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Old 01-26-2012, 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by eweissenbach View Post
Since I don't yet own a home in the villages, perhaps I am not qualified to respond ...... but I will. My wife and I have lived in 14 different places in our 44 years of marriage, and I miss something about every place we have lived. That being said, I have always found something I liked better about every place we moved to as well. I cannot imagine moving anyplace and not missing anything, whether it be something about the house, the friends and neighbors, the kids and grandkids, the scenery, some stores or resturaunts, or a combination of these or other things. The secret to happiness is not that you miss things in the past, it's that you always find something new to enjoy and make you happy where you are. It seems sad to me, and virtually impossible, that anyone would miss nothing about their past life experiences. Every time we come to TV we have a ball and enjoy all the things there that are unavailable where we live, the weather, the squares, the resturaunts, the shopping, the people of our age, the golf, the swimming etc. etc. We will one day own a home in the villages, hopefully this year, but we will also have a home in Missouri where we will split time, being close to our three kids and six grandkids. We think that is the best of all worlds for us, but I still kind of miss my lake cottage in Minnesota.
I moved down from the Minneapolis area and I miss so much about it. It was a great lifestyle and a wonderful place to rear a family. Great sports town. Great weekend events. Great shopping great people. Minneapolis/St Paul and surroiunding cities would not let their towns deteriorate. Miss my big house
But we all seem to remeber the good and forget the bad.

so what would I say itfI moved from The villages to somewhere else? Great weather, great golf, great people nice house dancing at the square. Hmmmmm