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permanentvacation
02-20-2017, 11:01 AM
Do you love or dislike your neighborhood and why? Examples might be your awesome neighbors, proximity to entertainment or shopping, golf courses, etc. I realize this is a very subjective question. Different strokes for different folks. I'm curious to hear what people have to say about various areas of TV. PS - Feel free to PM me if you wish.
Deseylou
02-20-2017, 11:38 AM
Love my neighborhood.
We are in Hillsborugh, right off Cosmos. We live in the Ventura Villas.
We are a 10 minute golf cart ride from 7 executive golf courses.
Same for 3 country clubs.
Same for 5 rec centers,
We are really close to Brownwood.
Also close to Winn Dixie and Publix.
We play Mexican train once a week, Samba every other week.
We have driveway parties once a month.
Ladies shopping days.
Men's golf with breakfast on Saturday.
Kirsten Lee
02-20-2017, 12:00 PM
Yes, we love our Neighborhood. We are in the village of Summerhill. We are close to restaurants and stores. But what makes us love our neighborhood the best are the neighbors on our street. Ladies lunch every other month. Couples dinner the other months. Very nice, friendly, helpful people.
skip0358
02-20-2017, 12:10 PM
Yes we are Happy with our neighborhood Bonita. We're close enough to both Sumter Landing & Brownwood. Colony shopping center is close enough as is Havana and the Rec Centers. Plenty of pools nearby and the neighbors are helpful and friendly. What more can one ask for.
Villager Joyce
02-20-2017, 12:35 PM
Love our neighborhood--Hillsborough. Locating, location, location.
bluedivergirl
02-20-2017, 12:40 PM
Another Hillsborough. I love my neighbors, the five-minute golf cart ride to Brownwood. Socials, road trips, card games, water volleyball ~ I love it here.
RickeyD
02-20-2017, 02:30 PM
Lake Deaton (Hillsborough lite), convenient and quiet.
rubicon
02-20-2017, 03:13 PM
Do you love your neighborhood? More to the point we love our neighbors fun loving, respectful, thoughtful, live let live philosophy all other factors are secondary. neighbors make a loving neighborhood
permanentvacation
02-22-2017, 01:14 PM
Love our neighborhood--Hillsborough. Locating, location, location.
Another Hillsborough. I love my neighbors, the five-minute golf cart ride to Brownwood. Socials, road trips, card games, water volleyball ~ I love it here.
Lake Deaton (Hillsborough lite), convenient and quiet.
Is that Hillsborough area considered a new or recently built neighborhood(s)?:wave:
dewilson58
02-22-2017, 01:49 PM
Is that Hillsborough area considered a new or recently built neighborhood(s)?:wave:
Yes if "recent" is within the last five years.
Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Collier are "new" and close to Brownwood and grocery stores. More and more retail and commercial is coming to this area as a result of the population growth.
We are in this area. We love the perfect location and our neighbors.
There are a lot of people living in the Historic area and love that too.
gap2415
02-22-2017, 02:13 PM
We have been in three....loved each one.
Labelle North has all the benefits of Hillsborough next door...and the people super!
Why do you ask?
2BNTV
02-22-2017, 03:17 PM
I know I will get flack for taking the following position but I still say some neighborhoods fit some people needs better than others. It all depends on what is most important to a particular person.
All neighborhoods are pretty good especially if one has good neighbors. Some people like to be close to doctors,shopping, restaurants and big box stores. Some may like to be close to golf courses and rec centers. Hillsborough has a younger population demographic.
I like my neighborhood because it only has one entrance/exit gate so it is very quiet. Vendors are here during the day but there is no through traffic. Close to everything, shopping, doctors, restaurants and big box stores. Downside is no rec center but I am close to several in a short golf cart ride.
Make a list to decide what is most important to you!
graciegirl
02-22-2017, 03:57 PM
Our five year old neighborhood is very near Lake Sumter Landing and Publix and Winn-Dixie and many restaurants and doctors and dentists. It is right on 466 and Arnold Palmer Golf course surrounds us. We have 54 homes only and all nice people live in them.
Bridgeport at Laurel Valley.
BUT we loved Hadley before we moved from there.
Fraugoofy
02-22-2017, 06:54 PM
Love love love Lynnhaven. Close to LSL, grocery stores and Arnold. Super wonderful neighbors!
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02-22-2017, 07:06 PM
Do you love or dislike your neighborhood and why? Examples might be your awesome neighbors, proximity to entertainment or shopping, golf courses, etc. I realize this is a very subjective question. Different strokes for different folks. I'm curious to hear what people have to say about various areas of TV. PS - Feel free to PM me if you wish.
Hi, we live close to Sumter Landing, well we do like it and yet we are concerned about the ( Please do not send me flack on this) excess cars in street long term etc. Also there is some landscape anomalies that are a bit out of line for sure. It seems we could have some better control of the areas, we are all living here after a choice, the choice was a nice place with controls, some of those controls do not actually exist. Why have a garage full of junk and the driveway and street with so many cars? Just wondering.
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kcrazorbackfan
02-22-2017, 08:13 PM
We really like our neighborhood in the Village of St. James. We back up to St. Charles and across the street is Southern Star. Worried about the foot and vehicle traffic when we first moved in but didn't notice it after a week; the view of the golf course is great. The neighbors are great; just wish more than a couple of them played championship courses.
bunnyhop
02-27-2017, 11:09 AM
Do you love or dislike your neighborhood and why? Examples might be your awesome neighbors, proximity to entertainment or shopping, golf courses, etc. I realize this is a very subjective question. Different strokes for different folks. I'm curious to hear what people have to say about various areas of TV. PS - Feel free to PM me if you wish.
