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Originally Posted by SukiChu
Thanks to all of you who replied.......It is going to be a hard decision --- and we haven't even made it down there yet for a preview.......
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Suggestion: Don't decide anything until you have come for a lifestyle preview stay or stay with friends/relatives. Most of us have given up on trying to describe the singular beauty that is the community of The Villages. There really is NO place like it.
When I miss an ear of sweet corn or vine-ripe tomatoes we grew, I just think about the hardship of bitter cold with wind that puts the wind chill far below zero for days; the lack of seeing sunlight for weeks on end; the skyrocketing heating fuel bills; the daily possibilities of slipping and falling on ice and cracking your head open or breaking bones/joints while fighting osteoporosis; never being able to walk outside barefoot for 8 months at a time; needing a 4-wheel-drive vehicle or tow truck to get going to work at 5:30 a.m; snowblowing the driveway for an hour only to have the beginning section filled in again when you finish the last section......repeat last task again...repeat last task again...hoping to be able to get to work in the morning...
The corn and tomato thoughts fade real fast!