Ever wondered what it would be like to live in a place where golf carts outnumber cars, happy hour starts at 2 PM, and there’s more pickleball courts than you can shake a paddle at?
Welcome to The Villages in Marion County, Florida – the retirement paradise that’s less “waiting room for the afterlife” and more “college campus for the AARP crowd.”
The Villages sprawls across three Florida counties (Marion, Lake, and Sumter), creating what locals affectionately call “Florida’s Friendliest Hometown” – though with over 130,000 residents, it’s less hometown and more “small nation with its own golf cart constitution.”
When you first drive into The Villages, you might think you’ve accidentally wandered onto a movie set designed by someone who really, really loves planned communities…