What Do you Miss The most?
 

I recently notice that some posters have said they missed something from their previous residence after moving to TV.

What is one thing you wished hadn't changed after moving to TV?

Well, these are just a few things that I miss,...my finished basement, workshop area, and outdoor storage buildings....most of us gave up some guy space to be here in paradise.. :sigh:

miss !!!!!!
 

Nothing, Nada, I don't miss anything. If I did, I would not have moved :)

And besides, if I missed it that much, I would go back.....

Flame suit installed and working well :popcorn:

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Since I don't yet own a home in the villages, perhaps I am not qualified to respond ...... but I will. My wife and I have lived in 14 different places in our 44 years of marriage, and I miss something about every place we have lived. That being said, I have always found something I liked better about every place we moved to as well. I cannot imagine moving anyplace and not missing anything, whether it be something about the house, the friends and neighbors, the kids and grandkids, the scenery, some stores or resturaunts, or a combination of these or other things. The secret to happiness is not that you miss things in the past, it's that you always find something new to enjoy and make you happy where you are. It seems sad to me, and virtually impossible, that anyone would miss nothing about their past life experiences. Every time we come to TV we have a ball and enjoy all the things there that are unavailable where we live, the weather, the squares, the resturaunts, the shopping, the people of our age, the golf, the swimming etc. etc. We will one day own a home in the villages, hopefully this year, but we will also have a home in Missouri where we will split time, being close to our three kids and six grandkids. We think that is the best of all worlds for us, but I still kind of miss my lake cottage in Minnesota.

I didn't say I missed it bad enough to go back!:icon_wink: Let's see,...here's some things I don't miss:

1. Snow & ice.
2. Long, gray winter days.
3. Dry sinuses from breathing heated air all winter long.

:blahblahblah:

I moved down from the Minneapolis area and I miss so much about it. It was a great lifestyle and a wonderful place to rear a family. Great sports town. Great weekend events. Great shopping great people. Minneapolis/St Paul and surroiunding cities would not let their towns deteriorate. Miss my big house
But we all seem to remeber the good and forget the bad.

so what would I say itfI moved from The villages to somewhere else? Great weather, great golf, great people nice house dancing at the square. Hmmmmm

I have been here for four weeks now. I miss seeing my "kids". That is it...I do not miss a thing! I still can't believe that I am here permanently and never have to end this vacation we are on! :a040::MOJE_whot: Have I mentioned how happy I am?

I miss having a decent newspaper delivered to my home every morning; a paper with unbiased local and national coverage and good columnists.

Almost every newspaper has a political bias. Other than it's obvious Republican slant, I think the Sun is a good paper. You came from a place with a paper that had a Democratic slant I am betting.

I thought I would miss our bigger house and our basement, but Sweetie put in tons of shelves in garage and closets so it is better than I thought for storage. I really do not miss anything in our house that we got rid of. I miss our grandchildren, but I would be missing them if we were in Cincinnati. They have gone away to college.

things missed
 

Walking in the nearby woods and seeing deer, fox, etc. and without the fear of snakes or alligators.

Autumn colors

Old friends

The first snowfall (only the first, not the rest!)

A decent hoagie

:)

Ha! We haven't had a "first snowfall" yet this winter. We leave for TV with stops in Memphis, Alabama, and St. Augustine on Saturday, and will not have snow before then. Can't say I have missed it.

Since we are not there yet, here's what I'm going to miss....

My family
Beautiful Lake George
The Adirondack Balloon Festival...none like you've ever seen. 100 glorious hot air balloons launch from our local, small airport. It's breathtaking.
Friends
Having dinner on the lake

Here's what I WON"T miss...

Living in a very poor community - Lots and lots of public assistance
People who wear their Pajamas to go out to dinner, shopping,
People who don't keep themselves up...no shave, no hair cut, dirty clothes
Run down, rusty vehicles
Rude people
Smart ass kids (excuse my language)
Snow, sleet, freezing rain, the cold weather
Dirt on all of the roads from salting and sanding during the winter
Dry skin
NYS TAXES

I really can't wait to live in TV!!

REALLY like living here...no more snow and cold!!!

That being said---miss seeing the kids more regularily, miss the Spring flowers (bulb plants and lilacs), miss the song-birds! Gave more than one thing, didn't I? But not enough to want to leave things here and move back north!!!!

