The Best Independent Living Communities in Levy County, FL

"The Village at Gainesville is extremely beautiful, but it's also expensive. It's more expensive than any of the other ones that we went to. However, it's worth it to live there. They have everything you could think of. They have all the group clubs that my husband would just die to be a part of. They have plenty of things that I'm very interested in. Life there would have been very nice. It's very close to home, and so we wouldn't have had to move and all of that. They had invited us to some different events that they had there. They had a luau, which was fun. We went one time for a luncheon. It's beautiful. The place is gorgeous. It's huge. It's got everything from apartments to beautiful condos. It's nice. The young lady that gave us the tour calls us personally to invite us to events that they're having. She fell in love with us, and we were with her. I even told her that since she just got married, when she got around to having a baby, since I was a nanny for 22 years, I would look after her baby for her. She is a sweetheart. The food is fabulous. They had three restaurants, a bistro, and a fine dining restaurant that they were getting ready to open. The properties are just beautiful. They had a pizza place where they would fire your pizza in a pizza oven right in front of you. It's really nice."

"I toured Plantation Oaks Assisted Living and Memory Care. I would have preferred to be there because it's a smaller community and a more convenient location for me than down here in Gainesville, but they were a little pricey. They had a very nice facility, they're a smaller community. There were only about 70 people there and I liked that about it over the size of where I'm currently at. It's more assisted living and they have a memory care unit for people that have problems with their memory. They are a lot more hands-on as far as assisting you, and if it could be independent living, that appealed to me too. The staff was great. I liked primarily their location and their size and it would be easier to remember everybody's name. They have very nice apartments. They gave me an apple pie for just taking the tour. The dining area looked to be adequate. It looked like it would accommodate everybody in the building without any problem. It was very clean. It did not smell antiseptic. It did not smell like an old folks home. It was very nice."