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Originally Posted by jbdlfan
Golfed with another couple this weekend and in conversations about eating out and such, this couple remarked that they never left TV. Other than one Dr. appointment, if they couldn't get there in a golf cart, they didn't go. I'm just curious how common this is? How long have folks gone without leaving TV?
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I would look at it this way, based on our own experiences living in a totally self contained college town since 1970 to present..........if a town has all the services one needs including hospital, doctors, lawyers, colleges, museums, schools, shopping, theatres, etc..........and on and on...........there is no need to go elsewhere EXCEPT when one is going on vacation and needs to get to the airport which is in another state...........or to visit our grandchildren who live three hours away plus others halfway across the country..........or, when we set off on a road trip to see the other regions of the United States. But, for the most part, we never leave our town as there is no need to.
When we were younger and lived "off an exit of the Garden State Parkway" in New Jersey, we thought nothing of driving all over the state to go shopping or for recreation or to visit friends and family.
However, here in Vermont, we have everything we need in one town.
This town is surrounded by the Green Mountain forest and farmlands...and one has to cross the mountains to get to the other side of the state.
The Villages has everything within it's borders that anyone would ever need without venturing elsewhere............unless they wanted to go the beach or Disney or the airport, etc..........but perhaps they have "been there and done that" and are content to "stay put" in TV. I don't see anything strange about that.
My husband would joke that often we never left town but once or twice a year to drive to the airport. That was when our kids still lived at home.
Once they moved away to go to university and then later moved further away, that was a different story.......we'd travel to see them. However, for the most part, we still find everything we need in one town....but not via golf carts.
WE've seen Mount Dora and all the beaches plus Disney World, for years on end. I doubt if we'd venture out that much from TV if we moved there permanently. But, never say never.