[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by Mack184

Many of the people who do not agree with my original post keep coming back to the idea that "I" am unhappy. And given enough time "I" will be a happier soul if I just let TV & TV area work it's magic on my cold soul.

For the record, "I" am NOT unhappy. I have my own world & my own career, I have my wife and we are blessed to be warm, dry & fed. "I" am happy.

However, what I have discovered by spending time on TOTV, it seems that despite your loud protestations many of YOU are NOT happy. For a place that in theory wants to rival Disney as "The Happiest Place On Earth" many, many threads here on TOTV are nothing but complaints and whines about this, that, the other thing, and your neighbors.

Let's take two active threads for context. The first one "Bonifay Is A Bad Neighbor". In this thread the OP is upset because the club is just that..A club where people gather, eat, drink, dance & listen to music. The OP is upset because his home is within earshot of the club and the noise is upsetting him. Now let's assume that the OP has decent eyesight, decent hearing and is competent to sign a legal contract. If those assumptions are correct, then WHY would you purchase a home next to a club/saloon if what you desire is quiet? It ain't gonna happen there. My wife's aunt & uncle live in a village where there are nothing but other homes around them. It would seem to me that if what your desire was to have a quiet atmosphere, a purchase in a village where you are NOT next to a club would be a prudent move. That was not the OP's choice, so NOW the OP wants to blame the club and make them change THEIR mode of business to suit HIS needs. I'm glad the club manager told him off. He deserved it. So the OP comes here to gin up sympathy because he's incompetent to make a good purchase.

The other thread I'll use is one called "Cigarrette Trash". Here the OP is all upset about various cig-butt droppings and related garbage. I feel her pain. I have no love for smokers. It's disgusting. However...She's a Frog, and one of her instant conclusions is that the problem is likely to be "Snowbirds" because of course we all know that in TV pecking order Snowbirds.. especially if they are renters are lower than whale dung and anything that disrupts nirvana from November-April has GOT to be the fault of the Snowbirds, because the Frogs certainly wouldn't ever do that!

Sheesh!!!

Then you have the people who narc on their neighbors because somebody like Tom Hannon's wife puts out a decorative pot that is against the rules and by placing that pot in an illegal spot has somehow turned the neighborhood into some sort of inner-city ghetto. In William Shirer's book "Berlin Diary" he relates the story of a german woman who was grief-stricken because she had been informed by the German Navy that her son was lost at sea when his submarine was sunk. A few days later several of the woman's neighbors quietly came to her to let her know that her son was not dead..he was alive! He had been taken prisoner by the Brittish navy and was safe in England. The neighbors knew that because they had illegally listened to the BBC's german service. The woman thanked them and then denounced them all as traitors for listening to illegal broadcasts. It takes a VERY cold soul to do that. The same sort of cold soul it takes to narc on your neighbors over some little garden pot merely to feel superior.

If TV is attempting to topple Disney as "The Happiest Place On Earth" why do so many of you complain so loudly on these pages about such utterly trivial things?

People like Gracie tell me just how wonderful her life is here and how wonderful the people are. My in-laws would tell you the same thing, but I cannot see it. You complain about restaurants, you complain about golf carts, you complain about pets, you complain about parades, you complain about your neighbors, you complain about what WVLG plays or does not play, you complain about the Morse family (who are absolute geniuses IMHO) you complain about almost everything under the sun.

If TV is such a wonderland, then WHY are the people who are mad at me for stating my feelings that do not agree with theirs, not happier in the first place? Why is there not thread after thread full of praise and good feelings? Why are there so many complaints about a place that you think is heaven on earth? To be certain, there ARE threads about good things here, but why are THEY not the majority?

Ya got me!!