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Originally Posted by jimdecastro
When I was looking at TV, I asked my Dad about a month before he died about its size as a concern. His answer (paraphrased).
"It is not a 100,000 people in a city, it is 50 or so communities. You will know many of yours but not many 2-3 Villages away. In West Islip, you don't even know the guy down the block. Put another way, I lived in Brooklyn. But I didn't grow up in Brooklyn - or even Williamsburg. I grew up on Stockholm St."
Wise Man.
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I see your point, and I agree with it. One day a golfing buddy mentioned to me that viewed from the satellite images ,The Villages looks like a huge area all covered with similar looking homes , and all you can see is roofs.
I said, yeah, but I don't live up there. I live down here, in a neighborhood with trees. I grew up in a suburb of Cincinnati, and I lived on my street, and went to my school, in the northeast quadrant of Greater Cincinnati. I never went to the other suburban communities that existed on the western fringes.
Here in TV I live a 40 minute cart ride from Lopez, and an equal distance from Southern Oaks. I don't see myself needing to commute any farther than that to play golf. As they build courses farther away than Southern Oaks, I will play them only rarely, as a novelty, and probably drive a car. I'd treat it like a road trip.
I don't see a problem there.
I am a bit concerned about what seems to be a trend to build the common areas with less quality (e.g. the MMPs) and a system that I don't understand but according to Don Wiley's explanation, puts those of us south of 466 and north of 44 on the hook to maintain them when they fail. Not crazy about that, but in the bigger picture, a relatively small price to pay for the overall value I derive from living in TV.