[loucard]

We plan to buy real soon unless someone can recommend a cure for whatever we caught the first time we visited the Villages. I have even been in the jungles of Viet Nam without catching anything that I could not shake. There must be someone out there that can talk us out of this with something negative about The Villages. Help us fast.

Lou & Patti

[Sgt Mac]

Do It :bigthumbsup:

Da Sgt

[graciegirl]

It is a GREAT idea and just keep being infected with TVfever!

[samhass]

Lou, I regret to tell you there is no cure. You just buy and live with the pain of beautiful weather, countless activities and more new friends than you can count. We're afflicted!!

[livsea2]

Lou, there are a few big negatives but the positive aspects far out weigh them. I think your "disease" will turn out good for you. ;D

[efrahin]

Loucard: It must be something in the water, my wife is complaining that I got enamoured with TV at first sight. I have reduce my house by 20% and still no sale. I dont think there is a antidote for this.

[Peachie]

We would like to help, Lou and Patti, but it's a slippery slope... We bought on our 4th visit, 7 yrs sooner than we should have even thought about purchasing. Buyer's remorse when we got home and hubby came down 4 months later to relist the new villa, couldn't talk himself into it when he saw it and The Villages again and I agreed, we wouldn't sell. Two yrs later, we still own it and haven't looked back since. We have the nicest neighbors and a fellow Villager we met at Home Depot, when we were setting up housekeeping the following spring, offered to delivery some cabinets to our door so we wouldn't have to rent a truck. He wouldn't take a penny and went wayyy out of his way to help us out. So jump in with both feet and enjoy the splash!!

[redwitch]

All I can say is welcome to the crowd. It does seem to be an incurable affliction. No idea how we got it, but here we be.

Met with a new client yesterday. Her husband came down here a few months ago to visit a friend and play some golf (they own property in Naples and Detroit). He called her on his last day to let her know he bought them a new home. Guess who's now renting out their home in Naples and praying for retirement? She wasn't even mad that he bought the place without her after her first visit here.

[nONIE]

Loucard,

No sense fighting the inevitable, This is a battle you wont win, go with the flow and I doubt you will have any regrets! ;D

[chelsea24]

No cure for this I'm afraid. You are doomed to a life of happiness, love, friendship and beauty in TV. Wish I could help you but we fell in love with it on our first visit and bought on our second a few months later. You poor, poor thing! It's hopeless. YEAH! 040 C'mon down!

[Barefoot]

Three days into our first visit to TV, my husband and I both fell in love with TV. But he is a cautious sort, and kept saying "We're only here to look, right dear?" While I was sneaking out the door to sign an Offer! We both agree it's the best decision we ever made. There is nothing equivalent to TV in all of North America. The only negative I can think of is that there isn't enough time and energy to do everything you want to do!

[Talk Host]

What you have contracted is controlled only by membership on Talk of The Villages. In order for you to control the condition, you must move here and continue to be an active member. It is a support group for Village Residents. You must also tell your real estate agent that Talk of The Villages was a big factor in your decision to move here. ;D :#1:

[Russ_Boston]

When you find the cure please share it with me so I can stop crying myself to sleep every night! The winter is coming, The winter is coming :'( :'(

[rshoffer]

Originally Posted by loucard

We plan to buy real soon unless someone can recommend a cure for whatever we caught the first time we visited the Villages. I have even been in the jungles of Viet Nam without catching anything that I could not shake. There must be someone out there that can talk us out of this with something negative about The Villages. Help us fast.

Lou & Patti

Forget it... there's NO cure. It only gets worse as time passes. I can see you now, glued to TV website, salivating over the homes, not sleeping... Do what we did (and we were NOT ready to retire)... we sold EVERYTHING, found positions in the area, bought a wonderful home and moved in June 6th... and we haven't looked back.

[rwcw]

I've been just lurking for a while but I think it's important for prospective Florida residents to understand that it is terribly hot during June, July, August and September. The Gulf of Mexico water temperature gets up over 90 degrees this time of the year off of St Petersburg. We lived there for six and a half years and two more years in Jacksonville. There are insects called Palmetto bugs that are as big as your thumb that you will sooner or later run into, probably in your house, because they come in as eggs on the items that were stored in the back room of the grocery store or in a warehouse somewhere. There are love bugs that will defile the front of your car. There are poisonous snakes and alligators in Florida. You will most likely encounter them sooner or later in the Villages if you go near the water or into the woods. Cotton mouth moccasins, Pygmy and diamond back rattlesnakes and coral snakes. Sink holes are common in Florida. Of course you'll have your hurricane stories to tell if you live here long enough. My experience has been that the medical facilities and personnel have a tough time keeping up with the population growth which leads to some less than great practitioners. We had a Cuban doctor and a couple of interns when we lived in St Pete and had a very unsatisfactory situation occur with an oncologist in Jacksonville. My mother and father in law lived in Bellview in a trailer (right across from what was then Orange Blossom Hills) and we swore at the time we'd never live in that part of Florida again.

My folks came down before me over in Deltona when it was a new Mackle Brothers development and later moved to Sun City near Tampa when Mackle moved on and the golf club privatized and decided that the residents could no longer use their own carts on the course but had to use theirs for a fee. My sister raised her kids in Winter Park and now lives over on the east coast in Sebastian.

Even understanding exactly what I'll be getting my wife and myself into, we're heading on down from our PA home for a preview visit in October with the intention of getting serious about moving to the Villages. My wife's brother and his wife live there now and have for five or six years. I'm looking forward to golf, golf, golf and oh yes, did I mention golf when we get there. I'm 70 now so it's abut time I decide what I'm going to do when I grow up.