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Originally Posted by Uberschaf
After this post started I left my home in Pine Hills to purchase some gas at the Colony Shell and checked out the very large parking lot that the new Walmart neighborhood market has. After five years in The Villages I still see some cutting The Villages down.This is normal after leaving your home town and moving here among strangers. Sometimes people say to me this is not like Chicago or NYC or Minneapolis but it's our home now and we have to make this work. Please try to put aside your differences and let's try to make this our home away from home. Sometimes we don't understand how people are in different parts of this beautiful country.Sometimes they don't get our jokes (or humor) but it is all in good faith. Sometimes I look around and I wonder how I got to where I am, with great friends and their families playing golf and so full of life that I have never seen or never paid attention to until now in my busy life that I had before I moved here. I agree with Grace.The people run this piece of heaven know their stuff and as my old friend John said "It don't get much better than this"
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"the people who run this place know their stuff"
Well in my humble view if they did they would have built bike trails that were designed solely for bike riders. The MMP would not be MMP's because only golf carts would be allowed. Pedestrians would have nature trails.
Growth would have been better managed because all overbuilding does is over crowd and over crowding causes congested roads, businesses, etc, and critter over populations. Home price ranges would not be so far extended. It would have truly been a gated community. It would have had a Homeowner Association that had some real decision making power...well that is an iffy issue.
People who seem hell bent on defending TV also seem hell bent on defending the Developer, and they appear to do so in a tone and manner of taking the high moral ground I don't believe either has to be defended as both speak for themselves.
My view is that of a consumer, tax payer, amenity fees payer and my focus with the Developer et al is transactional because its all about business and business is business and sentimentality results in poor negotiations.
Indeed this is a decent place not the worse not the best
and I do my part with the people I know to make it pleasant. Again this is an observation, an opinion and not a complaint.
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