The Villages Florida Book

Author : Ryan Erisman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615525556
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Villages Florida Book written by Ryan Erisman and published by . This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ryan Erisman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734059625
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside the Bubble written by Ryan Erisman and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Andrew D. Blechman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780871139818
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leisureville written by Andrew D. Blechman and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Andrew D. Blechman
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1555848443
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leisureville written by Andrew D. Blechman and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-07-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Author : August Norman
Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
ISBN 13 : 1683319761
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Come and Get Me written by August Norman and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Paul Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781725025660
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book BIG Birds in the Villages, Florida written by Paul Clark and published by . This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Judith Ann Trolander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813044484
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Sun Cities to the Villages written by Judith Ann Trolander and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Youngtown, Arizona, opened in 1954 and was the first development community to have a minimum age requirement (then 65) and to ban underage children as permanent residents. The developer Del Webb unveiled Sun City six years later. Adjacent to Yountown, it offered modest homes abutting a golf course. In the ensuing decades, active adult communities have proliferated, including Harold Schwartz's The Villages in central Florida, today [America's] largest retirement community. For nearly sixty years, the success of these and similar communities has changed the image of retirees from frail, impoverished old people to energetic, well-off adults enjoying a resort-like lifestyle. While some experts predicted these communities would fail or undermine the obligations between generations, they are now firmly embedded as one possible extension of the American Dream. Judith Ann Trolander's study of the "active adult" lifestyle focuses specifically on how the development of age-restricted communities has redefined the sense of self-identity among the elderly; changed the popular image of retirees; called attention to attitudes of the elderly toward children; popularized golf-course, gated, and amenity-rich developments; and made this new, age-restricted lifestyle affordable or accessible to large numbers of retirees - some of whom may actually continue working. Examining the origins, development, failures, and challenges facing these communities as the baby boomer population continues to age, Trolander offers a truly original defense of a sometimes controversial aspect of American life."--Book cover.

Author : Gillian Birch
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781460987612
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Days Out in Central Florida from the Villages written by Gillian Birch and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SEE REVISED EDITION NOW AVAILABLE*Finalist 2011 Royal Palm Literary Awards*A beautiful book of great days out in Central Florida from The Villages with full details of each handpicked attraction. Discover botanical gardens, estate homes, historic towns, parks, boardwalks, springs and even a winery, right on your doorstep! This book covers things to do, where to eat, detailed directions from the Villages, cost and opening times, along with a detailed eye-witness description of each day trip.

Author : Gillian Birch
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781481113052
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Favorite Days Out in Central Florida from "The Villages" Residents written by Gillian Birch and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This diverse collection of day trips in Central Florida was compiled from suggestions by residents of 'The Villages,' who shared their favorite attractions with author and travel writer, Gillian Birch. Whether you are a Florida resident or a visitor, this book is all the inspiration you need to discover hot springs, historic homes, classic cars, museums, and wonderful state parks that are ideal for all ages. More adventurous visitors will find local opportunities to hand-feed elephants, get up-close and “chuff' with beautiful big cats, or spin through 360 degrees on a wild airboat ride! Enjoy trolley tours, coach safaris, boardwalks, and wildlife parks where you can see manatees, wading birds, and even a hippo with special Florida citizenship, all just a short drive from your home in 'The Villages'.

Author : Judith Ann Trolander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813045559
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Sun Cities to the Villages written by Judith Ann Trolander and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: