It is absolutely amazing that in 60+ posts re: an indoor pool is coming...... not one person seems to know that one of the BIG draws in The Villages advertising, when we were considering moving here, was the big indoor heated pool in the building where Lake Rehab facility is located on 441/27. It was a beautiful facility and hugely popular. Many water aerobic classes were held there and I am here to tell you, when it was announced that The Villages was closing that pool, hundreds of people threatened to leave the Villages. I don't know if any of them did or not. This was all about the same time that the big field, with the sign "Oh give me a home" and all the beautiful buffalo that we loved were taken from us. As were some of the best restaurants with dance floors closed and renovated into rec centers. In short..... what you are all witnessing in the present has been going on from the late "90s. You might as well make up your mind that a "change is gonn'a come" because it is. And I might add, for all the changes I have seen in over 16 years..... I would still not leave this place. I don't care how much money the Morse family makes and I am not privy to the business decisions made or the reasons why...... all I know is that they have provided my husband and I a beautiful, safe, friendly (or at least it used to be) community in which to reside and we are thankful for same.
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