[graciegirl]

When we first moved here we could buy shirts at Walgreens and Bealls Outlet with The Villages on it for peanuts.


Then it stopped. I was annoyed. My grandkids always would buy a couple to take home to friends.


Trademarks are trademarks. The Villages has become a big deal.


Again I say we have witnessed a family who has risked their own money time and time again, made a few mistakes but not many, corrected them, built a far better mousetrap and gave the public what they wanted and kept it clean and pretty and made a fortune.


Most of the grousing comes from jealously that we didn't or weren't smart enough to do that.


Now a family that worked hard is a huge successful business and for some that means that they are no longer nice people. All big successful businesses are nasty in the political vision of some folks.