View Full Version : WHERE DID YOU LEARN ABOUT TOV ( TALK OF THE VILLAGES )?
Happy62
03-26-2008, 06:08 PM
:dontknow:
Sidney Lanier
03-26-2008, 06:39 PM
Actually my wife is 'the' consummate researcher online, and she's the one who found it (along with a wealth of other informative/useful websites pertaining to TV. It's pretty amazing what's out there!
KathieI
03-26-2008, 06:54 PM
Hi Happy 62,
I heard about it from my brother, who lives south of Tampa. I thank him everyday for it!!
Since you didn't list relative, I haven't voted yet.
Kathie (happy 66!)
Mikitv
03-26-2008, 07:10 PM
My husband found it searching for things about the villages and then he told me.
redwitch
03-26-2008, 07:50 PM
Oops, I misread the question and voted for "friend." Actually, I found TOTV via a search engine (Yahoo, I think).
Sailor17
03-26-2008, 10:40 PM
;D ;D
GOOGLE SEARCH
YAHOO SEARCH...........
AND THEN FOLLOWED THE LINKS!
Sailors Wife
renielarson
03-26-2008, 11:19 PM
I actually found TV by "none of the above" choices. While on a week solo vacation to look for a retirement lakeside home I decided to take a break and make a day trip from Tavares to Silver Springs. It was on this drive I found myself passing through an "oasis" of which I had no idea what it was! Grabbing my camera, I took pictures through my windshield. Only later, did I research on the internet to find out what this most beautiful place was. I chalk this adventure up to fate.
KathieI
03-27-2008, 12:09 AM
Its a brief form we use in the chat room....
Kath :redface:
njgranny
03-27-2008, 01:50 AM
We found out about it from the TV ads. Then found out that a relative of a relative lives there.
KathieI
03-27-2008, 03:26 AM
Tony, do I have to splain everything to U??? Obviously, U haven't been on chat enuff cause they always use brief forms , member??
Betta come on more often. You need the practice.
Kath
Mintjulep
03-27-2008, 03:57 AM
I found TOV (talk of the villages?) from a link I followed after e-mailing a friend (a snowbird) that we were considering buying a place here.
My friend sent me something called JMAX Bits and I clicked onto TOTV from that.
Great info!!!! So glad I found it...
Have made friends and got into activities from the site.
Even tho we're only part time right now.......
(Discovered TV from commercials on Fox News Network).
jadebox
03-27-2008, 10:23 AM
None of the above. While traveling to Disney or visiting our children in Oviedo we would leave the interstate highways and travel the back roads. We passed here a few times and wondered what it was. Finally one day my husband said lets go look. At first we were sure we could not afford to live here. Stopped a couple times and found it did not cost near as much as I had thought. Stayed at a motel in Leesburg--could only stay but 2 days so did not do preview. I interviewed people at the square and the rest is history. My husband said we will buy now and I will retire in 3 or 4 years. One year later he was retired and we were full time Villagers. Best thing we ever did.
Russ_Boston
03-27-2008, 10:48 AM
Are we talking about TOTV or TV?
If TOV is Talk Of the Villages then i found it from another link i had to something in TV, don't remember exactly.
If TOV is The Villages community itself then i found it via web research that i was doing for golf course communities in FLA.
That's what I am trying to figure out, too, Russ, but nobody will tell me. :(
However, with two topics running in the same thread, it IS pretty hard to go off topic, and it does make the poll rather useless, not knowing about which prong people are answering.
renielarson
03-27-2008, 10:59 AM
Thank you Russ for pointing out the technicality. :redface:
I misread it for TV but think it was meant as TOTV. :dontknow:
I found TOTV by accident while searching on the internet. ;D :bigthumbsup:
Found the TOTV website from following one link to another while doing some goggle searches on the Villages. I can't remember the exact site that the link came from.
Since finding this site, it is my main connection to TV until we can move.
Cajungirl
03-27-2008, 12:01 PM
I googled 'forums the villages florida" and TOTV came up. Was hooked since. I don't do chat because we haven't moved yet and I don't know enough about TV to talk about. Will close April 30th and move in May 1st.
Donna
03-27-2008, 01:47 PM
I really can't remember how I found TOTV.. :o.....http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/doh.gif (http://www.millan.net)
One thing I can say for sure is I am glad I did, and I have met some of the BEST people I will ever meet...http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/budhug.gif (http://www.millan.net)....http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/goldstar.gif (http://www.millan.net)
TOTV>>>>>Pricelesshttp://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/onesmiley1.gif (http://www.millan.net)....http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/grouphugg.gif (http://www.millan.net)
chuckinca
03-27-2008, 07:21 PM
The Villages: From Mom - she has lived here for nearly 18 years
TOTV: From a link from the Lyle Gant Remax Real Estate website
http://www.lylesellsfla.com/
bleweyz39
03-29-2008, 07:33 PM
City-data.com
Muncle
03-29-2008, 08:31 PM
If we're talking TV, my sister-in-law mentioned seeing the sign on I-75 and I researched it on the net.
If we're talking TOTV, the Archangel Gabriel came down from heaven and told me about it in a dream. Or not, I don't remember.
Taltarzac
03-29-2008, 08:43 PM
Talk Host-- Jan K.-- gave a speech about TOTV at a Villages Computer Club meeting in mid July of 2007. Check out the Villages Computer Club. Google it. :bigthumbsup:
Taltarzac
03-30-2008, 04:43 PM
I found TOV (talk of the villages?) from a link I followed after e-mailing a friend (a snowbird) that we were considering buying a place here.
My friend sent me something called JMAX Bits and I clicked onto TOTV from that.
Great info!!!! So glad I found it...
Have made friends and got into activities from the site.
Even tho we're only part time right now.......
(Discovered TV from commercials on Fox News Network).
Maxine is a computer maven from the Villages Computer Club (VCC) who is a big AOL fan. She sends out e-mails to members of the VCC who have questions and/or concerns about AOL. Think that's what JMAX bits are. http://www.thevillagescomputerclub.com/links.htm
terpaq
03-30-2008, 04:53 PM
We learned about The Villages while standing in line at Disneyworld about a month or so ago...some Villagers told us all about the place and wanted us to buy their neighbors house...the Greens...it got our curiousity up...so, dispite having terrible colds..we drove up looked around ,looked at a few model homes...now we are packing up , and fixing up the house to sell....and hope to be there before the snow hits again ...probaby by November...or earlier...love the place!! terpaq
ConeyIsBabe
03-30-2008, 05:30 PM
I've been doing extensive research on FLORIDA cities, mostly on city-data.com and someone mentioned TV and offered a link to TOTV and here I YAM ;D
punkpup
03-30-2008, 05:57 PM
I learned about TV (The Villages) in 1998 when we got The Golf Channel. That silly little song about Florida's friendliest home town not withstanding lol. Being totally obsessed with Golf it seemed like a great idea so I sent away for the video; yes I actually think I have that video tape around here somewhere.
TOTV (Talk of The Villages), I think I found it on www.lylesellsfla.com when I was looking for previously owned property at TV.
Just Susan
03-30-2008, 11:53 PM
Found the TOTV website from following one link to another while doing some goggle searches on the Villages. I can't remember the exact site that the link came from.
Since finding this site, it is my main connection to TV until we can move.
That's how I found it too. :agree:
Found TV on the Golf Channel.
Really really glad I found both!
;D
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