The Villages Florida Book

Author : Ryan Erisman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-07
Category : Florida
ISBN : 0615525555

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The Villages Florida Book by Ryan Erisman Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Florida
ISBN : 1734059621

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Inside the Bubble by Ryan Erisman Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Retirees
ISBN : 0871139812

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Leisureville by Andrew D. Blechman Pdf

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.
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781555848446

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Leisureville by Andrew D. Blechman Pdf

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 : Judith Ann Trolander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 0813044480

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From Sun Cities to the Villages by Judith Ann Trolander Pdf

"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 : August Norman
Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781683319764

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Come and Get Me by August Norman Pdf

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 : Ryan Erisman
Publisher : Ryan Erisman, Inc.
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781432703332

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Florida for Boomers by Ryan Erisman Pdf

Author : Kent Russell
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525521396

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In the Land of Good Living by Kent Russell Pdf

A wickedly smart, funny, and irresistibly off-kilter account of an improbable thousand-mile journey on foot into the heart of modern Florida, the state that Russell calls "America Concentrate." In the summer of 2016, Kent Russell--broke, at loose ends, hungry for adventure--set off to walk across Florida. Mythic, superficial, soaked in contradictions, maligned by cultural elites, segregated from the South, and literally vanishing into the sea, Florida (or, as he calls it: "America Concentrate") seemed to Russell to embody America's divided soul. The journey, with two friends intent on filming the ensuing mayhem, quickly reduces the trio to filthy drifters pushing a shopping cart of camera equipment. They get waylaid by a concerned citizen bearing a rifle; buy cocaine from an ex-wrestler; visit a spiritual medium. The narrative overflows with historical detail about how modern Florida came into being after World War II, and how it came to be a petri dish for life in a suddenly, increasingly diverse new land of minority-majority cities and of unrivaled ethnic and religious variety. Russell has taken it all in with his incomparably focused lens and delivered a book that is both an inspired travelogue and a profound rumination on the nation's soul--and his own. It is a book that is wildly vivid, encyclopedic, erudite, and ferociously irreverent--a deeply ambivalent love letter to his sprawling, brazenly varied home state.

Author : Hillary Rodham Clinton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781471108648

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It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton Pdf

Ten years ago one of America's most important public figures, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, chronicled her quest both deeply personal and, in the truest sense, public to help make our society into the kind of village that enables children to become able, caring resilient adults. IT TAKES A VILLAGE is a textbook for caring, filled with truths that are worth a read, and a reread. In her substantial new introduction, Senator Clinton reflects on how our village has changed over the last decade, from the internet to education, and on how her own understanding of children has deepened as she has watched Chelsea grow up and take on challenges new to her generation, from a first job to living through a terrorist attack. She discusses how the work she is doing in the Senate is helping children and looks at where America has been successful, improvements in the foster care system and support for adoption, and where there is still work to be done, providing pre-school programmes and universal health care to all our children. This new edition elucidates how the choices we make about how we raise our children, and how we support families, will determine how all nations will face the challenges of this century.

Author : Paul Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1725025663

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BIG Birds in the Villages, Florida by Paul Clark Pdf

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 : Joan Tapper,Nik Wheeler
Publisher : Thames and Hudson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0500513686

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Most Beautiful Villages and Towns of California by Joan Tapper,Nik Wheeler Pdf

Showcasing the most beautiful villages and towns of California, this collection of Wheelers stunning photography and Tappers perceptive commentaries evokes not just historic houses but also streetscapes, parks, and physical surroundings.

Author : Dave Barry
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781101982617

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Best. State. Ever. by Dave Barry Pdf

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.

Author : Ryan Erisman
Publisher : Ryan Erisman Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1734059613

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The 2022 Florida Retirement Handbook by Ryan Erisman Pdf

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.

Author : Jennifer Birch,Victor D. Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : East (U.S.)
ISBN : 1683400682

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The Archaeology of Villages in Eastern North America by Jennifer Birch,Victor D. Thompson Pdf

The emergence of village-communities profoundly transformed social organization in every part of the world where such societies developed. Contributors to 'The Archaeology of Villages in Eastern North America' employ archaeological and historical evidence to explore the development of villages among eastern North American indigenous societies of the deep and recent past. Rich data sets from archaeology and contemporary social theory are employed to document the physical attributes of villages, the structural organization and aggregation of such entities, what it means to be a villager, cosmological and ritual systems, and how villages were entangled with one another in regional networks.

Author : Judith Ann Trolander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 081304555X

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From Sun Cities to the Villages by Judith Ann Trolander Pdf