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One of the posts above referred to TV as a new type of community. As such, it will have growing pains and changes. Some good, some bad. The thing I get from reading the original post, the article it grew from and LadyKathleen's response all seem to miss one big issue:

People are moving to TV in droves because that is the type of life they want. They are leaving their old lives behind, intentionally. Their old lilves where layer upon layer of government control and oversight and whatnot were generating an environment they were dissatisfied with in some way. I'm not saying that local government issues are what drives people to TV, but for better or worse, the developer is building a different type of community here, and people are not only interested, they are responding in an overwhelmingly positive way, both by relocating to TV, and by willing spending their money in TV.

A lot of the issue I hear here are similar to the complaints people have leveled at Disney for years, but in spite of them all, people still flock to Disney and spend their money there.

Bottom line, for me at least, is if I am spending my time and money, so long as I feel like I am getting my money's worth, its cool. No environment is perfect, and no government is perfect, but if, on balance, things are more heavily weighted on the positive side of things, smile and enjoy.

One thing that did bother me a bit was in LadyKathleen's original post where she asserts that the VHA is working against the residents' best interests by stating each point as "The VHA did not support the POA..." This strikes me as a sort of "if you're not with us you're against us" attitude that can be off-putting to readers. A more effective way to raise the points would have been to show how the POA's position was more beneficial and how the VHA's lack of support of that position was detrimental.