When was the first time you ever heard about The Villages?

[Talk Host]

I first heard about the Villages..................

[kfierle]

. . . from my sister. I asked her where it was located. She said "The Villages". I asked what city it was in and she replied "The Villages". It took me a while to understand but I finally got it and purchased my own house in The Villages about 2 years later!

[nONIE]

an accidental drive by sighting and a very curious nature, took a little detour into The Villages and the rest was history!

[twynsmom]

:highfive: From Friends. They moved down here, called us and said we HAD to come visit with them, we wouldn't believe our eyes. We took them up on their offer and the rest is history. :MOJE_whot:

[Russ_Boston]

Internet research - Took a ride (about 6 years ago) while down on a Disney vacation.

Then found TOTV and met with some other TOTVers and we'll be perm residents within a year or so.

[Pturner]

Once upon a time, nay make that 100s of times, we saw a hokey television ad.

Over and over ad nauseam did we see said ad, until our brains were saturated. Then, as luck would have it, hubby chanced to have a conference one Spring in Orlando. Being golfers, we decided to venture 45 minutes north and check out these "Villages of the Hokey Ad". It only took one night. (A dark and stormy night it wasn't!) We loved it!

An LSV and a few more trips later, we bought a home. We can hardly wait to retire there and live happily ever after.

The Beginning.

[sandybill2]

from our neighbor in Richmond, Va. He had been down each winter for a week or two. He is still in Virginia---we have been permanent residence since Oct. 07.

[Halle]

I first heard about the Villages..................

from a friend whose parents had moved to The Villages from Ohio,she stated the all too familiar phrase, "You won't believe this place it is great".

We visited on a LSP a few years later with my parents hoping they would move there. They loved The Villages but not willing to move. We bought a house and plan to be full time residents in a few years when we retire.:pepper2::pepper2:

[elevatorman]

There was acctually a Broadway musical that was the history of TV. The producers could not get the rights to the name "The Villages" so the musical was called "Camalot".

[Chi-Town]

Visiting friends in Clermont in February, 2004. LSP's in 2008 and 2009. Full time now.

[Pturner]

There was acctually a Broadway musical that was the history of TV. The producers could not get the rights to the name "The Villages" so the musical was called "Camalot".

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[annie2]

We first heard of TV while watching The Masters. We sent away for their package and went to visit on our next Florida trip. Thought we could make a day trip of it (from Clearwater). Ended up staying the night (they put us up in a "Cottage"). Only had time to look at a few more houses the next day (barely touched the surface) so 3 months later we booked a 6 night LSP and bought 3 months later

[Bosoxfan]

Friends who had come down on an LSV...They're still up north and very jealous..:undecided:

[dillywho]

:icon_wink:I first heard about the Villages..................

Hubby saw it one day in 2002 while watching golf. We came for a LSV, loved it, decided we would move, finally making it in 2004 (he wanted to retire for a second time first). We have never regretted doing it a day. We have family close (but not too close..haha) and that is another plus considering that we are into the throes of our second childhood. We at least see them a couple of months out of the year now instead of every couple or so years, too. Oops, one almost regret....we should have gone ahead and moved in 2002.

[barb1191]

Former husband whom I hadn't seen or heard from for 25 years called me in MA to tell me that he had sold his business in MA and retired to The Villages in FL.

Asked me if I would come visit him with no strings attached. He mentioned that The Villages is the place to retire. Since he was much older than me, I wasn't ready to retire and not sure if I wanted to renew a friendship with someone I couldn't live with many years ago.

I decided to make the trip and was so very impressed with The Villages and unfortunately not impressed with former hub. Stayed a week and we both knew that our paths had grown way apart. I left after a week with a sulking exhusband left to sulk and never to be heard from again.

About three years later I was visiting friends in Sarasota and decided to take a ride to show them The Villages. At that visit, I bought a place in TV there and then (which was eight years ago) and did not contact exhub re my new residence in TV.

By this time exhub was very ill and passed shortly after my moving here. I chose to not befriend him upon moving here however I did take him to a dr's visit in Leesburg and found him to be extremely fragile and weak as well as suffering with dimentia.

I do appreciate learning about TV from him and love the lifestyle as a snowbird. Best of all...I met my "Mr Wonderful" here in TV and they lived happily ever after.

[swrinfla]

. . . from my brother, who lives nearby on an airpark (his hangar is bigger than his house - and, no, he's not John Travolta nor at his airpark).

