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Originally Posted by Barborv
I didn't go through the 3 pages of comments. I read the first page. It's funny, but I always heard older folks when I was younger, asked to join the senior clubs back home, and their response would be.."I don't want to be with all those old people"! and I would always think, HELLO... you're old!!LOL My own mother would even say that! At this age now, you want a happy medium. I get it. Why I love The Villages is that you don't feel like you're at an old age community. I have visited Soooo many communities before buying in TV and some even felt like I was at a nursing facility. On the flip side, you also don't want a bunch of roudy teens, driving their parents golf carts and partying it up. But as far as the town squares, I would think most of the teens don't really want to be around us either!! LOL And someone mentioned the playgrounds in TV. being used by middleton residents. I'm sure more grandparents of TV will be bringing their grandchildren to those new playgrounds then the other way around. Look at it this way, maybe now the Villages will have to open Brownwood movie theater and think of the teenagers looking for part time jobs!
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People move to over 55 communities to be around others going through the same life stage and to embrace a new phase of life.
You can live in a regular suburb anywhere. But what makes TV special and attractive is being an active, over 55 community with amenities and activities geared towards active retirees.
I would hate to see the squares taken over by kid centered activities/entertainment - Baby Shark, Barney......I did my time with that, I thoroughly enjoyed raising my children but that phase of life is over. I would hate to see the square restaurants/shops catering to a younger crowd with bars staying open late and wild groups of young people partying it up in the street. I would hate to see TV rec centers, golf courses and pools become inundated with kids and young parents. Again, if you want to live in a regular suburb there are tons of options. What makes TV special is that it is geared towards 55+ retirees. Grandchildren visit but they don't live in TV. When kids actually live in a neighborhood, there are basketball goals in driveways, tricycles on the sidewalk, footballs being tossed in front yards (sometimes not very accurately). Bored tweens play the Ding Dong Ditch game, where they ring your doorbell at night and run off. They smash pumpkins in the street on Halloween. Sometimes they vandalize property. Last Sunday we had a group of kids randomly setting off a ton of fireworks late at night.
If we wanted to live in a regular suburb, we wouldn't move to TV.
As far as Middleton goes, I can see how that neighborhood would be good for the young working people in TV. I can't imagine living on an age restricted street with young children or teenagers and no other kids around. I get why that neighborhood is needed.