has a theater with 8 screens. The Villages is about 75% Republican and our county (Sumter) had the highest total for Trump than any county in Florida, and of course Trump won Florida.

Here's a square, this one is Lake Sumter Landing. Did I tell you, you can drive a golf cart anywhere within The Villages, there are over 50,000 carts here. Some people don't even own a car anymore. The Florida Turnpike goes right by here, so you can be in Orlando in one hour. The Gulf Beaches are about two hours to Clearwater, which is the best.

[BucEyedPea]

Originally Posted by DeepPurple

I live in The Villages, Florida.

Really? I ended up there by accident looking for a furniture store in Leesburg, that had a love seat I wanted and couldn't find anywhere. I pulled into eat afterwards on my way home and noticed after I ate it was more than that restaurant near the front. I think it was a Roadhouse? So I drove through it very slowly and I heard a band playing. It was just unusual to me.

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by BucEyedPea

Really? I ended up there by accident looking for a furniture store in Leesburg, that had a love seat I wanted and couldn't find anywhere. I pulled into eat afterwards on my way home and noticed after I ate it was more than that restaurant near the front. I think it was a Roadhouse? So I drove through it very slowly and I heard a band playing. It was just unusual to me.

people that live/retire there sure do love it. Not my cup of tea though.

[BucEyedPea]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

people that live/retire there sure do love it. Not my cup of tea though.

It's too far inland for me.

[DeepPurple]

Originally Posted by BucEyedPea

Really? I ended up there by accident looking for a furniture store in Leesburg, that had a love seat I wanted and couldn't find anywhere. I pulled into eat afterwards on my way home and noticed after I ate it was more than that restaurant near the front. I think it was a Roadhouse? So I drove through it very slowly and I heard a band playing. It was just unusual to me.

You probably ate at Cody's Road House at Brownwood Square, they have 3 Cody's in The Villages, one at each square. We ate at Cody's at Lake Sumter Square last Saturday, that's about 7 miles north of Brownwood. They have a really good singing duo outside on the patio bar every Saturday.

The Brownwood Square area is still being developed. They just opened Shooter's World there, it's part of Florida's largest gun shop out of Tampa, it's huge. Also on CR44 you probably noticed two highrises, one is a new 5 story medical building and the other is a 7 story hotel with a Wolfgang Puck Restaurant. As far as homes, this area is finished, next time you get on the Fla Turnpike toward Orlando, look to your left and right as you pass Wildwood. For ten miles they're building new roads and homes all the way to Leesburg.

During snowbird season Brownwood can be packed on holidays or if one of the better bands are playing. Here's where you saw the music.