Serious concerns by this poster
ABSTER:
I hope and pray this gentleman will be okay. I am also saddened to hear no one could get to this life saving equipment. This is a retirement community and you would certainly expect more. Not to change the subject BUT I hate going to the square. I push my husband in a wheelchair. There are many times we are heading one direction and have to do a Uturn because there is no handicap access...no way onto or off sidewalks. Are you kidding me? In a village full of old people? This community is this old and these serious problems have never been addressed? I am so happy this is NOT my primary residence.
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Take a walk around LSL. You'll soon all the sidewalks are not accessible on both ends. Also, notice how few Handicapped parking spaces there are???? Absolutely insane. Yes, this is just a get away place for us. We have an oceanfront home a few hours away. We bought here for the lifestyle but found it's too crowded to really enjoy. We do have a lot of friends who have second homes here - for the winter golf. I personally feel it's far too crowded and it's beginning to show it's got the same problems as any other community out there - thieves, sex offenders, drug and alcohol abuse...
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Serious concerns expressed above by this new poster.......
I read both posts with total understanding of what she was trying to convey. As we all age, at some time or another, everyone will confront problems of mobility, or perhaps an unexpected medical emergency..........in a retirement community of oldsters (or I used to assume they were all old people like us), ease of access to all venues , along with handicapped parking, should be a top priority.
Anytime a place gets too big, the little things , the important things, get lost along the way.
Hopefully, all turned out well for the injured individual, as the ambulance did seem to arrive in an expedient manner.
To the original poster, I knew what you meant to convey........
We too, have been weighing apples vs. oranges, such as the desirability of a much smaller community on the oceanfront which has all of the services one would desire, plus less crowded conditions with lower population.......vs. the original dream of The Villages as a retirement destination. Perhaps we waited too long and are already too old. Que sera sera.......
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