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Pickleball and protests: How a Trump visit is roiling the world's largest retirement community
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- But descriptions of the Villages from residents themselves are even more effusive.
- "It's like being at a resort on a full-time basis," says North Carolina transplant Betty Brock, 79.
- "The bottom line is, it's kind of like utopia," says 62-year-old Terri Emery, speaking against the backdrop of live music blaring from one of the Villages' five squares.
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Sheila Flynn The Villages, Florida Watch: "It can get heated" - World's largest retirement community talks US politics Some call the Villages - the largest retirement community in the world - "Disney without rollercoasters".
But descriptions of the Villages from residents themselves are even more effusive.
"It's like being at a resort on a full-time basis," says North Carolina transplant Betty Brock, 79. "I tell all my friends that don't live here, if you get bored in the Villages, it's not the Villages, it's you."
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