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Originally Posted by Gretch298
I have lived in the Villages for 3 months now, what a wonderful place. I found a part time job that was a real eye opener. I have been treated like I have personally ruined your day because the store is out of your sale item. I smile and say I am sorry. I truely am sorry believe it or not. Last week when leaving my job I came out to a nasty dent in the side of my car. No one bothered to come in to the store to "look" for the owner of the car they hit. I hope they slept well that night, I didn't. I am your neighbor who smiles and says hello so when the lawn people come to do your lawn why do you allow them to park all over my lawn and block me in my driveway? I love it here and want to try hard to learn the ways but I think I am missing something? Any ideas?  |
You mention moving here just three months ago - unfortunately that would have brought you to The Villages at probably the worst time of the year. We are at capacity during January, February and March with seasonal owners and renters and our numbers swell to an almost impossible size and people get very testy about silly little things - It's rather like the experiments scientists have done with putting too many rats into too small a space, they end up eating their own! We are not quite at that point, but the year round residents are getting very close to that point!
Give it another two weeks and a good third or more of the people here will be on their way back to their primary homes up North and sanity will return to TV. Then in late May and early June the seasonal people will be gone and this heaven on earth will be ours, all ours, until about November when it will start all over again. You will be able to get into any restaurant without waiting in line, it's a pleasure to shop without being shoved and pushed, the driving gets far more relaxed - both golf cart and automobile, and we settle into the genteel southern way of living.
We have been full time residents for the past seven years and we love it, we love it more and more with each passing year and I am sure you will too once you have adjusted to the influx of winter visitors. I saw a great bumper sticker just last week "If they are called Snowbirds why can't we shoot them".