You should fire whoever is providing you information…………..

Ha! Good one! Deplorable conditions but cheap and fun to play. Front nine used to be a theme park, complete with dinosaurs. Most likely the worst course conditions you've ever experienced. You get what you pay for.

From the OP. I’m almost sorry I brought the whole thing up.

Like a North<>South Civil War.

Yikes folks let’s be civil and not throw stones. My intent was simply to provide my personal info on our experience.

Belle Glade isn’t too far. Stop over there or Bonifay or Havana on your way back home! They serve ice cold beer in pitchers! And you can enjoy yourselves!

Simple , go back and read your post. How many controversial statements inciting a response?

No you’re not. You love starting threads like this. lol

Reminds me of another user. Did you have another username before this one?

I'm north of 44 and I'm closer to where they will build the new hospital than you are...

Except about those in the north...

I feel the same way about people in the south who trash people in the north...

But I'm smack dab in the middle so I can trash all of you! :loco::loco::loco:

OK, 83 posts for something that is very simple:

If you don't like Southern Oaks, don't play it
If you don't like the prices at Sawgrass, don't eat/drink there
If you don't like bugs, use a spray or take up mah jong.
If you're looking for champagne on a beer budget, rotsa ruck

Pretty easy, huh?????

Nah, much easier to bitch and moan...

I played Bonifay, back in July. I was also swarmed by those black "mosquitoes" on a few holes. Both times, when it was when I hit a ball down by the water's edge...

I learned to stay away from the water!

It's not just Southern Oaks that has them...

I live in Hawkins, too. The bugs are not bad during the day -- at dusk, they are horrible in Hawkins.

There is noise in Hawkins -- there is nowhere you go in Hawkins that you cannot hear the turnpike -- sometimes it is very minor and other times loud.

St. Johns is worse than Hawkins -- I've walked every inch of both.

No disrespect, but it is like we live in two different Hawkins.

There is a lot to dislike about South of 44 in The Villages -- I won't debate that.

What I do like, which is turning lemons into lemonade, is that my Village is bordered by the Turnpike and a County or State, dunno, protected preserve. There will never be apartments, section 8 housing, Fish Games, multi-generational housing, etc. near my home -- everything is done, landlocked. In 5 years, I won't have to complain about scenic farmland turning into apartments, etc. I don't have to worry about any encroachment -- it cannot happen.

I like that we are closer to the airports, Universal, Disney, Tampa, etc. The turnpike is just a couple of miles away, 75 is just 5 minutes away. Costco, coming to Claremont, is just 40 minutes away. I like Orlando area shopping more than Ocala area shopping.

Shops and stores will come to the south -- Middleton and Eastport areas -- they will be new and clean. There will not be old and dingy communities near the south -- at least, not near the new lands of The Villages. There will be less blending of those communities -- which seems rampant in the north and middle Villages.

There is, genuinely, a LOT to like about the northern Villages, no doubt.

I've just learned to appreciate what I have.

I don't see anything controversial in the OP, unless you find complaining about mosquitos and high prices for beer in plastic cups controversial. I'd bet one of those $7 beers that if the OP had an identical couple of complaints about Lopez, the folks who live north of 466 wouldn't get all upset and take it as a personal affront.

I don't care who lives where, I don't need to bash anyone about their choices, or what they like about their area, and I don't care who doesn't like things about where someone else lives.
As an impartial observer, my take is that any criticism of anything in the newer southern areas is taken as an insult by some who live down there.

Next stop........Disney World!