[ElDiabloJoe]

Originally Posted by Laker14

I have no hesitancy to tell people I live in The Villages. When I get a negative response I ask what they found objectionable during their visit. Of course, I've never come across anyone who has actually been here so they have to, typically with some sheepishness, admit that they'd never actually been here, so their opinions are based upon stories they'd heard or read.
I then invite them to have a serious discussion with me about the reality of TV, the good, the bad, the in-between...most people are really very interested to hear what it's really about, or at least, the opinion of one person who actually spends significant time here.

Ignorance breeds hatred. You are doing a fine job of remedying that, kudos! I feel the same way about firearms. So many people "hate" guns, but those same people know very little and have never had a personal need or use for them.

On a side note, with this being a decades long pervasive negative impression of The Villages (the swingers and STD rates), I am surprised someone as vested in the success of The Villages and with the resources to combat the negatives has not spent money on a top notch P.R. firm to combat the image. Maybe selling 10 houses a day is about their max output or a comfortable growth rate and they don't feel the need to widen the market?