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Originally Posted by Kenswing
(Post 2194289)
Maybe outside of The Villages. But inside there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 250 courts and counting. They have been busy for years. Don’t see that changing in the foreseeable future.
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All these years since we moved here, not seen even a TINY reduction in the traffic on the pickle-ball courts, NONE at all. It might be a ""fad" in the "north", but from our view (with experience only in the "south", it sure doesn't look like it compares at all to the other "fads" mentioned ! I will say, when we picked out our lot, some infrastructure was already completed. Specifically, pickle ball courts and the initial foundation for a rec center. My FIRST thought/comment to hubby was, THIS is THE lot for us, back yard would actually adjoin the grounds of the rec center and courts...like having our very own courts. But, we looked for the rest of the day, took the plot map we were given, and later, when privately talking and considering which lot to buy, my tennis player hubby said, "I wonder if pickle ball is as loud as tennis ?" That's when I stopped to think, it's faster with a smaller ball, I would guess it's even LOUDER than an tennis game. Now, all these years later, learning to play ourselves, and having a friend who DID buy a lot adjoining courts, after trying for over 4 years to just get used to the noise which typically began by at least 7 a.m. in the warm months, they finally sold and moved to another location in another village to an existing home... did not build another. Since then, we always tell our visitors, who are thinking about buying a home here, to think DEEPLY about such things as train tracks, tennis and pickle ball courts, swimming pools, golf courses that adjoin a back yard, and homes and villas adjoining the high school stadium. Again, had friends from Mass. to bought a villa directly behind high school stadium thinking, the band, the roar of the crowd, the LIGHTS, only on Friday nights in season would NOT present a problem for them; it never even entered their thoughts that bands do practice many days, not just on march on Friday night, along with many other activities. Suffice to say most people, coming from traditional cities and towns, EVEN if their home is close to a park district or school, are NOT in such close proximity as to feel right ON the field or park like here in the V's. So many might say, "poor planning", they should have "done their homework", but so many would never have an experience that would make them think about homes ever being located to so many distractions...except possible, those who had lived by railroad tracks as I had as a child. We lived 3 blocks north of the major line though town, and in those days, it was not only the NOISE of 3 trains a day, but the SOOT in the air. Mom would send us out to get her fresh laundry OFF the lines before the time the morning and afternoon trains went through.. LOL !
For some, those things would have no effect