I came down for a Thanksgiving visit in 2002 and was awestruck by what was here. While I researched other places in 2004, when I finally decided to get out of "Dodge," there was really never any question as to where I'd end up!

SWR
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[salpal]

A cousin and his wife moved to TV. During their visits home, TV was all they talked about and frankly, I thought it was too good to be true. After hearing so much about it, we decided to check it out with a lifestyle visit. We drank the Kool Aid and purchased a villa the week we returned from TV. We looked at several types of homes and in a very short time, we knew the villa was for us.

LOL The first thing I said when we checked into a villa for our lifestyle visit was: "I could never live in a house like this, it is like being in a cave."
I changed my mind very quickly.

[Linwood]

Came to visit grade-high school friends of my wife's, there are two couples she has know since the 6th grade -
I liked the place, lots to do, third Christmas we visited, at shortly after five pm on New Years eve, our agent called our friends house, a place she might like had just been released to sales, it was the floor plan (Lantana), color, set up and had a golf car garage on a pond,
Luv I exclaimed! we can't afford a second house! I did not even bring my checkbook, to which the sales agent exclaimed, We'll take Master card!
so unplanned, unbudgeted and on a dream!
Two down, two to go,
Then Hadley folks we'll be!
Whooooo!

[djplong]

"Wired" magazine article on electric vehicles had a section on the customized golf carts at TV - and also went into describing the system of golf cart paths, etc. So I clicked over to see what it was all about - just out of curiosity. The rest, as they say, is history.

[Doreen]

We were on our way to Ocala on route 27 to check out a retirement community and as we passed the Villages we decided that we would stop to check it out on our way back. We went to the Spanish Springs sales office and they were just closing for the day. So I came back to MA and got out the computer and tried to learn everything I could about the villages. We went for a LSV and decided that this is where we want to be. We bought a furnished house online and went to see it the day before closing. It was wonderful..Plan to move there full time in June.

[barb1191]

"Wired" magazine article on electric vehicles had a section on the customized golf carts at TV - and also went into describing the system of golf cart paths, etc. So I clicked over to see what it was all about - just out of curiosity. The rest, as they say, is history.

Great article djplong; thanks for sharing....barb

http://www.wired.com/cars/coolwheels/magazine/17-10/ff_ecars

[RichieLion]

on Joan Hamburg's radio program out of NYC on WOR in '06, I think, that she broadcast from The Villages at Nancy Lopez. She described the place expansively and I was intrigued and since my wife and I were planning a trip to Disney with relatives I booked a side trip to The Villages for a few days and that's all it took for us to fall in love with the place.

[k2at]

from a friend who already lives here.

[BeeGee]

commercial on TV first, then we started to do research on other communities 'cause TV really couldn't be THAT wonderful, right? Well...planned a trip, told my brother in KY...they came down w/us...now they're planning on moving here sooner than we can (they're already retired) - that'll teach me to not tell him everything I do!!! :oops: But, really, when we're both here, then it will truly be paradise - :pepper2:

[Mikeod]

Saw the LPGA tournament they held at Tierra del Sol way back when. When my son and his family moved to Sarasota in '05, we came out from CA to visit them and decided to take a look at TV. Annnnnnd, here we are!

[chuckinca]

From Lillian (my mother) - who lived in TV for 18 years.


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[Jerseyboy2]

My wife found TV while doing research on retirement communities. We came down with friends to check out a couple of communities in March of 2008 including TV.

Came back with our friends in August 2009 for a LSP and purchased a home.

Hope to be moving to TV permanently by 2010 or 2011. Can't wait

[Pturner]

bump.
I have so enjoyed this thread and hoping to hear a few more stories about how peeps found TV before the thread fades away. Do tell!
:popcorn:

[Army Guy]

my wife, who while watching FOX News saw Steve Doocy during the Prez Camp. there and we sent for the packet. The rest as they say, "is history"!

Army Guy

[bluedog103]

On a Caribbean cruise we met a couple who kept bragging about this place they lived called The Villages. Boy, were they annoying. Yap, yap, yap.
Some months later my wife and I were vacationing in Florida and she wanted to visit this place our cruise acquaintences kept talking about. I had no interest in wasting a day of my vacation driving to some place far from the ocean.
My wife, after constant nagging, won the battle. We drove to TV, after getting bad lost along the way. By the time we finally arrived in Spanish Springs, I was in no mood to visit anywhere. I just wanted to turn around and get out of there. Someone convinced us to take the trolley tour. After riding around and cooling down I started to like the place. We stayed around, had dinner and visited the square.
Here we are, 2 Lifestyle visits later, about to close on our new home in St. Charles. Who would have thought?