I happen to agree with you and that's why I subscribe to Wall Street Journal, Orlando sentinel and the Economist

I have been to our home in TV often enough to know you will not miss:
Living in a very poor community - Lots and lots of public assistance outside of TV
People who wear their Pajamas to go out to dinner, shopping,
People who don't keep themselves up...no shave, no hair cut, dirty clothes
Run down, rusty vehicles
Rude people
Smart ass kids (excuse my language)

These kind of things exist outside of TV.
That being said, I bet you will be to busy to notice them.

Absolutely love The Sagamore; have heard that it is not owned by the same people and has changed in the last few year.

I love the book "Sarah, Plain and Tall" and in it Sarah says about leaving her old home in Maine, "there's always something to miss" and I agree with that but I have to say that although I have not moved down to TV yet (we own but rent out our house and it's killing me but practical for us at this point) I know I will not miss too much about living up north. I am not going to miss the cold; my joints already ache every day this winter. I won't miss this giant house when it comes to cleaning day. I won't miss going to work every single day when I'd rather be playing and I know that all of you are! I won't miss the lousy restaurants and terrible food this area has so I'd rather cook at home most nights. I won't miss the mostly 30something people I associate with and the lack of friends my age. I will miss the acreage my dogs have to run around in, but I am confident that with a bit of extra effort the dog parks will take up the slack for that. I will miss the extra storage and a basement but it will force me not to accumulate junk and to reevaluate what I really need. I will miss the wall space for the art I have spent a lifetime accumulating but I am sure I will work it out by the time I move down full time. I'll miss my kids but I know that they'll visit, and we talk a lot by phone now anyway and that won't change. Overall, I am sure that it's all worth it or I wouldn't dream of TV by night and daydream about it all day.

Wide open spaces, deviod of the stentch of humans.

Morganton, NC was a cute little town
 

wih 4 mild seasons, a wonderful Donald Ross golf course with plush bermuda fairways but more than that wonderful wonderful friends that now have a place to visit in our new piece of heaven, here in The Villages...The big homes are a thing of the past, now it's time to transition into a life of pure joy and more wonderful Village friends.

To cynbod. I really liked you post seeing that you have made 60 post I would like to know where outside TV you have seen all this I have live here 16 yrs and I haven't seen the mess that you are reporting. If you don't think some of the items you are talking about don't exist in TV you are in a different world than I. If all this exist outside TV why do people living in TV go outside to eat, shop, church, and many other things. Your post surly does more harm than any good many many people lived here before TV arrived and to try to tear down the area outside TV sure leaves hard feelings . Maybe a person with you thought should stay inside the bubble and just hope everything you need will be supplied there. Remember there was a world before TV.

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The Sagamore
 

I did forget the Sagamore. It was taken over by a new owner but still so beautiful. And you are right, I will be too busy to notice some things around me.

:agree:

A good pizza

"What is one thing you wished hadn't changed after moving to TV?"

Having kids around.


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Would love to know where you found such a paper
... Was not Atlanta!

You can now have the New York Times delivered to your home every day - this is new, couldn't have it when I moved here 2 years ago.

My friends, mountains, sourdough bread, Gallo salame and good Chinese. I'll always be homesick for the Bay Area but I'll never regret moving here.

My friends, my grandchildren, good restaurants, good diners, good Chinese, good FOOD, soft water that tastes good, the ocean. the Chesapeke Bay, live theater, live music. good radio stations, Jersey corn and tomatoes, shopping other than chain and Big Box, little specialty groceries and bakeries,Trader Joe's, big pine trees, fruit and vegetable farms with roadside stands, a library system with more than 5 million books many of them old and out of print. Walking in a city with fresh snow falling. Driving or sailing along the coast of Connecticut and Rhode Island. Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket. Block Island. The Hamptons.
Sorry, you asked.

What did you delete Sky? What, what, what? It had to be good.

With all the things you have listed, Are you still happy with your decision to move to The Villages?

Yep. Best decision I ever made. I just wish I had the wherewithal to be a snowbird.

The Tampa Bay Times, Florida's largest newspaper.

Sorry, I'm not spilling the beans, and I don't kiss and tell as well! :ohdear:

Good restaurants, Costco, Trader Joes, and fall colors. All the things I don't miss would take too long to list!