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I am a single man and would like to know about the baby boomers club or get togethers? Can anyone give me some information on where and when they meet? Thanks Tom

Every Thursday, the weekly Recreation News is published which lists the The Villages clubs and upcoming meetings. You can pick up the rec news at any rec center in The Villages. It is also published in PDF format on The Villages web site, then click on the Recreation tab, then click on Recreation Activities, look for Recreation Downloads, Recreation News & Activities. Hope that helps.

The Singles Baby Boomers meet the first Thursday of every month at Seabreeze Rec Center. New members sign up at 6:30. The Mixer starts at 7:00. You must be born between 1946 and 1964 in order to join. The next Mixer is Thursday, May 2. For the May Mixer, the band The Sixties will be playing.

Thanks Debbie, I have to run back up north to get my dog and so will miss the May mixer but will be there for June's. Hope to see all then:crap2:

Look for " Villages Single Baby Boomers Club ". You can find info in any weekly copy of the Recreation News which comes out Thursday`s in the Village Sun . Or you can pick up a copy at most Rec Centers . They have various activities nearly everyday .
Also they have a meeting the first week of every month at the Sea Breeze Rec Center .

Can anyone tell me what goes on at these single club meetings and roughly how many attend? It's always intimidating to walk in cold. I don't care how old you are, male or female.

Katie

Kathie,

Thanks, you guys are super. How do you decide which singles group to join? A club with 500 members - especially if most of them show up - hardly seems conducive to making friends - I can't help but imagine it as some kind if 'meat market' - Do we still use that term?

Katie

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At the one mixer I attended, it will stay one, I was left to fend for myself, introduced to no one, felt more alone than if I would have stayed at home

It is always difficult for me the first time I attend a singles function where I literally know no one. When I went to meetings of two of the singles groups we all sat at long tables in groups of six or eight. I actually talked to only a handful of people and I was OK with that. I was totally new and wanted to look around and get a feel for what was happening - and I did.

Wherever one goes it takes time to meet and get to know people, but in The Villages it is much, much easier because so many people are in or have been in the same boat.

By the way, these meeting did not feel like any meat market to me and I have been to plenty of those!

Hopefully this fall I will be a full-time TV resident. I purchased my home in TV in July of 11 and have only been able to vacation for a week or two. I plan to make the leap and retire Sept. or Oct. As a single guy I am encouraged by what I have read on TOTV regarding activities for singles to meet others for numerous activities. Dancing isn't my thing (wish I took care of the knees in the earlier years) and is about the only activity to meet others in their 50's in this area. I appreciate everybody's inputs and am really looking forward to getting down there permanently.

Did you end up going to the BB Club?
 

Tom,

It's been awhile since anyone posted to this thread and I just wondered if you ever got to one of the singles club meetings? How did it turn out?

Katie

manabout, I like smaller gatherings. So when you get in town, yell at me and we'll have lunch.
Kitty

I'm having a potluck party mostly for new singles on Sat., May 18.evening. pm for details. I get lost in the crowd...
Kitty

Thank you for the invite, Kitty. I look forward to it.