In previous articles I've compared The Villages to several other popular communities such as On Top of the World, Latitude Margaritaville, the Villages of Citrus Hills, and others, but the more I think about it, as big as The Villages is getting, it's almost not really fair to The Villages or these other communities to compare The Villages to individual communities.

I think it makes more sense to compare The Villages to other popular Florida retirement cities, so that's what I'm going to do starting with this article.