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Old 07-08-2012, 06:28 PM
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Originally Posted by jane032657 View Post
The Villages in my eyes is a tourist area. People are coming to see what it is about. It is talked about as Adult Disneyland. Lifestyle visits are inexpensive. People enjoy being snowbirds or coming down to visit in their hometown winter months. So yes it will get crowded. I lived on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia for five years, another paradise, fabulous. Quiet, goregous, peaceful, only access was ferry/boat and sea plane. Then summer comes. Population doubles. Traffic lines coming from ferry (no street lights on island so now you might have five minutes of summer traffic figuring out the roads). But that crowdedness creates jobs and income and vibrancy for the community. Same for TV. All of us were a part of making The Villages crowded before moving there because we came to visit and experience everything. It just is how it is because of what it is. That is what makes it The Villages.
Bingo...its why this place does not feel like my home. TV's form of government is also a concern, county Property and School taxes are high, utilities are high especiallty water, insurance is high. I paid half as much for my insurance in the Minneapolis area for a house that was double the square footage.