the question of how big is too big for TV will have as many answers as there are people being asked.
The concept the developer has consitently promoted is distributed services/amenities/restarants/shopping/et al.
While it may be of interest to go to all the squares or other shopping/restaurants in other districts within TV, it really is not neccessary to live one's daily life because most of the daily needs can be had "locally" to one's village.
As a result serving a 100,000 population in a distributed way ala TV is very much different than any other city of 100,000 that does not have a distributed plan for it's residents.
I am sure we are typical residents of TV. Everbody likes to go see what is new that is being added to the newer developed areas....no matter how far away it is. With some exceptions we have a routine that operates in our immediate area. Ten years ago we had to drive to 441 to go to a doctor of any kind. Now we have our pick of any kind of medical support less than 10 minutes away.
We used to gravitate to Spanish Springs for shopping and entertainment. Since Lake Sumter Landing opened, we rarely have to go to SS for anything.
We have our village's rec center as well as choice of multiple regional rec centers....all less tha 10 minutes away.
We have a shopping center that houses Publix and the usual other tenants and retailers less than 10 minutes away.
And so on.
So the fact that we live in a residential area that has a population "measurement" of 90+ thousand.....it is very different than living in cities of equal size any where else.
Tes commercial traffic has increased and yes resident traffic has increased....but keep in mind it is only for that 10 minutes or so that we navigate in most of our daily living.
We truly are spoiled.
We moved South of 466 the year they made 466 4 lanes.....when Buena Vista did not go beyond wher Arnold Palmer CC is....when there was no Arnold Palmer CC!!! We have experienced TV growing to 3 times what it was when we moved in 2004. The growth brought a critical mass that transformed available shopping/restaurants, medical facilities/services/entertainment to almost anything one could want to see available. This was not the case when TV sothern border was 466.
After looking at 55+ living in the 4 corners of the USA, we moved from a very lovely 55+ retirement community in Beaufort, SC to TV because it offered the "lifestyle" we could not duplicate any where else. We have not been disappointed one bit.
Yes we would do it again today.
We have friends that moved away from Sothern FL to closer to back home. because they did not like FL. After staying with us the first year after we moved in they commented...."now this is what we expected living in FL would be like". It does not mean they are right about TV perspective of FL.....it just means this place is very different from most other communities and one cannot know that until or unless they stay here long enough to wear out a pair of shoes.
That is my $4.76 worth (2 cents adjusted for inflation and socialization
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btk