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Old 03-26-2009, 09:30 AM
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Hope you enjoyed your visit. My wife and I are coming for ours the first week of April.

It's funny how you found TVs. We also 'found' it almost by accident. We made a trip to Fl in the Ocala area in 2004 looking for potential retirement areas (I was taking some IT Security training in Tampa) but did not know about the Villages and ranged up and down the Ocala area for about two days. My wife was VERY down on moving to Fl for retirement because 1) didn't want to be that far from the kids (3), 2) was terrified we'd end up in an isolated community with nothing to do (my parents did this in Southern VA and moved back after 3 years in isolation).

My wife heard about TV through a friend at work and in 2006, when we had a Cruise leaving out of Tampa, we came in early and started looking around. TV was the last place we hit. We were at some of the communities around TV, which had very nice, relatively less expensive homes, but activities were few and far between. My wife remarked during one visit that "We've been here 45min and I have yet to see another woman." I was beginning to despair of any chance to settle in FL for my retirement, then we found TV. As we drove into TV we ended up at Spanish Springs, my wife looked around as we drove by the Town Square and said, "I love it! I'm here." The rest is history - the only thing that kept us from buying then was the beginning of the housing bubble bursting, by the time we got home, and had the house ready to go on the market, the values had dropped to make it impractical to sell.

Now we'll be buying late in 09 or early in 2010 carrying both mortgages until we officially retire in late 2012 (Too bad the world end Dec 21, 2012 - at least according to the Mayans - this would be a huge ripoff).
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