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Originally Posted by NJblue
Peachie, thanks for your somewhat condescending response but it doesn't really address my issues:
You're claim that I want to shut the door behind me is not valid on two points. First, when we bought we were told that development would stop after the Brownwood section was completed. Even the developer used the term "Final Phase" to his advantage in marketing it. When you have the word of someone, I don't think you should be embarrassed to call them on it when that trust is broken. Secondly, the question I am asking is what would people prefer in terms of ultimate size. This has nothing to do with your implied selfishness. If you want to go on a quiet romantic walk with your spouse you probably prefer that a crowd of people don't follow you to that place. By your logic, you should prefer that people follow you there since otherwise you would be selfishly "shutting the door" on their opportunity to enjoy that space.
I agree about the economic thing and said so in my post ... perhaps you missed it. I only brought it up since some of those who endorsed future growth did so based on their beliefs of how it would help home values. I think their logic is 100% wrong.
As to the golf courses, ummm guess what? If I have to wait for all the people moving into the new sections to get old and die to get a tee time, I will a) have many years of waiting more and more for a tee time and b) may die myself while waiting. Having hopes for better tee times 10-15 years from now is no reason to want development now.
I'm not so sure about other developments in this area occuring if TV doesn't expand. TV has proven to be unique in its formula. Other developments have bee started in the area and are still crawling to be built out - even though their house values are significantly better in these other areas. The reason - they don't have the full package that only TV can offer. Even if they do come, at least their population won't be contending for our amenities. Also, their growth rate will be substantially less than what TV's rate of growth will be.
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I wasn't condescending, NJ.
Your post indicated you felt anyone who felt differently than you about expansion than you might not have experience with unrestrained growth, now that may be condescending. But to get back to the subject at hand...
The romantic walk analogy is strange for me because if I moved to a promised development of at least 110,000 people, I wouldn't be expecting a lot of privacy in public.
I believe the "Final Phase" used in marketing was the developers truth at the time. I do think the Morse's had thought The Villages would be contained within those borders.
However, life is fluid and when that beautiful piece of land on 466A became available, the Morse's changed their plans. My husband and I had hoped The Villages would acquire that property but we have the confidence in these developers that some don't.
As I said in my previous post, we have the option of leaving here anytime we no longer like it, that leaves us able to enjoy life here and now. Perhaps yours is the twisted logic, why would one insist we constantly worry about problems with The Villages that may never happen?
Who knows, maybe some of the profits from this development will be used to pay the penalties from the IRS suit. There's another positive!