[TVWannabe]

I made my initial post on Thursday evening. Now, I log on Saturday morning hoping that someone has replied, and I see 22 replies. You guys are awesome! Thanks so much. In addition to the wonderful responses here, I also got a PM that was a scathing warning of the evils of buying in TV.

I spend way too much time daydreaming of my future life in The Villages. I check the new house listings at least twice a week—and I don’t even plan to move before the summer of 2010 at the earliest! However, my wife and I still have a few apprehensions. Here’s our biggest one, and I’m sure others have probably discussed it here: If the golf courses are crowded with a population of 70,000, how’s it going to be with 100,000? Are there many more courses under construction or planned? Also, we visited in July. Some here have estimated that the community has as many as 40% snowbirds so the population might have been only 42,000 when we visited. I can’t imagine what it would be like with two and a half times as many people.

It’s funny, because the town we live in now, Brentwood, TN, is a very fast-growing town. It has changed so much in the eight years we’ve lived here. All of the rolling pastures and farmland have become new subdivisions. It’s like once we had ours, I wanted them to lock the doors. Now, here I am, wanting them to do the same in The Villages. Of course, people like me and the other TVWannBe’s are the problem, but in spite of that, it seems current Villagers are always friendly and welcoming. Thanks for that.

I do plan to check out Spruce Creek—both of them (Thanks, Bryan.) I’ve been in touch with Sun City Center and asked the lady why their website and DVD are so inadequate compared to the expert marketing at TV. She said she’d never seen TV’s products, and I got the impression she was WCI’s point of contact for all of their communities across Florida. Go figure.