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Originally Posted by KathieI
I totally agree, Larry, and a bunch of friends have been talking about this lately. I remember when I first started to visit TV, people always waved to you - so much that your arm got tired from waving back... I remember giving out name cards to keep connecting with new people, I remember everyone walking around with a smile, not a frown, and with their heads up not looking down. Things have really changed here, we're not sure why, but we're assuming its the overcrowdedness (such a word?) and lack of additional roads and facilities to accommodate so many people. Whatever it is, I'm not looking forward to this winter with the awful crowds in restaurants and on the roads. This makes me extremely sad because I also loved this paradise, but unfortunately, I'm not feeling like its a paradise any longer. SAD! 
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Thanks Kathy. I'm not a naysayer and neither is Kathy. We are both realists.
I've been here since 2004. It is just a fact that the population has grown and grown fast. My wife and I are in a ton of sports and clubs. (Enjoy them in the summer) Winter is getting tougher and tougher. The more active you are, the more you notice this.
A few examples but there are many more.
Check the statics on golf cart accidents, and car accidents.
People are being turned away from classes. My wife's exercise class has people come an hour early to get a number and stand in a line with that number for an hour to be to let in when the class starts. People who get there a half an hour before class get turned away by the dozens because the class is at capacity. That goes on in all the popular classes. Now that's overcrowding.
I play in three major sports and its getting so you get no play time because there is just too many guys, now that's overcrowding.
Golf and tee times...we play outside the Villages in the winter.
Hours of wait time at every restaurant and sometimes you just are told you can't be served.
Yes Kathy, everybody use to wave and said Hi. We had great times and everybody was your friend. Not anymore. We don't even go to the special events at the squares anymore because it is so crowded. Our friends feel the same way.
I know this is the honeymoon board.( mainly new people here) You are suppose to just love the Villages and all is perfect. Well, it was a much more perfect a few years ago.