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Happy hour comes early to the Villages, home to more than 110,000 people and the largest master-planned city in America. "It's Disneyland for adults" is the ebullient tagline residents like Barry Brooks, 72, inevitably repeat when asked why they chose to live here.Brooks, a former college halfback with a russet tan and a yen for golf and fishing, is your prototypical "active adult." Strike up a conversation with him in a Village watering hole and you'll quickly get, along with a photo tour of his Kentucky hometown and a selfie with Donald Trump, a glowing rundown of the amenities that keep residents like him active.“They were but young trees at the time of the American Revolution,” said Villager Richard St. “They may also be the oldest, and largest, trees in The Villages and surrounding area.” St.Amant and some of his neighbors attended Monday night’s Lady Lake Commission in an attempt to make a last-ditch plea on the trees’ behalf.But that's part of what makes it so weird—even weirder, I would argue, than Gibsonton, the town so odd it inspired an The Villages is the largest gated over-55 community in the world. There were designated parking areas for golf carts at all the businesses. There are golf-cart tunnels and even a golf-cart bridge to cross the major highways. It helps that the community has its own microbrewery that pipes beer beneath the streets to its town-square restaurants.
"People live in the Villages because they want to do something," he says.
But the oddest community in Florida has the blandest name imaginable: the Villages.
The place doesn't generate a lot of strange news, like Miami, Key West, and Pasco County. Everything they could ever want is inside the gates. "We have the highest consumption of draft beer in the state of Florida,” one Villages official boasted in 2002.
Morse and his family have contributed
"People live in the Villages because they want to do something," he says.
But the oddest community in Florida has the blandest name imaginable: the Villages.
The place doesn't generate a lot of strange news, like Miami, Key West, and Pasco County. Everything they could ever want is inside the gates. "We have the highest consumption of draft beer in the state of Florida,” one Villages official boasted in 2002.
Morse and his family have contributed $1.8 million to the cause of removing Obama from the White House.
His biggest contribution, however, will be the Villages vote on Election Day. to influence what he can, including the next president." • • • Morse seems to be everywhere in the Villages — and nowhere. Friday's, Panera Bread Bakery Cafe, Starbucks, Barnes and Noble, and IZOD.
||"People live in the Villages because they want to do something," he says.But the oddest community in Florida has the blandest name imaginable: the Villages.The place doesn't generate a lot of strange news, like Miami, Key West, and Pasco County. Everything they could ever want is inside the gates. "We have the highest consumption of draft beer in the state of Florida,” one Villages official boasted in 2002.Morse and his family have contributed $1.8 million to the cause of removing Obama from the White House.His biggest contribution, however, will be the Villages vote on Election Day. to influence what he can, including the next president." • • • Morse seems to be everywhere in the Villages — and nowhere. Friday's, Panera Bread Bakery Cafe, Starbucks, Barnes and Noble, and IZOD.
.8 million to the cause of removing Obama from the White House.His biggest contribution, however, will be the Villages vote on Election Day. to influence what he can, including the next president." • • • Morse seems to be everywhere in the Villages — and nowhere. Friday's, Panera Bread Bakery Cafe, Starbucks, Barnes and Noble, and IZOD.
