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Originally Posted by Robin Donnelly

I've found the women in my neighborhood to be gossipy, bored, jealous and petty. In my particular neighborhood they dislike anyone younger than them and congregate with one another to the exclusion of anyone who refuses to gossip with them or they feel they can't manipulate. They have way too much time on their hands and try to make trouble for the ones they don't like. For example, someone called Community Standards to report a pergola we had put in, even though it was put in under code and approved. Of course when confronted, they all denied calling. Cowards. Another neighbor called surveyors instead of talking to us to report an encroachment onto their property and then blamed us for the mistake. When the landscaping guy asked why she didn't talk to us about it first, she yelled, "I don't talk to anyone." Liar. She just doesn't talk to us. We had the encroachment fixed before we even received a letter but knew from the flags in the yard and then eyeballing the mistake that there was a mistake on the part of the landscaping company. It was no big deal, but THE ENTIRE neighborhood had to come over and stand there and gawk at the area and proceed to whisper about it. Like we did something wrong on purpose to her. Geez. All these problems started on the day I decided I'd had enough of the neighborhood narcissist and put her in her place about her passive aggressiveness towards me. Now, I'm the bad guy and she has had the ENTIRE neighborhood exclude us on her behalf. They have become her flying monkeys without their knowledge. I know high schoolers more mature than these people.

My advice to you: If you do move here, rent first. I wish we would have done that first. Second, tell NO ONE anything you don't want repeated or used against you later. Third, find out who your neighborhood narcissist is and then RUN THE OTHER WAY. Too bad I didn't heed my own inner voice and avoid her the second she knocked on my door every morning at 9am the second we moved in. She wasn't trying to get to know me, she was collecting information to go talk about me later. I've learned now to never second guess my gut in a feeling like that again. Live and learn. And just so you know, I've talked to other women that were here alone that said they were given a hard time merely because they were the single one in the neighborhood. They said, apparently if you are single, they think you want their big, fat, balding husbands... LOL! :P

Even before all the issues with the neighbors, let's be honest... you are in the middle of a BIG COW PASTURE here with little to do other than line dance and drink at the squares. Not our bag. Other issues I have are: You will be hard pressed to find any salon that does fashionable haircuts/color, I had to go to Orlando. Also, get used to driving to Orlando, an hour away to do anything even remotely different than hanging out at the square. Our neighborhood is asleep by 6pm. Boring. The clothes shopping here is geared towards seniors even at Belk's, TJMaxx and Marshall's. The restaurants here leave a lot to be desired. And just the mere fact that most everyone here is bored and looking for excitement is exhausting. Proceed with caution. I can NOT wait to move the hell out of here. My husband calls it the "open-aired nursing home." LOL! It's a great place to visit for a week's vacation. We don't want to live here.
Good luck. I wish you the best.
Robin

So sorry for your experiences. It's a shame to have to feel so much negativity.

In my opinion The Villages (and, in fact, The World) is filled with interesting, kind, caring people. If you can not find one, then Be One ... because like attracts like.

Good luck to you in your future endeavors.