[skip0358]

Saw a TV ad about 12 years ago. Sent for the tape ( at that time it was a VHS). Got a good chuckle out of it. Visited a neighbor who retired down here about two years later. Did research checked many other places. They all lost but we picked the winner. Very happy in our home in TV.

[pauld315]

This is a hard question. The first time we "visited" was January 1, 2000. We drove up there from WDW for a half day. Unfortunately, the sales office in SS was closed so we just did a self tour. We had known about the Villages at that time since about 1996 and had received a VHS tape or two from them. I am now 57 and we are planning to retire there n 2013. We took a preview tour this past April and stayed at the Waterfront Inn in July. So, by the time we move there we will have been anticipating this move for 17 years.

[imbrennan]

I think we might be the most unusual. We first heard of the villages in Muscat in the country of Oman when my husband was working in the Middle East. An american friend mentioned that he had just bought a house there and that there was free golf. My husband's ears pricked up and next thing I knew we were coming out to look. We were hooked and that was back in 2001.

[chacam]

From my brother. I thought he wa lying to me until we visited.

[BritParrothead]

In the early 90's we saw an ad in an English Sunday newspaper. We were visiting Orlando with our sons and drove up onse day and took the tour! We had neve seen anything like it, there was only one square at the time, bit we were still blown away. And to this day we still are!

[brostholder]

I was working in Port Clinton, Ohio and was counselling a woman about her prescriptions that she had just transferred from a pharmacy in Florida. I told her that my wife and I were thinking about retiring to the Mt. Dora area in Florida. Well, she just started going on and on and on about The Villages and what a friendly place it was. That night went I got home I checked it out on the internet. I fell in love with the place without ever seeing it. A few months later we flew down to Orlando and started looking around. After a week of wasting time with realtors, we drove up to the villages and took the tour. We bought a CYV the next day.

[graciegirl]

We were vacationing all over Florida with another couple about 12 years ago and the other guy insisted we check out The Villages. We arrived in a terrible rain storm and I thought Spanish Springs was "hokey". I had NO intention of moving to Florida EVER.


Another couple insisted we stop by for a vist to their home in Poinciana a couple of years ago. We just loved it and three months later we came down on a LSV and we bought in Hadley.

[iandwk]

Saw the ad on television, ordered the dvd, reserved a lifestyle preview in Dec of '08 since we were coming through to visit family in Frostproof anyway. Rented 2 months on '09, closed on a pre-owned home in July this year.
Hope to live at least another 40 years to be the oldest Villager in history.

[mikeandnancy1112]

Do I go to multi quote to reply to the posting so everyone can see it?

[getdul981]

My wife and I have been visiting FL, i.e. WDW, for about 30 years. We had seen The Villages on the local weather maps, but had never known anything about it until this past April. We sere once again in Orlando and some friends invited us to visit TV with them as they were thinking of moving up there from Orlando. We rode up with them and took the trolley tour, had lunch and drove back to Orlando. My wife and I made two more trips from O to TV while there. Put a depost on a piece of dirt in May and as soon as we get our home here in VA sold, we wil be heading to TV to rent a place while our new home is being built.

So I guess the first I ever really knew of The Villages was this past April.

[redwitch]

I used to run an online bridge group. Due to personal reasons, I had to leave California. I ran a post and simply stated that if anyone in the South was interested in meeting me up close and personal, I would happily spend a day or two with them.

I hopped on a plane to Miami, rented a car and did a whirlwind tour of the South -- over 5K miles in 30 days. Had a ball. Met some truly wonderful people and visited some great sites. Obviously, one stop was in TV. Liked it so much, I managed another stop on my way back to Miami. When I got back home, I weighed my options -- choices were North Carolina; Atlanta, TV.

TV won for many reasons -- (1) I would be younger than most so wouldn't be aged out of the job market; (2) the people were incredibly friendly; (3) I could play bridge 7 days a week if I so chose; (4) the people were really nice; (5) it was affordable; (6) I really, really liked the people I'd met. Florida had two cons: a state I've never particularly liked; I could never imagine living in a retirement community, especially since I was nowhere near ready to retirement.

I've never regretted my choice. I love TV and I was 100% right about the people here. They are truly the greatest, most generous of spirit people I've ever met. The only downside is that I truly miss California and the Bay Area. I think I'll always be homesick and that would be true wherever I landed.