We live in Caroline Village, which is in the very CENTER of the entire Villages. We can take a leisurely walk into the gazebo in Lake Sumter Town Square in 20 min. We can cart to Spanish Springs in 20 min., Colony in 15 min., Southern Trace in 20 min., or Brownwood in 25 min. We hardly ever use our car because this is such an excellent location. And the best part of all - we have excellent neighbors! We all know each other and take turns having driveway parties, look our for each other, etc. Even though living anywhere in The Villages is a terrific location, we still LOVE CAROLINE the most. :-)
Nucky
02-27-2017, 12:01 PM
We are very happy living in Country Club Hills. The neighbors are amazing. People at the pool from other parts of TV remark about how nice everyone is. We usually move every 3 years, we will be staying over here for sure.
golfing eagles
02-27-2017, 12:10 PM
Have to say we love our neighborhood as well (Lake Deaton but only about 2-300 yards off Hillsborough. The Hillsborough pool is 5 houses down, the family pool 1/4 mile, Eisenhower 3/4 mile and Brownwood 1 1/4 miles. The golf course view is amazing, the house is well designed. But best of all are the neighbors. We have the usual monthly driveway parties, as well as special events every other month. My wife was hospitalized about 2 months after we moved in and didn't know many people---yet someone was bringing me dinner every day and a few went and visited her in the hospital. My granddaughter just visited last week and a neighbor brought us boxes of toys and books that her grandchildren use when they visit. If I had any minor negative comment it would simply be that the general landscaping is immature (along the roads, etc., but time should change that as well.
lennythenet
02-27-2017, 02:38 PM
We love our neighborhood! We live in Gilchrist West. It is very quiet and our neighbors are all very warm and friendly!
MikeyBoo54
03-01-2017, 03:30 PM
We live in Pine Ridge and are very happy with it. The neighbors are very friendly, kind and most of all helpful. 5 minutes golf cart ride from Colony, the new Walmart Neighborhood Market, 5 min from Moyer Rec Center, 5 min from Golf Academy and several courses. We often ride up to Brownwood or to Lake Sumter Landing with no problem.
We moved here from Hillsborough which we also enjoyed, but the management found a house she liked much better.
thelegges
03-01-2017, 09:00 PM
On third village, each unique in its own way. We do love Duval, easy to get to anywhere we want
We are in Village of Pinellas and very pleased. Younger neighborhood so easy to make friends. Newer homes so I feel it's more likely to appreciate. We are walking distance to two pools, about a mile from shops (grocery store, restaurants, gas, salon etc.) near the library, two rec centers and a short cart ride to square.
What I don't like is that Brownwood has been very slow to grow. I would love to see more restaurants, women's clothing shop etc. go in there and sooner rather than later!
SookeyJo
03-03-2017, 03:53 PM
We live in Charlotte and I wish we didn't! People aren't all that friendly, have their own groups they run with and not much in the way of activities. We are so disappointed.
RickeyD
03-03-2017, 11:35 PM
We live in Charlotte and I wish we didn't! People aren't all that friendly, have their own groups they run with and not much in the way of activities. We are so disappointed.
New people are always moving in. Give it time.
HoosierPa
03-03-2017, 11:45 PM
Can't imagine there being a better place to live than Antrim Dells next to Brownwood!
twoplanekid
03-10-2017, 05:18 PM
Today, I went to the annual garage sale in Bridgeport at Lake Sumter with my brother. The homes were beautiful as were the enormous lots with fantastic views. My wife continually tells me to not be envious of others. After returning to our house in the Village of Lake Deaton which is a little different than what I saw at Late Sumter, I am satisfied and happy with what we have. I love our place in the bubble.
joldnol
03-10-2017, 05:35 PM
We love Dunedin. Close to golf, pools, shopping and we have a very active, inclusive social club. We have multiple neighborhood golf groups also. As a result of it being new we tend to be the youngsters of the villages (50's and 60's)
Kevin and Luci
03-11-2017, 07:45 AM
We love Winifred, one entrance reduces car traffic. However, we do have 3 golf cart access points! Very quite as we sit on lanai and look out over pond to Arnold Palmer course. Great neighbors to top it all off.
Taltarzac725
03-11-2017, 08:17 AM
Love love love Lynnhaven. Close to LSL, grocery stores and Arnold. Super wonderful neighbors!
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Me too in Lynnhaven. Quite good neighbors for the most part even though two of my favorite people moved back to Ohio to help with the grandkids. Really miss them.
We have been here since June 2005. Prior to the Villages, our neighbors in Palm Harbor, FL could be a little trying as one side had a house owned by a criminal defense lawyer and it seemed he sometimes rented it to his clients. One neighbor raised pit bulls in cages in his garage and wound up bringing the animal rights groups to egg his house because he dragged one of his pit bulls through the neighborhood with his car instead of walking it. It bled so much that the cops followed the blood trail to his house after a kid called the police. Quite a media coverage of that in papers and on the local Tampa Bay news stations. All of them!!
Another neighbor at the same house liked to check up on his wife if she was having an affair by flying low over the house in his Coast Guard helicopter. Same criminal defense lawyer was his and her landlord as well.
A few of these probable criminal defense lawyer clients as tenants were nice though. I do not want to overgeneralize.
Things seem a little relative.
In Northern CA near Santa Rosa when we lived there movie production crews would park across the Fairway from us while staying at the Red Lion Inn about 300 feet from our back door. Made for some interesting walks with my pooch Amber the square cocker spaniel. She was well liked by some of the people strolling around the golf course. We lived bordering the golf course.
The Villages' neighbors are quiet relaxing compared to some other places.
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