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Inside the Bubble

Author : Ryan Erisman

Publisher :

Page : 204 pages

File Size : 10,97 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 : 49,9 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 : 39,87 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 : 33,74 MB

Release : 2009-07-14

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1555848443

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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).



Come and Get Me

Author : August Norman

Publisher : Crooked Lane Books

Page : 385 pages

File Size : 11,42 MB

Release : 2019-04-09

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1683319761

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An intrepid journalist confronts a small town’s dark secrets in Come and Get Me, a breakneck thriller for fans of Tess Gerritsen and Julia Keller At Indiana University, someone’s been studying the female student body: their dating customs, nocturnal activities—and how long they can survive in captivity. When award-winning journalist Caitlin Bergman is invited back to campus to receive an honorary degree, she finds an opportunity for a well-earned victory lap—and a chance to face the trauma that almost destroyed her as an undergrad. But her lap becomes an all-out race when a student begs her to probe an unsolved campus disappearance: Angela Chapman went out one Friday night and never came back. To find the missing woman, Caitlin must join forces with a local police detective and the department that botched her own case so long ago. But while Caitlin follows the clues behind Angela’s disappearance, someone else is following her... Unearthing secrets hidden beneath an idyllic Midwestern college town, Caitlin must expose what really happened to Angela—before she herself becomes the newest addition to a twisted collection.



BIG Birds in the Villages, Florida

Author : Paul Clark

Publisher :

Page : 44 pages

File Size : 42,19 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.



Florida for Boomers

Author : Ryan Erisman

Publisher : Ryan Erisman, Inc.

Page : 206 pages

File Size : 10,78 MB

Release : 2007-04

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1432703331

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Best. State. Ever.

Author : Dave Barry

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 242 pages

File Size : 42,47 MB

Release : 2017-09-05

Category : Humor

ISBN : 1101982616

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A New York Times bestseller—a brilliantly funny exploration of the Sunshine State from the man who knows it best: Pulitzer Prize winner Dave Barry. We never know what will happen next in Florida. We know only that, any minute now, something will. Every few months, Dave Barry gets a call from some media person wanting to know, “What the hell is wrong with Florida?” Somehow, the state's acquired an image as a subtropical festival of stupid, and as a loyal Floridian, Dave begs to differ. Join him as he goes in hunt of the legendary Skunk Ape; hobnobs with the mermaids of Weeki Wachee Springs; and visits Cassadaga, the psychic capital of the world, to have his dog's aura read (apparently, she's "very spiritual"). Hitch a ride for the non-stop thrills of alligator-wrestling ("the gators display the same fighting spirit as a Barcalounger"), the hair-raising spectacle of a clothing-optional bar in Key West, and the manly manliness of the Machine Gun Experience in Miami. It's the most hilarious book yet from “the funniest damn writer in the whole country” (Carl Hiaasen, and he should know). By the end, you'll have to admit that whatever else you might think about Florida—you can never say it's boring.



Pickleball Zen - The Inner Game

Author : Paul Hudanich

Publisher :

Page : 64 pages

File Size : 31,52 MB

Release : 2016-01-26

Category :

ISBN : 9781523434565

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The author takes us on an educational mystery tour through the more subtle side of sports instruction. Professional golfers employ two coaches, a swing coach and a "mind" coach. Now serious pickleball players can have their own "mind" coach. Let Coach Om bring Zen to your game. Other books teach you how to "play," this book will teach you to WIN. You will absolutely love to read and re-read this fun book that is part Star Wars, part Karate Kid, and part Wizard of Oz. Namaste. - De La Vista book club



The 2022 Florida Retirement Handbook

Author : Ryan Erisman

Publisher : Ryan Erisman Incorporated

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 27,50 MB

Release : 2021-10-06

Category : Reference

ISBN : 9781734059618

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The 2022 Florida Retirement Handbook includes information on 100+ of the best places and communities for retirement, the effects the coronavirus pandemic has had on the Florida retirement landscape, the safest places to retire in Florida, cost of living information, navigate the Florida homeowner's insurance minefield, and more.