And many of us are blessed to know you. It is people like YOU who make this place my favorite place ever to live.

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No regrets. Moved here in 2012 as a married couple. Now single. Same house different life. Was keithwand. Love it here.

Research, research, research. If you didn't before you purchased, shame on you. The fact that we're among people within our own age group says a lot. I love the place and the way it's maintained. Not to mention all the activities that are available. You just have to get up off yer butt and try living! Too many people are complaining from their armchairs. Just saying.

I purchased our first home In Village of Charlotte 2012. Everyone was saying the same about stopping. I spent 40 years in sales. That is the normal pitch when you have great demand. As long as the Morse family can get land, water and roads and sell the homes as quickly as they do they will build.....

Only regret is we don't have a Costco but there are several only 50 minutes away. I do have a concern that with the continued building it will be more difficult to play a Championship course. I just hope TV management keeps up building enough golf courses to keep up with Winter demand.

My only regret is that this place isn't located in California. Or... Hawaii!

Of course, it is hot in summertime in TV, but it is even hotter in St. Louis! So we are "Heat-birds" and going out, mostly traveling north (Canada) or Europe in summertime.

You mean the executive golf courses, right? The Championship Courses Winter Rates go effect today. To play 18 holes will cost you $45 at any course south of 466 except Palmer, that course is $51. You can always become a Priority Member for the annual fee of $740 for a single and $925 for a couple. That would knock your green fees down to $33 except at Palmer $39.

In high season, come January 1st until the end of April green fees on those same courses will be $55 and Palmer $60. From January to April 30th you can play Palmer and any of those courses just about anytime you want, in fact Oct, Nov and Dec you can get just about anytime you want. That's one of the reasons the executives are so crowded. What my neighbor and I do, is to play 9 holes for about $22 to $27 depending on the month. We're done in 2 hours but it's the way it is.

http://www.golfthevillages.com/image...Golf-Rates.pdf

Golf The Villages

So many days in the summer in the 90"s but afternoon clouds and occasional rains make outdooor more pleasant

No regrets. Came here 16 years ago at 46. Still love it even after losing my husband to cancer. You get used to the heat after about 4-5 summers. I honestly enjoy the summers now. This is a great place to live. Don't listen to the grumpy people. Life here is good. Enjoy it as long as you can.

Regrets???? Are you kidding??? This is the best move I've ever made in my life.

OhioBuckeye
 

We too are from Ohio & I agree with you exactly. My thoughts are a lot of people haven't lived here long enough to see the real Florida life or like you said Fred they're richer than some of us. We also are looking for another home in Ohio. Yea, I agree I hate the cold in the north but like a lot of people I have my reasons not to stay here. When we moved here one of the first things the sales office told us was, "If you want to sell your home here in a couple of yrs. it'll sell in a heartbeat", not true. With 20 or 30,000 homes up for sale here all the time your home isn't all that easy to sell. Other than that & not getting into a bunch more neg. comments TV isn't a bad place to live, but then again the ones that love it here, we don't know their life style where they came from maybe they lived in a rough neighborhood. I'm going to enjoy it here as long as I can. I look at TV as an extended vacation.

We are from the Northeast. I expected the Summer to be worse. I guess I just needed some extra vitamin D. Maybe next year I will feel different, but for now we love it. We absolutely have no regrets. We have been here for 6 months and I still feel like I am on vacation.

There are those who will never see reality because their rose colored glasses obscure the view. TV has gotten too big and too corporate, wish I had known what I know now before buying. And then there is the Villages Health Care System debacle.

Heat?!...what heat???...I detect a lack of cold...

Terribly Hot Here in the Summer - Don't come!
 

It's terribly hot here in the summer. You could deeply regret it if you do. It's better not to come over the summer. You can't even breathe outside between 10 am and 9 pm. (P.S. My hubby told me to say that because summer used to be so quiet, peaceful, and fun, but with all the growth, it's starting to become just as busy and crowded as Jan. thru April.) :-(

So true Fred. I do understand the competing with the developer. When you see new concrete courtyards for 191K, I would think it difficult to sell a used one all things being the same. When you compare a brand new home versus an aged one, not that the aged one is bad, but I would think most people would buy the brand new home. I know people will argue the location point, bond VS no bond, added improvements. But all locations in The Villages have there benefit and are good. I think the developer is successful because they know to keep the new ones priced right under the resales.

