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Originally Posted by mermaid72
Poaching on his own land? Oh, that makes it ok, sort of like doing a crime is fine if you are in your own space! LOL
Now I have a couple of potential questions about the Villages, and am very interested to know about a place before I would move there. Who wouldn't? I'm sure you & everyone else who moved down checked the place out first. I want to live in a place where I am comfortable with, for lack of a better word, the ambiance. This extends to the developer as well.
Unfortunately, I have read, on these boards, many comments about liberals & their politics; about ethnicity, and generalities about those less fortunate than the middle class. This last episode concerning a creep (developer) who thought nothing about cutting off the legs of an animal so he could get a better ego photo op was really disturbing. All this gives me a lot to think about. However, I was pleased that most of the comments here showed that the residents were very upset about his actions.
I really appreciate the information that I glean from here, and enjoy reading all the comments.
As for my eating habits, we live out in the country, neighbor farmers here supply the food we don't grow ourselves, I know how it is raised. I have a pretty clear conscience. My dietary habits have nothing to do with some bubba poacher who has too much money & no sense of what is right or wrong. We do not hunt either, but as long as it is done legally, and humanely and with the intent to eat, it is acceptable.
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Mermaid. It is important for you to know that the government here is a CDD so that people moving here are not able to change how things are run. There is no voting on whether we have a club house here or a golf course there are what goes on anywhere here. I am very happy with how things are run but some people have issues with yard ornaments not being allowed without permission, that you cannot fence in your yard and that there are no indoor pools and about dogs being allowed to go to the squares and about dogs pooping at the mail drops and other such things. AND you cannot vote to change any of those things.
You also need to know that well over half of people that live here are Republican and the paper has Republican editorials. The people invited to speak at the square and who come for book signings are mostly conservative Republicans. Democrats are not invited to do so.
There are many here who are very comfortable financially and are wonderful folks. There are those who haven't as much money and those people are wonderful folks. There are millionares living in villas and people having difficulty making ends meet living in Premiers. We have saints and sinners, famous people and ordinary people like me.
If that is an ambiance that doesn't seem comfy to you than I ask you to think and think again.
There are a good many people here who enjoy this place and don't share the politics but I sense that the unhappiness of some who post on here is because they do not like the politics of the developer and of the majority of residents.
Politics aren't something that guide me in my friendships and associations but a lot of people of a certain age seem to be more apt to choose friends because of political leanings.
That is my take.
I personally think it is the happiest, most wonderful and friendliest place I have ever lived.