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Originally Posted by The Villager II
One way to look at it, thousands of buyers in The Villages paid the extra cost of living here just because of the Kids rule. It would be a slap in the face to every one of those folks if one exception was granted. To change any rule so controversial after the fact is a very very slippery slope. Keep it just like it is and enforce it. I would rather see my fees go toward compensating the loss of money for someone that had exceptional circumstances rather than bend a firm rule.
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Now, I'm just curious. Would you or anyone else say that the large majority of folks who buy in TV only buy in for the lack of children allowed?
Or would you say, that it's just one of the nice things about being in any 55+ community for those who loved their own kids, their grandkids but prefer a quieter lifestyle.......or neighborhood in their mature years....which I can relate to.
How do TV residents truly feel about the visiting grandchildren of neighbors?
School vacations come around every few months it seems and I would think April would be a prime time to visit the old folks.......plus summer vacation.
But that would be when everyone returns to the north, correct?
I did read Leisureville awhile back........our adult kids seemed shocked by it as did the author who couldn't understand why his neighbor across the way, who by the way, had no children......was so happy to leave a neighborhood up north with children.
The author felt that children enriched the neighborhood and that the older population certainly enriched his child's life.
We can vouch for that as when we were raising our family, we had neighbors who were like additional grandparents to all of us. We would entertain them in our homes and they would have all of us over for dinner and parties.
We miss them all now that they are gone.
Would anyone care to answer this question? How many child lovers do exist in TV? Besides Gracie.
(versus say how many truly would prefer never to see a youngster on their street).......thanks in advance.