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We are snowbirds -- for now, and soon hope to be snowflakes. This was our first year to be here in Feb and Mar., and as I have said before I was actually amazed how little congestion we experienced. We have been in TV in April the prior two years, and we expected a real hassle this time, but found traffic manageable, resturaunts usually easily accessable, and the squares hopping, but not overly crowded. I suppose people who live here year-round, and compare it to summer and fall, find it somewhat troubling, but in our frame of reference it was all good. As for the original question, whether it was all we expected, yes and so much more. Who could anticipate a place quite like this? I don't think anyone has previously seen or experienced anything like TV, and so would be hard-pressed to envision all that is here. I often ask people who are experiencing TV for the first time what their impressions are and most respond with some variation of "unbelieveable". As often happens, when people ask me to tell them about The Villages, my response is usually - "you have to experience it, I can't adequately describe it." The Villages aren't perfect, but like the old saying, they are way better than wherever is in second place.