[Villages Kahuna]

As noted by Mark Morse in his speech to the VHA last week, 97% of the survey respondents rated The Villages as a great place to live! It was about the seventh year in a row that the results were 96-97% and about the 15th year in a row where satisfaction was well above 90% of those responding. Geez, something must be going right.

I'd guess that if the statisticians did their thing, that the "margin of error" would be awfully low. Why? Because 33% of all Villages homeowners participated in the survey. That's a huge response, almost unheard of by those taking such surveys.

So a few people can express their disatisfaction and distrust for the developer of this place. They have every right to be as grouchy and suspicious as they choose. But they are a tiny percentage of the people who live here. The huge majority of the people who live here couldn't be happier with Florida's Friendliest Hometown. Personally, I've placed our house on the "do not throw" list for delivery of the POA newspaper. I've got a lot better things to do with my time than waste it reading poorly written, unsubstantiated and heavily-slanted articles written by people unwilling to take responsibility for their writing by placing their byline on the articles.

By the way, does anyone really believe that the developer knew that sinkholes would occur and where...and then went ahead and built structures on that land? As noted in Mark Morse's speech, about 45% of The Villages is undeveloped--that is golf courses, nature preserves, wetlands, parks and open space. I guess I might ask whether it's a common sense suspicion that the developer knew where the sinkholes would occur and then went ahead and built something there anyway? That sure doesn't meet the "common sense" test as far as I'm concerned.