Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

The pizza HERE sucks. Most people living in The Villages are northerners, and in fact there's a pretty significant New Jersey/New York/New England contingency here. We all attest to the fact that the pizza here sucks.

That's not the criteria to determine whether or not The Villages is a good place to live though. So it's possible that a person can be happy living here, where the pizza sucks. The attitude that's most harmful, is the one that says northerners who think the pizza here sucks, are bad influences, or somehow negatively affect the entire community.

I'd say the whole "you have a differing opinion and you're not afraid to express it" hatred is what negatively affects the entire community.

The houses and landscaping and yards and layouts of some areas in the Villages might all be interchangeable and conform into one nice neat perfect plastic photograph, but the people who live in them are as varied as the stars in the sky. That is a good thing, and people should celebrate those differences instead of complaining that they exist.

In short: the pizza here really does suck. AND the Villages has plenty of things to attract people from all over the world.