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Originally Posted by twoplanekid
Wow. Greetings and welcome to the Villages as a full time resident. Although our pod was unpacked last week, we are still trying to locate places to store our stuff that should have remained in Ohio. It’s hard to make changes to accommodate a different lifestyle. As I will now have time to do things here, I want to see and experience everything that the Villages have to offer.
I had to laugh at the news article in my post # 39 that describes playing golf as “too hard, too expensive, too time-consuming, too elitist, too sexist and too racist.” We aviators face those same accusations.
One person says in post # 47 “It would be nice if we could all just get along and recognize and respect each other's desires. “ I would hope that would be true for both golfers and non-golfers.
Everyone seems to have a passion or opinion about life in The Villages which is a good thing as long as we can respect others who have differing views. I would hope we can welcome all who want to live in this great place we call the Villages, America’s Friendliest Hometown.
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Two Plane. Perhaps you should try harder to see things the way they are and see how many decisions have been pondered and tried over time to get to this almost perfect appeal in a place where we don't vote
on every little detail. Most of us do not want a regular community run like Ocala or Orlando. We are satisfied with this large CDD and the way it's run.
It would be good if YOU respected the differing views too. I very much doubt what you are presenting would have wide spread appeal.
We all moved from where things were run differently. We all moved where there was better this or that; traffic, water bills, teaching hospitals, pizza, corn, tomatoes, and unaccented speech, but overall the lack of snow and the clean and beautiful spaces are very appealing as is the company of people who have five decades or more of experiences to share.
I really have not met anyone who was lied to or pressured to move here. The same geo-climate is in Stonecrest and Tampa has a newspaper with the other political slant. Orlando has Disney, crime and kids. We were all free to decide to live here because most of us did not look at it as a wonderful opportunity to cause CHANGE.
Welcome Rick. I hope that you and the missus join the Ohio clubs, all three of them, visit the Cincinnati Club, and enjoy your fellow aviators. Coffee pot is always on at our house. We may disagree on some things but we will find much common ground as Buckeyes. I sincerely hope you will find happiness here.
Grace Gantner