[AnonChick]

I got lost enough in my week's visit last week, to be able to run my golf cart into the wall of just about every rec center and down the steps into every pool in the Villages. I can assure you there are plenty north of 466. However frustrating it may be to only -have- a week, and be instructed that it takes at -least- a month to learn your way around...and spend most of your travel time being lost...it was actually the absolute best way in the world to see all the neighborhoods.

Eventually I stopped trying to find the shorter route to Sumter Landing from St. Charles, and just took Bailey to Buena Vista and hung a right into the Square. But all that time trying to find Bonita, and going through Bailey til it changed its name, looking for Stillwater - was actually great for sightseeing.

I felt like SUCH a voyeur too - some of you have such nice pools in your screened lanais! It's because of people like me that I'd never want the back of my house facing open space, heh. Am I the only "finely aging brandy" in the world who prefers to enjoy lounging in her own home, sans the housecoat? I'd feel as though I had to be fully dressed with my face completely made up for the public, before I even opened the curtains for the day. To me, that isn't a retirement lifestyle choice. It's what you do when you have to be at work in 20 minutes.

Why is it, that the developers decided that senior citizens are not worthy of privacy? It's as though they said, "You can have privacy, but no yard. Or, you can have a yard, but no privacy. We'll toss you a bone and let you put up shrubs but if they're the wrong kind or the neighbors can't see your poker hand through the branches, you're SOL."