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Originally Posted by pooh
I've lived here for 5 years this week as a matter of fact, and I, too still am thrilled when I am out and about. I wave. Sometimes people don't wave back, but what the heck, maybe they will the next time someone waves at them. Did people wave at others in the communities they came from? Maybe, but then again, maybe not. Is it more crowded? Yes it is, but I've lived in areas that were terribly crowded in the summer and other areas that were crowded in the winter. Guess one just gets used to it and makes adjustments. It's a large community and over time, things do change and either we make adjustments of some sort, or ......
I don't attend some of the classes that are crowded so I don't have that frustration. Even though there's lots of traffic, it's not at all like traffic in cities many of us worked in and lived in. We can always use a golf cart as an alternative to our cars.
TV is a beautiful community, well laid out. Traffic has increased in our community, but as our community grows, so do the surrounding communities. Not all of the traffic is necessarily our own. Restaurants are crowded seasonally...heck, it was the same in communities everyone came from. Trying to eat out on the weekends wasn't easy...restaurants were crowded!
Things are always changing, here and where we lived. Everyone wants peace, quiet, the good old days. Here we have a chance for peace and quiet, but sometimes the good old days were better in our memories than they were in reality.
Everyone wants something different in their retirement years. Here I've found exactly what I want. A beautiful community with many opportunities for fun, learning, physical activity, making friends, enjoying wonderful neighbors who are like family....that's a special blessing when so many of us are so far away from our own families. I'm happy to be a member of TV community.
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You have expressed my sentiments better than I could. Me, I still wave.
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Originally Posted by Trish Crocker
Maybe I'm naive but it seems to me that if I don't want to wait in line at a restaurant, I can always eat at home or go outside of the villages. What about eating at different times? Are the restaurants always lined up or can I go for lunch at 2:00? It's been my experience that most people react to how others treat them, is it possible that some of the people in TV that have lived there a while are projecting their attitude and resentment to others? When you first move into an area, everyone is a stranger and the tendency is to try to make friends...once you have been there a while, you no longer have the need to accumulate more friends, you are quite content with the status quo..therefore you may not make the friendship efforts that you have in the past. When this occurs, you subconsciously miss the 'friendliness' that was there originally, when in all actuality you are partially responsible for it happening. If you want to test this theory, next time you are out and about, pretend you are new there...greet people you don't know with the same enthusiasm you used in the beginning...see if there is a difference. I can't wait to get down there...I will be a grinning, waving fool!  |
Excellent points, Trish.
Another point to consider is that having the best and most amenities can be a double-edged sword. Of course more people want to live there! One could move to a community with fewer amenities and might not face overcrowding-- but they wouldn't have restaurants on site (as an option), free live music any ole night they choose, as many golf courses to play, as many sports, art classes, clubs, etc. Nor could businesses here thrive and stay viable if we were all able, as we might like, to close the door behind us.
So yes, there's a price to pay for having the best and most amenities. I know I can't shut the door behind me and keep TV the size it was when I purchased here. So the question is, are the beauty, the wonderful friendships, the cart paths and ample amenities worth the seasonal crowding. For me, the answer is a resounding yes. But it's a question all of us can answer only for ourselves.