If TV feels like a "tourist area", it is because everyone comes from somewhere else.....none of us was born and raised here. "Tourist" communities I've lived near are termed "tourist" towns because the majority of people go there to vacation, spend their money, and leave. Tourists do not care about taking care of the properties they are using for lodging, recreation, golfing on, etc. That is not the case with TV.
Here in TV, people come here to live.......on a permanent vacation. We've worked like animals for 40 years to finally be able to take a vacation that does not end in a week or two, and that does not require us to "clean out and empty the condo completely" (translation: Mom spends the last 48 hours of "vacation" cleaning and doing 15 loads of laundry so the car/van trunk is not full of stinky, moldy beach towels, t-shirts, etc. upon arriving home after driving for 20 hours). It's also a permanent vacation because we go places and do things without getting a babysitter or listening to little kids crying, fussing and running around wearing us out.
I really don't see how comparisons can be made between TV and, let's say, Minneapolis. The reasons for locating in TV or the other location are like night and day, starting with the weather.
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