The Villages has 33 nine-hole golf courses, and 55,000 golf carts, which are used for more than just golf ...
Share to twitterWilliam LeBeau, 86, right, sits in his golf cart in a parking spot at the main square in The Villages, Fla. Florida’s Walt Disney World Resort, is a town-sized retirement community known to its residents as the “Disney World for old people.” Few in the town are younger than 55, and more than half of the baby-boomer residents dot around on golf carts; not just on golf courses, but everywhere: to the supermarket, to the doctor’s, to the golf-cart-only gas station.
, The golf carts – some of which are customized to look like Model Ts, fire trucks, or Thunderbirds rescue-vehicles – tootle along at low speeds. Precious few of the 110,000 seniors in town ride bicycles: where motoring is easy, even if the motoring is on golf-cart paths, Americans drive.
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