Hello Village Gal and Momesu.
I am kind of in the same boat as both of you. I am single and would move to TV tomorrow full time if I didn't have to work for a several more years
. I have lived in the Midwest all of my life -- born in Iowa, then moved to the Chicago area in 1979. My family is scattered -- one sister in Wisconsin, one sister near Cincinnati, and my dad is still in Iowa. So the thought of moving to TV without any immediate family is not a huge concern for me, as I have been 150 miles or more from family for many years. Village Gal and Momesu, I would recommend that you try a Lifestyle Preview Visit. I'm saving my Lifestyle Preview Visit for a year or two only because I believe that potential owners are limited in how many Lifestyle Preview Visits can be taken as I believe some people have used them as cheap vacations and don't plan on buying in TV. I will be renting a patio villa in the Village of Chatham for a week this July, and then I would also like to rent in a different village for a week in October. I would love to come down and rent for 2 weeks or 3 weeks (don't know how that would go over with my fairly new manager), but I'm afraid I would never go back to work after that. And I would love to rent for a week or two in the winter, but that is high season and short term rentals (2 weeks) don't seem to exist in TV from January through March.
Becoming a full time TV resident (a frog) does seem far away for me, but every day that passes hopefully is bringing me closer to the time when I can move to TV and leave my snow shovel and winter boots behind.
Good luck to both of you.
Laura