[rjn5656]

Over 5 years ago, i vaguely heard about it. So while on a vacation to Tampa decided to make a quick trip up to look. Now this year, we bought and will be there shortly. It sold itself on that first trip.

[BobKat1]

Do I go to multi quote to reply to the posting so everyone can see it?

No, just hit "Quote" at the bottom of an individual post or, "Post Reply" at the bottom of a page.

[The Shadow]

The golf cart bridge over the highway sparked my curiosity so I stopped and went on the tour in 1988.

[LittleDog]

We had heard about TV around 1998 and sent for the video. Nothing happened for the next 5 years but I was intrigued with the video. We have a Disney timeshare but never did stop at TV until 2005 when I had a few days prior to a conference in Sarasota. My wife had a friend who moved here when her parents died and she inherited the house. We arranged for a visit and 3 days later we purchased a house (2005). We sold our house in Jersey and moved in April. Couldn't be happier with the decision. However, it would have been nicer if we had made this move earlier as I retired in 1998 and my wife 2 years earlier.

John

[jaspal]

No, just hit "Quote" at the bottom of an individual post or, "Post Reply" at the bottom of a page.
Two of my good friends had visited & REALLY liked it. Their description on what it had to offer was appealing to me. To my surprise within 8 months one moved down permanently & the other bought a home for part of the year.

One year later I visited Leesburg where I stayed in a friends home who had moved down also 1 year earlier. They wanted me to stay at their place & also buy a home in their area. I deligently looked at homes for sale in their area thinking I too would move their. Towards the end of my hunt I went to TV to visit my friends at TV. It was INSTANT love walking around TV:a040:. After the tour I was hooked. After this happened I returned home to tell my husband about TV. It was until 2 years later that we returned to Leesburg to visit these same friends. I kept encouraging him to visit TV. Upon seeing for himself he too agreed he likes it:loco:. His reasoning, unlike mine, was if we didn't like it we could sell a home in TV unlike the other parts of Florida. He also liked the golf opportunities. He, as myself, were impressed how clean & organized it was plus how friendly the people are in TV.

We are coming down in 1 week to buy our home:coolsmiley:

[robbie]

hubby (a golfer) had pestered me for 3 years about a visit to TV... i was only 50 at the time and had absolutely no intention of moving to "a old folks home"... as luck would have it, there was a 100% chance of rain for one of our disney vacation days so mostly to shut him up about it, i agreed to go...wasn't here 10 minutes and asked, where do i sign???... our house is under contract, will be up next month to buy...life is good!!!!:MOJE_whot:

[larrydube]

When I got back from Iraq in 2005 I took my daughter down to Ft. Lauderdale to live. On the way back I stopped to visit a friend in the Villages. I was sold the minute I stepped into Spanish Springs Square. I finished my trip, and I kneww that I had to take my wife down to visit. She is a die hard Maneiac who would never leave Maine. We bought a house on our second week of the vacation. We closed on it a month later and are now finally retiring at the end of October. :a040: :coolsmiley: We cannot wait!!!!!:2excited:

[dgammon6]

My brother lived in Myrtle Beach and came to TV 11 years ago on a lifestyle preview visit. He called me and told me to sell the farm, property we owned together, that he was moving to TV. We visited him 10 years ago and immediately knew we would come here when we retired. We've been here 2 years, no regrets.

[Susan G]

I found TV on a Google search of 55+ communities while at home recooperating from ankle surgery in June. Ordered the DVD and packet and told a friend about it. She informed me that a couple we both know from New Orleans moved there in 2007. After speaking with them (JoAnne and Ron), reading TOTV and looking at the homes for sale, I am SOLD! Planning to make a LSV in 2011 and hopefully relocate there mid-year 2012.

[laryb]

I have a brother who lives in Dunnellon who kept telling me about a development near him that had nice manufactured homes for sale really cheap. That was about 4 or 5 years ago. We checked it out and to say the least were not impressed with the old homes and lack of amenities. Definitely not the like historic side, more like a trailer park, so we forgot about Florida. When my youngest son moved to Apopka in 2006, we started thinking again. Well, my brother's stepson worked for a tile company in TV, and my brother said I should at least look at it. We figured it would be another waste of time but had a free day, so what the heck, we made an appointment with a sales rep and went. We got lost looking for SS and it was the best thing that ever happened. We saw the beauty of TV on our own before someone could tell us it was beautiful! After 4 lifestyle visits and one hotel stay, we closed on our home June 21. From the first time we drove into TV we have constantly thought about it, and having stayed in our home for just a couple of weeks after closing, the thought of TV has consumed us! Our home up north goes up for sale after the holidays and we'll be down for good as soon as it sells and the wife retires. In the mean time, we'll have to settle for a couple of weeks here and there, just so we can keep our sanity!!:rolleyes:

[scrapple]

...this winter on the way home from work I heard the NPR story. Then in May we did our visit. Now in 54 days we'll be there!

