[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by JerryLBell

We tried getting to see this but the complete lack of parking (other than parking golf carts along the road) put us off. As so many others have said, Sawgrass Grove parking is totally inadequate on any remotely busy day, much less a large event like this. My wife (who is WAY smarter than me) suggested for events like this that they use the Villages tour trolley busses to bus in folks from regional recreation centers or from "real" town squares.

Of course, you can start with complaints about this event and turn pretty quickly into complaining about the lack of new town squares in the south end of The Villages. They've nearly doubled the number of square miles included in The Villages and added how many tens of thousands of homes but only given hints about some day maybe possibly building a single new town square south of 44? And they've built a single shopping center south of 44 compared to how many are there north of 44? When we decided to leave our first house in The Villages and move to another one, we considered building in the south end but decided that it would be just too inconvenient compared to living in what used to be the south end (between 466A and 44). I mean, folks south of 44 are still waiting for the 7-Eleven to open up to actually have a gas station down there! And as much as I like the Fenney Grill and Cousin Willy's, there are only about 5 restaurants south of 44. It's kind of ridiculous. I don't mind all the new people and new houses, but I wish they still built all the facilities (golf courses, town squares, shopping centers, rec centers, etc.) before they built and sold all the houses and everybody moved in. But I guess that was Gary Morse vs. the next generation.

Good God, I sound like a crabby old timer, don't I? And I've only been here six years!

To start here is some info on the next town square.
Continuing The Dream: Volume 17

Plus.
Some thoughts on growth, development, and "Too big"