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Inside the Bubble

Author : Ryan Erisman

Publisher :

Page : 204 pages

File Size : 12,47 MB

Release : 2021-11-22

Category : Florida

ISBN : 9781734059625

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The Villages® retirement community in Central Florida is home to 700+ holes of golf, 200+ pickleball courts, 100 recreation centers, 100+ swimming pools, 3,000+ resident clubs and organizations, 100+ restaurants, a wide range of shops, grocery stores, and medical offices, free live entertainment nightly, and to top it off, nearly everything is golf cart accessible. With all of that in mind, it's no wonder why 130,000 retirees call it home.Yes, it's an incredible place, but it's not for everyone. Thousands of people buy and move here every year, but thousands more take a close look and decide it's not for them. This book was written to help you decide if it's the right place for you.



The Villages Florida Book

Author : Ryan Erisman

Publisher :

Page : 184 pages

File Size : 20,23 MB

Release : 2011-09-07

Category : Florida

ISBN : 9780615525556

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Join thousands of current and future "Villagers" who have learned from The Villages Florida Book.If you have big dreams of one day retiring to The Villages, but you just don't know where to start gathering the best information - you are not alone. The Villages Florida Book is designed to help you separate the fact from fiction about America's most popular retirement community, and begin your new life in The Villages with confidence.The Villages is one of the most popular Central Florida retirement communities. Ask anyone who lives there and they'll probably tell you there were things they wish they'd known more about before buying in The Villages. The Villages is a great place to live. But there are several important things that you need to know.The book's author, Ryan Erisman, runs the popular website TheVillagesFloridaBook.com and is the editor of The Villages Monthly, the only unbiased monthly newsletter published today about The Villages. The founder of For Boomers Media, he is also a contributing writer to several publications focused on retirement community living including 2nd Home Journal, Boomers On The Move, and others. Ryan's books have been featured in publications such as Where to Retire Magazine, Florida Home Builder, Florida Realtor Magazine, Top Retirements, and more.The Villages Florida Book was written to help people like you because there was no other complete resource on this popular retirement community. This is the most comprehensive book of its kind about The Villages available anywhere.



Leisureville

Author : Andrew D. Blechman

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 31,68 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Retirees

ISBN : 9780871139818

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Blechman delves into life in a gated retirement community and offers a hilarious, first-hand report on all its peculiarities. He also takes a serious look at the consequences of such instant cities and examines the implications of millions of Americans dropping out of society.



Leisureville

Author : Andrew D. Blechman

Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Page : 256 pages

File Size : 41,42 MB

Release : 2009-07-14

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1555848443

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Book Description

This revealing profile “disappears down the rabbit hole [into] the largest gated retirement community in the world” and what it discovers is “fascinating” (The New York Times). When his next-door neighbors pick up and move from New England to an age-restricted “active adult” development in Florida called The Villages, Andrew D. Blechman is astonished by their stories—and determined to investigate. Sprawling across two zip codes, with a golf course for every day of the month, two downtowns, its own newspaper, radio, and TV station, The Villages is a prefab paradise for retired Baby Boomers, where “not having children around seems to free [them] to act like adolescents” (The New York Times). In the critically acclaimed Leisureville, Blechman delves into this senior utopia, offering a hilarious firsthand report on everything from ersatz nostalgia to the residents’ surprisingly active sex life. Blechman also traces the history of this phenomenon, travelling to Arizona to find out what pioneering developments like Sun City and Youngtown have become after decades of segregation. Blending incisive social commentary and colorful reportage, “Blechman describes this brave new world with determined good humor and considerable bemusement” (Katherine A. Powers, The Boston Globe).



Florida for Boomers

Author : Ryan Erisman

Publisher : Ryan Erisman, Inc.

Page : 206 pages

File Size : 43,72 MB

Release : 2007-04

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1432703331

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BIG Birds in the Villages, Florida

Author : Paul Clark

Publisher :

Page : 44 pages

File Size : 43,5 MB

Release : 2018-09

Category :

ISBN : 9781725025660

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This field guide provides photographs and descriptions of larger birds in The Villages, Florida. Intentionally regional confined, the guide points-out simple uniquely identifying characteristics that differentiate one bird from another.



From Sun Cities to the Villages

Author : Judith Ann Trolander

Publisher :

Page : 352 pages

File Size : 47,64 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Cities and towns

ISBN : 9780813038988

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Book Description

Judith Ann Trolander has written a history of the 'active adult' lifestyle. Examining the origins, development, failures, and challenges facing these communities as the baby boomer population continues to age, she offers a truly original defence of a sometimes controversial aspect of American life.



Complete Guide to the Villages

Author : Ryan Erisman

Publisher :

Page : 168 pages

File Size : 16,25 MB

Release : 2014-01-01

Category :

ISBN : 9781494734251

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Everything Smart Buyers Need to Know Before Moving to The Villages



The Book Lover's Guide to Florida

Author : Kevin M. McCarthy

Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc

Page : 524 pages

File Size : 30,3 MB

Release : 1992

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9781561640126

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"Here is the book lover's literary tour of Florida, an exhaustive survey of writers, books, and literary sites in every part of the state. The state is divided into ten areas and each one is described from a literary point of view. You will learn what authors lived in or wrote about a place, which books describe the place, what important movies were made there, even the literary trivia which the true Florida book lover will want to know. You can use the book as a travel guide to a new way to see the state, as an armchair guide to a better understanding of our literary heritage, or as a guide to what to read next time you head to a bookstore or library."--Publisher.



The Villages Within

Author : Doug Taylor

Publisher : iUniverse

Page : 221 pages

File Size : 21,73 MB

Release : 2010-06-10

Category : Travel

ISBN : 145022525X

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The Villages Within is an irreverent version of Torontos past that will not improve anyones knowledge of history, but its fabrications and exaggerations may provide an amusing insight into the lives of those who built the town of York. It is an expos of historical untruths, a book that no school should ever permit its students to read. Discover Lord Dorchesters unusual method of staying warm while his underwear froze during his first winter in Canada. Learn about Elizabeth Simcoes struggle with the intoxicating evils of gooseberry wine. During the War of 1812, why did Laura Secord deliver a cow to James Fitzgibbon in the dead of night? Why did the residents of York fear an American invasion in 1813, even though they needed their dollars to support the towns tourist industry? Why did the colonists, who never bathed at the best of times, become truly revolting in 1837? In a more serious vein, this book chronicles the history and architecture of the Kings West District, the Kensington Market, and the proudly tacky Queen Street West. The narrative details the events in the life of the old St. Andrews Market, allowing those who visit the area today to appreciate its rich heritage.