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Originally Posted by jbdlfan
I too, have no dog in this fight, living in Marion County, but if I still lived in Sumter County and did not live in The Villages, I would have a serious problem supplementing activities in and around The Villages. The folks in Lake Pan, Bushnell, Webster and other parts of South Sumter won't see any benefit from this. As a matter of fact, many locals that have been born and raised here, carry a deep resentment for the way their county has been changed. Don't care too much, just saying......
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Villagers contribute the biggest share of tax dollars that go into Sumter County's tax coffers. Those tax dollars go for schools.....Villagers don't have kids in school...., roads outside of the Villages, public safety resources in "Lake Pan, Bushnell, Webster and other parts of South Sumter." Funny thing....I don't hear of Villagers "carrying a deep resentment" toward locals who benefit from Villager tax dollars. To the contrary, Villagers support local businesses, use local contractors, volunteer and generously donate to local schools and charities.
I concede that if I were a local, I would miss quiet, lazy days fishing at my favorite childhood fishing hole with only my thoughts and the sound of the trade winds slipping through the trees , watching cattle graze or taking in a landscape of watermelon patches and wildlife instead of rooftops and roads. Sumter County is huge. I know there are places within Sumter where those memories still exist.
I don't hear too much resentment from the locals about the favorable economic impact, jobs, medical services, hospitals and financial opportunity for motivated native, "born and raised" who absent The Villages would be looking in Orlando, Tampa or Miami for decent work.
I do know some "locals" and they are wonderful people who do not express the resentment you suggest.
Like you......just saying.