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Old 01-30-2009, 06:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Dirigo View Post
Graciegirl,

What had changed in TV that has been discussed on TOTV?

Just wondering...

Dirigo

Just over three weeks to our visit!
I knew someone would nail me on this...lol.

When I first started looking at houses on line, I was struck by the fact that most but the high priced had rinkydink light fixtures, almost all of the same kind, mostly brass, which was out of fashion, and there were complaints about it here. Now you see more variety, most in silver, instead of brass, really upgraded. There was some discussion about The Villages furniture stores, although wonderful and very quick to provide unheard of services, like a loaner bed for incoming new residents in a new home, still didn't have a lot of variety of lower priced furniture. Now that is changed with Southern Lifestyles in Spanish Springs changing to "something direct" with lines like Broyhill and Flexsteel that are more affordable, but still very nice. When there was a lot of conflict and angst on TOTV over a street being made unavailable except to residents and others not allowed to cut through, there was a very large meeting about it at Colony Cottage, and the street was once again available for all to use. (Not sure that is a valid argument, maybe that is how issues are handled all of the time). There was discussion of the different names for "The Village Watch" in different counties and now they are all called the same thing.

Can someone help me here? I know that there have been discussions about rats near a pool and pool furniture in need of updating and those things have been resolved apparently. Maybe by other means, and not just because TOTV'rs were talking about it.

On the minus side, there was a huge outcry on TOTV about the buffalo being removed from their enclosure, never to return, and yet they still left for greener pastures. (There was a safety issue, to be fair)