Best place to live as a retired diver

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Well, you are right, at least one lives in The Villages.
All the Florida Man ('s? men?) i've met have been in cave country, or elsewhere in north central FL.
Documentary made about the villages last year:

 
As a non-American who has only been to Florida once (the Keys), I thought it was great! Not much not to like from a visitors perspective. We have friends who moved from Hawaii to New Zealand (never could understand that move!), they hate Florida, partly because of "Florida Man". I'd probably make a great Florida man 🤣
 
This one came out in 2020.


2021

It's more about a group of whack-jobs than about the Villages. But interesting none the less.
 
I have lived in FLA for about 40 years. It has most definitely changed as others have noted. It has gotten expensive, and feels alot less relaxed than it used to, as more and more construction happens and the green spaces diminish. We have something like 22 million + people here now, with the associated issues of mass humanity. Traffic sucks almost all the time. The reefs are really taking a beating from tourist/diver pressure and rising ocean temps, etc. Despite ALL that, I wouldn't live anywhere else. Fell in love with the state years ago, and I'm still here. I'm in east coast, central florida.
 
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