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Originally Posted by cybrgeezer

The issue of who uses the facilities seems to be one of who pays the amenity fees. You all seem to feel – and rightly so – that if you have to pay, you should have exclusive rights to the facilities. No problem; in fact, it seems only fair.

But I have a question. Some time back, I posed this in an e-mail to the sales office as to whether it COULD be done. I received no answer. Now, I wonder how you feel about whether it SHOULD be possible:

How do you feel about people who live near The Villages paying the amenity fee for the right to use facilities and participate in activities? They would pay a fair fee (since on another thread about the fee it seems not to be standard throughout The Villages) in return for all the rights and privileges.

It seems that would alleviate everyone's objections to “outsiders” using pools, cart paths, etc., while allowing people who live nearby to not be excluded from the larger community, one that includes their 70,000 or so neighbors in TV.

I haven't seen anyone suggest this so far, so what do you all think?

Hi cybrgeezer,
Have you already purchased a home in TV? If not, do you think this would this still be your recommendation if you lived in TV?

I mean, who wouldn't love to buy near The Villages, and then for an amenity fee that is less than the cost of most country club memberships, be able to use all of the TV neighborhood facilities? Hmm, I'm just thinking, if we had done this, we could live in a nice subdivision without worrying about all non-neighborhood traffic. Indeed we could still have a neighborhood, while the poor suckers who lived in TV no longer would. They would be living in a heavily trafficked central Florida amusement park. Never mind that TV is a neighborhood planned community designed to have just enough facilities to profitably serve its residents. In this way, it is able to remain a neighborhood for those who choose to pay more for their homes to live here.

So I'm just wondering, if everyone, regardless of where they lived, could pay an amenity fee to use TV amenities, would you buy a house in TV, or would you buy one nearby?

I can understand you wanting to buying the golden eggs (amenities), absolutely. My question is whether you would actually buy the goose that laid the golden egg-- and then kill the goose?