[coconutmama]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Really enjoy this Game Show Network program and the host is quite fun.

If they asked "What would you think of first if I said 'The Villages?"; what would be your responses?

Golf

Golf cart fun

Nice landscaping

“Owe my soul to the company store” Developer control

Lightening storms

Huge, much more so than non-residents realize

Questionable reputation (politically, sexually & “entitled” mentality, especially to surrounding communities)

[Janhug123]

Fun!

[OhioBuckeye]

We’ve had several people come from another state & EVERYONE OF THEM said WOW when you said Villages I didn’t think it was going to be this big!

[Buckeye Bleau]

Here in Ohio, friends and acquaintances will ask where my home is in Florida and I reply The Villages.
Unofficially, 75% or so, will have some response similar to, “Oh, that place that is the STD capital of the world!”
Really, with the low cost of living, an abundance of activities and entertainment galore, that is the one thing you know, shameful snd a very negative thought process.

[MrFlorida]

Friendly people.

[Marvivo]

Fun

[Karen Fredritz]

Do you really live in the Villages?

[Velvet]

Are we talking about the environment? Which is neat and tidy (for the most part) and subtropical. Or the people who live here? The ones I met are FRIENDLY, helpful, and funny (for the most part). Don’t know about STD, neither did my parents who lived here 15 years or my uncle and aunt who lived here 30 plus years. Must be some kind of joke among the “it” crowd.
Main problems to me are hurricanes and traffic. Not a perfect place but it’s my happy place.

[La lamy]

Retirement paradise.

[larrycrilley@gmail.com]

Traffic??? Traffic??? I came from the most congested place in the US. The traffic here is a dream. Since I been here I have not once had to be at a complete stand still for more than enough time for the light to change. It used to take more than an hour to travel my 15 mile commute. This is a drivers paradise! I am sorry you see this place through such dark lenses,

[Taltarzac725]

I moved here to the Villages in 2005 when I was 46. That was in June.

Have met a lot of younger Villagers who took early retirement.

My 224 613 Project has had a lot of costs but also rewards. Pushing it on many librarians starting in 1989 or so did limit my opportunities. The law librarian convention was in Reno, Nevada in July or so of 1989 so it brought back a lot of memories related to my birthday of 2-24 and my teen and early 20s years in Reno, Nevada.

Just writing why I came to the Villages in 2005 from Palm Harbor, FL where I had also been working on getting the librarians in the Tampa Bay area evaluating their collections for people drawn unwillingly into the legal system like survivors/victims of crimes. Kind of shut a lot of doors there, too, but opened windows.

Back to this show. Loved many of the movies the host of America Says is in. John Michael Higgins - Wikipedia

I saw one of the Pitch Perfect movies he was in at a movie theater outside of Washington D.C. in 2015.
Pitch Perfect 2 - Wikipedia

And the other ones here in the Villages.

I did not start using 613 in my work until after I started a 17 week study on stress on the unemployed conducted by the University of California, San Francisco Health Sciences Campus in late 1992-1993. I would put these two numbers 224 and 613 in much of the correspondence about the accessibility of practical information for survivors/victims of crimes.

[Taltarzac725]

John Michael Higgins - Wikipedia

I love it when the contestants start talking about some of his movies. Quite fun! And brings back A LOT of positive memories for me.

His movie about the dog show was hilarious. This is Best in Show from 2000.

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by Velvet

Sorry, but I like to hear the reasoning behind an opinion. It’s easy to skip a post if you have no patience or any other reason.

The local Villages' area librarians have always been friendly and professional to me and the Villages Daily Sun did an article on my work in 2007 on Memorial Day. The journalist who wrote it wanted to see my files on the 224 613 Project but I just met him a few hours earlier and said "No". He moved a number of years ago but I would often see his wife at Doggie Doo Run Run. She was a very nice Asian American lady. They had a very friendly pooch named Boo Radley.

He did a lot of articles on local basketball history when he was at The Villages Daily Sun. He also was interested in The Groveland 4 and wrote a book on it.

He made the Villages look good. I even liked his multi-part article on Big Foot.

[Charsaunt]

We've all heard the STD references though the White Power one is new to me. Have never personally had any run in with either here. For those of you complaining about lack of diversity here, come up with solutions to something you perceive as a problem. Currently on our street a neighbor has a new wife from Thailand and she has been welcomed with open arms by everyone. We all admire her spunk in navigating all the pitfalls of the English language. If other Asian neighbors moved in they would also be welcomed. This goes for Black and any other race, creed, religion, whatever. They would be welcomed and invited to the driveway parties.

The fact that we are mostly White in The Villages does NOT mean we are racist!!! If other races choose to come here, we'd welcome them. The question now is how to attract them. When you encounter these racist remarks from outsiders to our community, defend The Villages. This is now your home! Tell them the truth - all are welcome. No crosses are ever burned on anyone's lawn.

If you don't believe in the good will of this place and if you won't defend it to those with no knowledge of how things work here then, honestly, why do you call The Villages home???

[gbs317]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Really enjoy this Game Show Network program and the host is quite fun.

If they asked "What would you think of first if I said 'The Villages?"; what would be your responses?

My home.