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Originally Posted by justjim
"As far as the sense of entitlement comment, I stand by it.". Jdblfan. I don't personally know the vast majority of TV residents but the ones I do know well enough to call friends don't have what you call a sense of entitlement. You might be surprised to find that many TV residents came from very poor backgrounds and without exception they were not born with a silver spoon in their mouths. Many of us came from "blue collar" homes where they had mothers who mixed bread with hamburger to make the so called meat stretch far enough so all the family members had some to eat. As kids we were poor but didn't know we were poor. We learned the value of work from a very early age. If we wanted spending money we earned it by mowing yards, babysitting, collecting soda bottles, picking wild berries in season, packing in coal and whatever else we could find to do. When my father lost his job Because his factory closed, my mother took in washing and cleaned houses to help out. When I graduated from High School, I went straight to work miles away and sent home money every payday, until Dad got a decent job, so we could keep our house. We were entitled to work hard, pay your bills, save a little for a "rainy" day and go to church on Sunday. When I was 20 years old, I married a beautiful young Christian girl who just graduated from High School (met at church) and for years we worked hard and reached our goals of being the first in our families to graduate from college---while having a son born along the way. Like most folks, we had our mountains and our valleys. We saved and invested for retirement. That's only a small part of our story but in TV (trust me) you will find similar and better stories over and over again. This great land has given us opportunities not entitlements.
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Look, I've lived in or near The Villages for over six years now. My family has been here for eight and I have friends that were here from the beginning. I moved down here for this place. I understand what you say about struggles, first hand. I know some folks have worked hard to get here. But you are blind if you don't see the entitlement aspect. My wife has worked here for 6 years in a service position. She has now reached the point where she can't do it anymore. Her customers are rude, nasty, and condescending, even when they are proven wrong. Not all of them of course, but enough of them that she has to leave the business. That is truly sad because she is absolutely the best they have in her company and everyone will tell you that. I know many of you are not this way, but there enough, that as someone else has said, they bring the attention and scorn. We almost didn't buy in here because of her experiences, but have decided that if she can get away from these folks as customers and they are now our co-inhabitants, they will no longer treat her that way without consequences. I always challenge folks to speak to workers here outside this environment ask their opinions. You will generally get a different answer than you get while in here.
Still, none of this has anything to do with my original point.