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Originally Posted by dhdallas
I'd rather be in your mountains or on a beach, lake, river, or any natural setting. I am only here in TV because my wife insisted. This is not her opinion; she loves every little thing about it. For me though other than the warm winter weather, it sucks.
Driving anywhere is a pain. Way too much vehicle traffic and it will continue to get worse as they are continuing nonstop developing. Homes are crammed together & you can hear everything from next door - it can be as noisy as an apartment building. Heavy golf cart traffic is ridiculous and dangerous. I ride my bike on the cart paths and it is scary. Read the local .com newspaper for all the latest drunk cart driving accidents and crimes.
I am more prejudiced than most because I don’t play golf, I don’t like games or clubs, I don’t like to socialize, I don’t swim or like pools, and would much rather be around animals than people. I’ve been here 3 months and haven’t even needed or would use a TV ID card for anything. I prefer solitary pursuits, cycling, hunting, fishing, kayaking, reading, television, sitting on a beach, etc.
TV is a marvel of cookie-cutter overpriced homes in a town that reminds me of The Twilight Zone episode where a couple woke up in this picture perfect town only to find out everything in it was fake and they were in a giant being’s terrarium. The place is just plain weird.
Get outside TV and this central part of FL is pretty darn ugly. Swamps, brush & scrubs, ugly trees, trashy homes, dumpy house trailers with plenty of crime & drugs to go around. I carry a legally concealed handgun pretty much everywhere I go.
To each his own. As for me, I am counting the days until we can return to our lakefront home in PA.
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My opinion of the Villages is somewhat less hostile than yours, but I totally get what you're saying. HOWEVER - I found that by looking in the northern section of the Villages, we were able to find a home that even I would be willing to live in. We don't have "kissing lanais" up here. The homes are absolutely NOT cookie cutter up here. There are even a couple of neighbors with those gall-durn tacky pink flamingoes on their lawns, and I LIKE it. That's right, I LIKE knowing that my neighbors can enjoy a snicker of whimsy. And so can I. For me it's gargoyles. Some have ducks. One neighbor's yard has all kinds of "craft fair" kitch on the lawn. And some are meticulous and tasteful with nothing more risque than a potted fern.
We are a close neighborhood, but we also enjoy our privacy. There is rarely any golf cart noise, because we're on a loop that only connects to "civilization" on one end of it. And yet we're close enough to the postal station to walk (3/4 mile 1-way) and mix with civilization if we want to.
We're tucked away from the rest of the Villages here on the "Historic" side of 441, but close enough to party at the squares when the mood strikes.