[jebartle]

I think it's probably too late to keep TV a secret, but I promise to not mention this place to a soul....Driving home from Home depot WAS a quick ride, maybe 10 minutes most,, now add snowbirds and general traffic and this place is "BONKERS", now 30 minutes.

[Stu from NYC]

We had a gate?

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by jebartle

I think it's probably too late to keep TV a secret, but I promise to not mention this place to a soul....Driving home from Home depot WAS a quick ride, maybe 10 minutes most,, now add snowbirds and general traffic and this place is "BONKERS", now 30 minutes.

Like 25 years too late? Get use to it, only going to get worse. You see all apartments popping up around villages like mushrooms?

[coralway]

Originally Posted by jebartle

I think it's probably too late to keep TV a secret, but I promise to not mention this place to a soul....Driving home from Home depot WAS a quick ride, maybe 10 minutes most,, now add snowbirds and general traffic and this place is "BONKERS", now 30 minutes.

Without the snowbirds and the $$$$ and business they bring, there wouldn't be a Home Depot for you to drive home from.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by coralway

Without the snowbirds and the $$$$ and business they bring, there wouldn't be a Home Depot for you to drive home from.

True but still waiting for our Costco

[mikreb]

COSTCO! Did someone say Costco? Where? Beside the Home Depot is what I'm hearing.

[billethkid]

Originally Posted by coralway

Without the snowbirds and the $$$$ and business they bring, there wouldn't be a Home Depot for you to drive home from.

Bee eye en gee oh!
And many other national brand stores that have come .....because of the right mass and mix!

[Laker14]

Originally Posted by jebartle

I think it's probably too late to keep TV a secret, but I promise to not mention this place to a soul....Driving home from Home depot WAS a quick ride, maybe 10 minutes most,, now add snowbirds and general traffic and this place is "BONKERS", now 30 minutes.

an extra 20 minutes? Not too steep a price to pay to not be up north in February.
Burn one, and chill. It will all be alright.

[EdFNJ]

Originally Posted by jebartle

I think it's probably too late to keep TV a secret, but I promise to not mention this place to a soul....Driving home from Home depot WAS a quick ride, maybe 10 minutes most,, now add snowbirds and general traffic and this place is "BONKERS", now 30 minutes.

The construction on 441 at Home Depot makes it worse than it usually would be. In 15 years if we're lucky when construction is done your trip will go down to 20 minutes. They still have to remove and rebuild that bridge. Start a pool? I'm in and picking the end of 2024!

[vb993]

Well the snowbirds are crowding the streets only because someone allowed a developer to build a massive housing development where they all could sleep. Prevent them from sleeping in your community and they will go away.

[Laker14]

Originally Posted by vb993

Well the snowbirds are crowding the streets only because someone allowed a developer to build a massive housing development where they all could sleep. Prevent them from sleeping in your community and they will go away.

they were supposed to stop developing once I got in.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by Laker14

they were supposed to stop developing once I got in.

Did you get it in writing?

[Garywt]

I always smile when people complain about traffic. Of course the snowbirds are blamed even know with all the money and support they give. But that aside I have never seen any bad traffic in and around The Villages in my 8 years of visiting and living there. Now when a 20 minute ride on a weekend turns into a 2-3 hour ride during rush hour, now that is traffic. Sitting on a highway and not moving for 5-10 minutes, traffic. Trying to take a short cut and taking 10-15 light cycles to get through is traffic.

For anyone among us that has driven in Mass, NY, DC, LA and probably a dozen other places know traffic. The Villages does not have traffic, sorry.

Anyway, enjoy your time and don’t sweat the little things.

[davem4616]

noticing the heavy traffic as well....but at 8:40pm tonight coming back from the Savannah Center the roads were empty

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by davem4616

noticing the heavy traffic as well....but at 8:40pm tonight coming back from the Savannah Center the roads were empty

Since curfew is 9 pm not surprised at all