Depends
 

If 7 months of temperatures in the 90s with high humidity doesn't bother you, then you'll love The Villages. It's a beautiful place with more amenities than you can imagine, friendly people (mostly), loads of activities, and lots of golf courses (if you're a golfer). If, on the other hand, you like moderate summers and cool fall nights, forget Florida--period. As one who hated winter, I moved here enthusiastically from northeast Ohio to escape the snow and ice, but after 12 years, I find myself yearning for cool autumns and white Christmases-- so much so that I spend a lot of money (airfare, hotels, meals, etc.) visiting our kids in the northeast at those times to get a little taste. That's one way to handle the yearning, but I still hate the brutal summers here. Who wants to stay indoors every day after 8:00 a.m. because of the heat? Unfortunately, we couldn't be snowbirds, or we would have opted for that.
As for the squares, in the beginning I was excited at the prospect of having fun there almost every night, but I find that for me and my neighbors who have lived here a while, the luster has worn off. Large crowds and too much drinking have driven us away. The Villages is not what it used to be when the crowds were smaller and you could dine pretty much anywhere, even during snowbird season, without crowds. But if you haven't lived here a while, you won't know the difference, so none of this might bother you. Just want to give an honest answer to your question.

If you like freezing your buttox off, stay up north. WE MOVED FROM MICHIGAN, AND I DON'T MISS IT AT ALL. I LOVE IT IN FLORIDA- THAT'S WHY THEY INVENTED AIR CONDITIONING

Air Conditioner
 

You are spot on regarding air conditioning. It wasn't until the early 60's until air conditioning really became affordable and available to most everybody. The population of Florida was less than 5 million in 1960. By 2000 it reached 16 million. The latest population figures show 20.61 million in 2016.
Air conditioners made much of this population increase possible.

How many would call Florida home without it?

Moved to villages 2004
 

I'M SORRY SORRY SORRY WE MOVED HERE, IN 2004, TOLD BY THE VILLAGE PEOPLE ONLY BUILDING TO 466A BE OUT OF HERE 2013-2014. THE NEW BREED ARE RUDE DON'T CARE ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE NO RESPECT, SO MANY PEOPLE MOVING OUT, ME TOO.:bigbow::a040::MOJE_whot:

We're all free to leave, but to say that a lot of people are moving out is a bit silly seeing as how we have been the fastest growing metropolitan area every year for the past several years.

Are you saying that no one wants to live here anymore because it's too crowded?

Well said. It is hot here almost all the time. Unbearable in the spring, summer and fall.
Winters are great.

No regrets here. I pay attention to my needs and wants, which are more than fulfilled here. I have the home I want in the area I love, so what do I care how many homes they build, how much they sell for, or all the other " wo is me" stuff. As long as you're happy, enjoy what life you have left and don't sweat the things that REALLY don't concern you. As far as home values.... Your kids will probably dump the house when you die anyway..... :)

We Still maintain a home north, so summers like many can be a get out of dodge situation. Traffic, crowds, waiting for a restaurant are irrelevant, up north, 10 miles can take me 15 minutes or an hour depending on the time of day, if we don’t make a reservation for dinner we will wait up to 2 hours.

TV isn’t any different than other places, I am pretty sure if we sell up north I will never forget how long everything took. Of course retirement means you have 24 hours a day to do what you want, no worries on trying to schedule around that 12 hour shift.

No regret. We travel and live abroad in Asia, Costa Rica for 5 years. We regret not to live here sooner. This is the Life Style I want. I have an option seat at home, or attend to zumba, yoga,line dance, golf,tennis, pickel ball.At night go to square lsten to live music, did not cost me any thing. When I get really old, can not drive the car I still can drive the golf cart to grocery, restaurant to maintain my independent.

Not being able to build the style of home I preferred on Lake Miona with a dock and such, otherwise quite content. I wish they would pick-up my storm refuse though, I am not going to break the rules and dump it by the mailbox. I also wish the roadways and cart paths were not continually wet with sprinkler water fouling my vehicles, otherwise....happy camper. They do a great job otherwise, thank you very much.

And IMHO, if you are here for the long haul, your highlighted sentence says it all. Now you can also add in that Publix are delivering orders.

In my opinion, if a person doesn't golf, doesn't enjoy driving a golf cart along the beautiful golf cart trails, belong to some clubs, enjoy the rec centers, attend some square celebrations, look around and see all the beauty that The Villages gives to a person and more, then I guess it's not worthy for a person to live and own a home here.

Sounds great!

The right place in California is heaven, spent most of my life there. 73-75 all year around. I also lived in Hawaii where the scenery is nice, but unless you have any amount of local blood life there is tough, and tremendously expensive. When we sold in CA and moved here we said that is it for a while. This was the first summer in 5 the temperature and humidity did not beat me up so bad. Happy! A place like this in HI or CA would be prohibitively expensive, plus property taxes are enough to scare you

We moved here from S. Fl and are quite happy. We have friends from our old neighborhood who moved to a golf community in Naples as they didn’t want to be so far from their kids. Very understandable. But they are bored there. Nothing to do but golf they say. They have one golf course, one pool & one country club. I am usually taking part in clubs/activities @ probably an average of 3 or 4 different rec centers in a week. I think there is no place that can compare to The Villages.

The Bloom
 

After six plus years... The bloom is off the rose

Totally agree Bare .... and now you mention reading which brings to mind the Village LIBRARY, and what a great library it is, they can and will get you anything and everything to make it possible to enjoy sitting and reading. Just another plus to living here.