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[QUOTE=tomwed;982697]Free golf, Separate Checks are What's Expected, Most Club Dues are $10/yr
How can you beat that?

No one really knows what you are worth. The have's and the have not's share the same facilities. It's not like home where the have's play the $100 courses or join the $5k country clubs and the have not's golf after 3pm on the cheap.

This is one of the real attractions of TV IMO. THERE ARE NO "exclusive" clubs as there are in most places. Tom references $5k country clubs, but these days many CCs in the country cost that much annually while requiring $50k or more in initial fees or stock. Often times those clubs offer advantages for members in business as well as advantages for their children in lessons and access. Some people join those clubs simply for the snob appeal. In TV everyone that goes to Lopez, or Palmer or any other CC, or Katie Belles/Cattle Baron as a resident is a member in good standing and the person getting by on Social Security is indistinguishable from the person drawing on a huge trust fund, or a retired CEO. In a post two or three years ago I rhapsodized about the "rich" lifestyle in TV, where one can attend live concerts, enjoy dancing nightly at three outdoor venues as well as KBs, be a member of more than a dozen country clubs, have exclusive privileges at thirty or so beautiful executive golf courses, dozens of pools and on and on, all on a modest retirement budget. I think I have visited, played, and dined with people from the historic side as well as some from the finest Premier villages, I just don't know which were which.