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Brian O'Connell

Retiring in Florida? What It's Really Like to Live in Its Most Talked-About Retirement Spot

Two couples golfing.

At around 57 square miles, The Villages is bigger than Disney World (39 square miles) and almost as big as Washington, D.C. (69 square miles). If you ask the locals, it packs just as much punch.

Located in Central Florida near Orlando and home to more than 150,000 residents (who call themselves "Villagers"), The Villages is formally a 55-plus community and bills itself as the number-one-rated master-planning community in the U.S..

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