We looked into this. Two accounts with the seasonal hold thing only works if you have a relatively fixed schedule. For snowbirds who come to the Villages once a year for several months each winter it works great. For part time residents like us, who come to the Villages several times throughout the year, whenever we can get away from our responsibilities up north, it doesn’t work. You can’t simply turn your services on and off about 10 times per year for two or three weeks at a time. We have the full triple bundle with Comcast up north. When in the Villages we have xfinity mobile phone service with unlimited data. We can make our phones WIFI hotspots and use our tablets for basic computer stuff like checking e-mails, making t-times and dinner reservations, booking our Southwest boarding number, checking TOV, etc.. Our service is too slow for streaming. For television we put in an Antenna and get several free TV stations from Orlando and occasionally watch DVD’s. We have accumulated a library of about 100 movies on DVD for about 50 cents a piece at Estate sales. The only time I miss having cable television is when there is a Patriots game that is not on free TV, so I go to Gator Dockside in Spanish Springs and watch the game. We find there is so much fun stuff to do while we are at our Villages home, we never have enough time to do everything we want without wasting time on a computer or watching TV. Plus, we have learned that the occasional digital detox is a good and healthy thing.
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