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Originally Posted by NYBob
We'll be heading to TV this coming week and spending a few days in a hotel to look things over. Just wanted to ask for suggestions as to what we should do to make the best of our time there.
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We did the same thing in November 2015.
We were coming to Florida to visit St. Augustine, where we had our first date in 1970, and we decided to stop in the Villages for three days.
We stayed at the Hampton Inn near Spanish Springs. We walked around Spanish Springs, drove down to Lake Sumter Landing, and took a trolley tour of the new area south of 466A. We drove thru one village - Palo Alto - got lost, found our way out, and have never gone back.
Everywhere we went - Starbucks, Panera, Red Sauce (where my wife got really sick from the food) - we saw people like us having a good time. We though we could fit in here.
At the visitor center, we got some brochures with pictures and prices of the homes, and realized we could afford a house here. We went back to Northern Virginia, got our house ready for sale, sold it in May 2016, and moved to The Villages the next day. We moved into a new house in October and that is where I am sitting as I write this.