[Niels]

I had visited Florida for the first time for the first time in 1980 and liked it. I visited again in 1981 and decided I wanted to move to the central Florida area. It was not practical for us to do this at the time but I decided at some point that I would retire here.

I wanted to be close to Orlando but didn't want to live in Orlando. A few years ago I started looking near Orlando for a community to live in. Every time I visited Florida I would take some time to check out a few different developments. I looked at everything from mobile home parks to condos to small and large developments.

My wife and I saw some nice places. My wife wanted to buy a couple including a couple of beautiful condos that we saw and a nice house on a corner lot in a small development. However, every place I looked at didn't seem to strike me as having a strong community feel that I wanted. Also, the places seemed isolated with not enough activities to keep me busy. After our Florida trip in fall of 2007, I decided to expand my search and started doing an Internet search.

I found The Villages on the Internet and ordered an information packet. I liked what I saw and then decided to visit in January 2008.

[2BNTV]

From a very good friend who moved down to TV about ten years ago and was always inviting to stay at his home.
I did a LSV in 2007 and was blown away. Loved Donna Moore's singing performances and TV grounds, rec centers, etc is kept like a five star hotel.
Most of all, the friendliness of everyone I came into contact with.
I came home wanting to move to TV immediately but couldn't move then for a variety of reasons but I'm still working to make it a reality ASAP. Will visit in September to keep my sanity and dream alive.
My goal is to go from a wannabe to a frog.

[fizzbyn]

We both grew up near Disneyland and went there all our lives, including having annual passes for the last 20 years. Then we decided to move to AZ to a nice retirement community but got bored and reassessed what we really like to do... go to Disneyland and ride around in the golf cart. We went online and looked around Disney World for retirement places, but weren't too serious because Florida was "swampy, hot, humid, buggy, flat, ugly and got devastated by hurricanes all the time". One of our AZ neighbors from MA found out we were looking and told us she had a friend in The Villages who was very happy, so we went out on Google Earth and discovered golf cart paths going under tunnels! So we sent for the DVD, came on an LSV and knew this was the place. And although it is hot and humid for a few months, it isn't very buggy, isn't flat, isn't swampy and is beautiful. We've been here 1.5 years and wouldn't be anywhere else.
It sounds like those "hokey" ads aren't what works for selling TV. We don't play golf so we didn't see them on the golf channels, but somehow we had seen them a few times. Too much emphasis on golf... TV has so much else going for it. They should show the towns, the squares and everyone riding around in golf carts.

[colleenj]

Saw the ads on TV 3 years or so ago during golf. I was starting to think about where I wanted to spend the rest of my life, decided it did not involve shoveling snow :) Came for a lifestyle preview 2 years ago, bought a house, came down a few days a month for 2 years and then last month made it a full-time reality. Best decision I ever made!

[barb1191]

This is a true story and most unique.

Having been divorced and single for almost thirty years and living in MA all my life, I get a call from my ex husband who is living in this place in Florida called The Villages. He tells me that he would like me to come visit him in this so-called paradise. After the shock wore off of hearing from him, we managed a civil conversation.

Is he crazy? Yes, however I decided after much thought that I would visit under certain conditions that he's not to expect a reconciliation. He assured me that he would not impose on my personal life nor expect anything but a good friend. Our divorce was not amicable, yet as the years pass, it's a whole different scenario.

Upon my arrival at about 11 pm in TV, unfortunately I was not impressed to see my ex, but very impressed with The Villages. I stayed about a week and decided that was long enough. I left with him being very annoyed that I didn't stay longer. Sulk, sulk, sulk.... No more calls from "the ex."

About two years later, I was visiting a friend in Sarasota and decided to take a ride up to check out TV on my own time. Loved it sooo much that I actually bought a home here at that time.

Upon moving to TV, I didn't contact my ex as I didn't want him to know I was here. Lo and behold, my picture was in the Daily Sun while attending a neighborhood meeting the first week I'm here. The picture of me and another neighbor were chosen to be photographed as newbies from the same part of our home state! I had no idea that this picture was going into the newspaper, thought maybe into a portfolio of sorts.

