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Old 03-09-2012, 10:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Pturner View Post
Hi mgm444,
Another factor is that new villages tend to have lots of neighborhood activities as everyone in the Village is... well, new and anxious to meet people.

As the particular Village matures and its residents get involved in many of the zillion things there are to do in TV, those residents tend to build their social calendars more around people who participate in the same activities and less just in the hood. So hood activity diminishes somewhat.

Therefore, the answer depends not only upon whom you ask, but sometimes upon when.
Last Saturday my wife and I went to check on a house in La Reynalda for friends who are moving here from NJ. We'd like them to be in our neighborhood of Bonita and become part of our tight social circle, but they want a more inexpensive house preferably with no bond so that they can keep their NJ home.

While there looking at the home, a young woman in her early 50's, maybe, chatted with us and told us "I don't know about Bonita, but La Reynalda is the best village there is; the people here are so friendly and fun". She's only lived in that older village about a year and a half, she told us, and she's been accepted and made good friends.

So P, I guess any village can be what you make it.
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