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Originally Posted by Martian
I think you misunderstood
It's like buying and moving in and then asking if there is a roof. Would you just assume there is a roof? Would you assume thre is good water? Would you assume there is anything when spending what amounts to the largest ?purchase most people make.
My point was why buy in the villages before you know what you are buying. Quality of construction was a number one concern when we were looking into purchasing. Asking after moving in if the homes are built well, seems a bit too late, whether there is a hurricane coming or not.
I don't feel that is condescending at all.
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I definitely misunderstood and apologize. There are definitely things I, as a lifelong northerner, would not have even thought to ask about til after I had already decided to move to the Villages.
The lovebug issue is one - we don't have them up north, and I would never have thought to even ask about it, until reading posts here and seeing an actual infestation INSIDE one of the homes we looked at last September.
Another would be visibility in the golf cart tunnels. Until driving through one in the Villages, I didn't even know they existed, let alone wonder whether or not visibility inside them is difficult or that one's golf cart needs to be specially equipped to handle them.
The smell of the water when you get your car washed after driving through love bugs...never, ever, ever. Not ever, in a million years would I have ever thought to ask about that. And I didn't ask about it. The single-most disgusting smell, worse than when I went to summer camp and had to take my turn cleaning the latrines.
And then to find out that this is what the entire neighborhood smells like at 6AM when everyone's sprinklers go off...if I had known then - but I didn't know to ask because this kind of thing just isn't a thing in the north. It's a foreign concept to us. It's like when someone comes up north and doesn't know to ask about snow tires or all-weather radials.