The ex never saw the picture and he found out that I lived in TV from his daughter who is still friendly with our family. He passed away shortly thereafter and that was sad, but he was ailing and moving into advanced stages of Alzheimer's.

As I said, the story is unique and I eventually met Mr Wonderful aka Bill, we married and are so very happy in our home in The Villages.

[PinkNana]

Came to Leesburg for a motorcycle rally in 2004 with friends who owned a villa. Fell in love and FINALLY moved here this year.

[cynkr67]

My husband is a golfer and has always loved the idea of a community with abundant golf and cart paths, but I did not want to live in a retirement community. Driving back from a visit to his parents in Sun City many years ago, we stopped by The Villages after seeing a billboard. What we saw did not impress us at all. We couldn't take the shuttle tour as they were all booked up, and driving ourselves around we thought it looked like a big trailer park. Three years ago we heard from good friends who'd bought in TV and asked us to come visit. On a trip back from Ft. Lauderdale we did just that. Intrigued, we then did a lifestyle preview a few months later, and stayed there for a month in a rental this March. We bought a pre-owned home before we left there and we're both very much looking forward to spending many months there every year!! TV may be a retirement community, but its residents know how to stay young!!

[bandsdavis]

....was on a broadcast on TV (that's television in the old jargon) of a PGA Tour event. It was that hokey ad they were running. Our first reaction was "This sounds too good to be true", so we got the video, came down for a short Lifestyle visit, got hooked, found out there were 2 of my classmates and one of our daughter's elementary teachers from NH already living there, came down for a longer Lifestyle, and have been dreaming of the day we can move ever since. Theoretically only 28 weeks or so away now, assuming we can sell the house in VA (it's on the market as of last week).

B.

[PJOHNS2654]

I first heard about the Villages..................

In the early nineties was planning my retirement. Saw an ad with photo of Chi Chi Rodriguez (Pro Golfer) He was saying "Come play my favorite hole" I believe it was on "The Hacienda Hills Course".

When I retired I bought a Motor Home and Planned to travel around Florida until I found the spot where I wanted to spend my winters. In 1996 I drove it to Ft. Myers, and then to The Villages. I took the LST although I don't think it was called that. Loved the villages from the get go and thought I would buy a home there some day. Stayed at a local RV Park for what I thought would be two weeks. Spent that winter and the next dozen in the RV Park, enjoying many aspects of TV before I finally bought in TV. two years ago.

[18togo]

This is a hard question. The first time we "visited" was January 1, 2000. We drove up there from WDW for a half day. Unfortunately, the sales office in SS was closed so we just did a self tour. We had known about the Villages at that time since about 1996 and had received a VHS tape or two from them. I am now 57 and we are planning to retire there n 2013. We took a preview tour this past April and stayed at the Waterfront Inn in July. So, by the time we move there we will have been anticipating this move for 17 years.

I found The Villages, and soon after TOTV, about a year and a half ago. While I love where I live in PA, there are three things I hate. January, February, and March. Way too cold!! To keep sane during these months, I look up warm places to retire. I found this site, and have not looked back. Like Pauld did back then, I have 17 years to retire, being only 43, but look forward to the day I can spend my winters in The Villages. I plan to visit in a few years when my kids are out of college.

[manaboutown]

At present I am 68 years of age. A year or two ago I started to consider moving to a retirement community so I started to research what had been written about lving in them. Of course I encountered the book "Leisureville" which, although the auther had his agenda, revealed much relatively detailed factual information about TV. Frankly, after reading Leisureville I could not wait to visit TV! I made a lifestyle visit to TV late last summer and plan to revisit, hopefully spending more time, later this fall.

[graciegirl]

At present I am 68 years of age. A year or two ago I started to consider moving to a retirement community so I started to research what had been written about lving in them. Of course I encountered the book "Leisureville" which, although the auther had his agenda, revealed much relatively detailed factual information about TV. Frankly, after reading Leisureville I could not wait to visit TV! I made a lifestyle visit to TV late last summer and plan to revisit, hopefully spending more time, later this fall.

So there, Andrew Blechman!

Welcome to you manabouttown.

[aljetmet]

I was watching a golf tournament and saw the ad. After a few tims I visite the site. Looked a round and checked priding on some resales. Thought to myself this would b ea great place but my wife does not golf. Figured I had no shot. Well last year we thought it might be time to look at a retirement community. I remembered TV and had my wife check it out online. She thought it was great and came for a non lifestyle visit last Feb. We''re both hooked but have to wait a 3 more years