[Ohiogirl]

from everyone. I think maybe what the OP is getting at is that they don't anticipate using many of the amenities in TV, so why would they want to pay for them? For instance, I am guessing the OP is not a golfer. Well, I can't tell you how many people I have met out on the exec. courses who didn't golf when they came here, but decided to give it a try and found they enjoy it.

Maybe they only golf 9 holes socially once a week or even less, but it is another social outlet as well as free golf. Believe me, there are plenty of duffers out there, and no one cares (just don't play slow)!

TV is about the only place where you can find your niche or subculture and totally immerse yourself in that, or just dabble in different things as well. It is just so affordable to do things here, and easy to try out things you may never have thought you would do, or hadn't even thought about doing.

I would think the smaller communities would be kind of like living at your private country club, maybe kind of hard to be accepted into already existing groups or cliques as well, unless you are very outgoing. Here it is very easy to join newly formed groups, or get in on the fringes of an older group until you decide if you'd like to be more active in it.

I also know people who never did much in their pre-retirement lives except work and hang around the house, and never thought they would join things and become more outgoing, and lo and behold, they found something to do here that they love and never pictured themselves doing in retirement.