Would you ever live in The Villages, Florida?

[Suburbia]

I know most of the demographic of the Atlas forum here is Gen X/Millennial/Gen Z.

Most white Republican silent generation and baby boomers currently live in The Villages.

They adored Nixon, Reagan, Thatcher, Laxalt.

But anyway, other than the Republican politics there, when you get older, would you ever live in the Villages, Florida?

Which millennial will go there to live in their 60s/70s/80s? Tomi Lahren? Charlie Kirk?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-villages-florida_n_2076715

https://www.thevha.net/

https://www.thevillages.com/

Personally, I don't care for their politics, but I do not like to live in gated or restricted communities where you are controlled what to buy on your home or other HOA stuff.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Ha ha NOPE

[Illiniwek]

Really the only elderly family that my immediate family is close to spend their winters in The Villages. One couple is extremely conservative and are of course right at home. The other couple are married and the same sex, and are extremely liberal. They are certainly in the minority, but have found a very vocal group of like minded individuals. They all seem to love it down there together. Not how I would choose to spend my retirement years though. AT LEAST LIVE ON THE WATER IF YOU'RE IN FLORIDA FOR GOODNESS SAKE!

As far as gated communities, well, the address where I vote is in a gated community. So yeah, all for that.

[Donerail]

Nah, it's far from everywhere

[thumb21]

How is it legal for a whole town of 50k to have age restrictions???

To answer the question, no. I'd find living in such a bubble extremely boring.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

How is it legal for a whole town of 50k to have age restrictions???

To answer the question, no. I'd find living in such a bubble extremely boring.

It's not legal for any municipality in the US to have age restrictions. Most likely these are set by homeowner's associations and condo developers.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Most white Republican silent generation and baby boomers currently live in The Villages.

[citation needed]

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

Florida on its own is a no, but boomer central is a hell no.

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

A gated, master-planned glorified golf course full of old Republicans in non-coastal Florida? I can't imagine a more hellish place.

[DINGO Joe]

I'm not a fan of elder segregation.

[Mr. Smith]

Florida on its own is a no, but boomer central is a hell no.

[TDAS04]

Obviously not.

[Obama-Biden Democrat]

They probably keep the blacks out too.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I was doing some reading, and this hellhole has its own MSA?! Saints alive.

[Vosem]

I was doing some reading, and this hellhole has its own MSA?! Saints alive.

The fastest growing one in America, by far, over the course of the last decade, and one of just 9 with over 20% growth between 2010-2018:

1. +36.6%: The Villages, FL
2. +27.1%: Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC
3. +25.8%: Midland, TX
4. +25.5%: Austin-Round Rock, TX
5. +24.1%: St. George, UT
6. +23.6%: Greeley, CO
7. +21.7%: Bend-Redmond, OR
8. +21.6%: Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL
9. +20.3%: Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I was doing some reading, and this hellhole has its own MSA?! Saints alive.

The fastest growing one in America, by far, over the course of the last decade, and one of just 9 with over 20% growth between 2010-2018:

1. +36.6%: The Villages, FL
2. +27.1%: Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC
3. +25.8%: Midland, TX
4. +25.5%: Austin-Round Rock, TX
5. +24.1%: St. George, UT
6. +23.6%: Greeley, CO
7. +21.7%: Bend-Redmond, OR
8. +21.6%: Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL
9. +20.3%: Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL

Kyrie eleison.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I was doing some reading, and this hellhole has its own MSA?! Saints alive.

It's got a population of over 50k, which is the Census bureau's cutoff for metro status, any city of that size automatically is one as long as it's not a suburb.

I know this pretty well because when I lived in Mankato the city was waging a battle to be upgraded from a metropolitan to metropolitan area, but the Census refused to recognize anywhere outside of Mankato and North Mankato as the "core area" and denied the claim that Eagle Lake was a suburb of Mankato that the city and counties were making (correctly I might add) to put the core area over 50k. Mankato was eventually given metropolitan area status in 2008 when Census estimates showed Mankato-North Mankato having over 50k population on their own.

Oh here's an interesting fact: the one city the Census recognized as a Mankato suburb is Skyline, a small affluent residential neighborhood south of Mankato that is so isolated there's only one road in and one road out and it exists for basically no reason aside from allowing its residents to not pay Mankato property taxes and pay it's own at about a third of the amount, was stronger for Hillary than Mankato.

[Lechasseur]

Ha ha NOPE

[morgankingsley]

Probably not

[FairBol]

I would, but only when I'm about 70, LOL

[Progressive Pessimist]

They're in Florida, so the answer is no by default.

[brucejoel99]

Ask me again in 5 decades.