Topic - Editorial

The Villages app – to find your way around

Mar 31 2020 Updated May 3, 2023

The Weekly Source

1 min read

On a lighter note, the largest village in the world ‘The Villages’ in Florida with 110,000 residents, has just launched an app to help people ‘discover’ what the village has to offer – and not run out of electricity charge.

They quickly sold 30,000 at US$8.99.

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