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Originally Posted by outlaw
I bought here about two years ago when the "build out" was a few months away. I enjoy being able to go to the town squares and have two-fers. On many occasions, we are treated to live entertainment in the form of a street fight exhibition. I have learned many self defense techniques from these exhibitions (free, of course). Then I can drive my golf cart home without worrying about a nuisance DUI like with an automobile. I also like standing in line for 45 minutes to play water volleyball. I have met many nice people standing in lines waiting for my free activity that only costs $150 per month whether or not I use the activities. I do enjoy the free golf, although the 2 hour rounds on a 9 hole executive course are a little long. Fortunately, I can sit in my golf cart on each tee for 5 minutes watching the "beginners" hit their third shot from the bunkers and walk out the other side, stepping over the rake. I pay another $150 per year so I can use my golf cart on these "free" courses that are also maintained with my $150 per month amenity fees. I have lost 10 pounds since I moved here, primarily from skipping dinners when arriving at a restaurant only to be told there is a 45 minute wait to be seated. But it was fun to drive my golf cart to the restaurant after having a few drinks to take the edge off of my 2 hour 9 hole golf round earlier that day. As for doctors, there are many. Just not too many from US medical schools, but if you enjoy other perspectives and alternative medicine, this is the place for you. I am still looking for a primary care physician that takes medicare and is a graduate from a top 50% US medical school. I have found recommended doctors who graduated from medical schools in Peru, Poland, Nigeria, Mexico, England (this school was under investigation as a diploma mill), South Florida (at least it's in the US), Spain, Philippines, China, etc. The good news is that I can drive to all these doctors in my golf cart! How cool is that? And anyway, if you get really sick, you can always go back north to your previous doctors. So come on down. If you are from a big crowded city, and are used to waiting in lines, you will love it here. If you live in a high cost area, you will think it is very cheap to live here.
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First off, 'paragraphs' should be your friend.
Second, there's a counterpoint to many of your observations. Fights at the squares, the only ones I've heard about were the woman line-dancers at Spanish Springs. I don't line dance, really don't dance much at all, and most times when there is trouble at SS, the Lady Lake Police will step in, or at least give you a ticket for going 26 in a 20.
Standing in line 45 minutes for an activity, doesn't happen at MVP. Of course it's not free, but it's the best $100 a month I pay for my wife and myself. There's plenty of classes and equipment for everyone to find something to do.
The 'beginners' at the executives holding up the regular golfers, don't you know the regular golfers are at the championship courses. We leave all the execs for the hackers. You have to spend a little money to get what you really want.
Long waiting lines for dinner. It's never happened to us. Then again, we never eat dinner out. We eat lunch out at least 3 to 5 times a week. It's cheaper, it's when I'm the hungriest, less customers, you have the rest of the day to burn it off.
The problem with doctors isn't just a Villages Health situation. My first VA doctor at the Villages VA almost killed me. He took me off of my Plavix (blood thinner) medication. He said, after 18 months you don't have to take Plavix anymore after getting a stent. He didn't know they have two kinds, a metal stent which is what he was talking about and a chemical stent, which is what I have and requires Plavix the rest of my life. My second Villages VA doctor was a 6'6" red hair woman from the Ukraine, but she was actually good but had to return to her homeland. The third and current VA doctor is from India and knows very little about anything I have a problem with. I usually have to do my internet research so when I see him, I know what to ask for.