Originally Posted by j_vermilya (Post 1889661)

It's our fourth winter here, we live here full time. I see much harder to get tee times, much heavier traffic, and many other changes that I have never noticed before when the snowbirds return. I think it's all due to the fact that we have grown exponentially in the home building, but not in shops, restaurants, golfing, amenties that should go with it...and I am getting quite concerned....your thoughts?

Originally Posted by j_vermilya (Post 1889661)

It's our fourth winter here, we live here full time. I see much harder to get tee times, much heavier traffic, and many other changes that I have never noticed before when the snowbirds return. I think it's all due to the fact that we have grown exponentially in the home building, but not in shops, restaurants, golfing, amenties that should go with it...and I am getting quite concerned....your thoughts?

Originally Posted by LiverpoolWalrus (Post 1889691)

No need to go that far. With the exception of this winter, I spend my winter months just a three and a half hour drive away in southeast Florida where the temperatures are often a whopping 10-20 degrees higher than the frigid Villages.

Example: this morning it was 46 degrees in the Villages and 65 degrees in Ft Lauderdale.

Originally Posted by coffeebean (Post 1889897)

I don't think that is what this thread is about........unless you can take the bike paths to local restaurants, retail stores, medical buildings, etc.

Originally Posted by Gunny2403 (Post 1890064)

Name alternative communities please

Originally Posted by ts12755 (Post 1890009)

Thank goodness covid is here or it would be worse. Usually much worse than what's going on this Snowbird season.

Originally Posted by j_vermilya (Post 1889661)

It's our fourth winter here, we live here full time. I see much harder to get tee times, much heavier traffic, and many other changes that I have never noticed before when the snowbirds return. I think it's all due to the fact that we have grown exponentially in the home building, but not in shops, restaurants, golfing, amenties that should go with it...and I am getting quite concerned....your thoughts?

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC (Post 1889694)

OK I will bite what is a FROG?

Originally Posted by LiverpoolWalrus (Post 1889691)

No need to go that far. With the exception of this winter, I spend my winter months just a three and a half hour drive away in southeast Florida where the temperatures are often a whopping 10-20 degrees higher than the frigid Villages.

Example: this morning it was 46 degrees in the Villages and 65 degrees in Ft Lauderdale.

Originally Posted by justjim (Post 1889856)

We have been in TV fourteen and half years. Yes, lots of changes, building construction and it’s been fun to watch. Sumter Landing was new in 2006 and we were on a “waiting list” for a Villa in the village of Caroline. We were in our Villa and enjoying the village lifestyle when a devastating tornado hit The Villages and Lady Lake on Groundhog Day 2007. Homes two blocks from us were completely destroyed. You can Google for details but about 100 houses were rebuilt in The Villages along with Mallory Hill Country Club, a recreation Center, courtyard fences, etc. Just north of forty Villagers needed hospital treatment but no deaths in The Villages. Perhaps this say something about how well our homes are constructed. As I remember, nine deaths in Lady Lake and seventy or so total deaths across Central Florida from this tornado on Groundhog Day in 2007.

Brownwood was maybe in somebody’s imagination and there were no homes south of 466A when we moved to the Village of Hadley in 2009. We now live in a designer home where we were among the first to build south of 466A. We are Sunbirds who go North in the summer for a couple of months but happy Florida and Village residents.

OP, when more businesses become available south of 44 traffic on Morse Blvd. will remain “busy” during the winter months, lighter the rest of the year and the golf courses “busy” during the winter months and much lighter the rest of the year. Growth has its issues but I’m confident that The Villages will be up to the task in the future as it has in the past.

Traffic does seem a bit heavier on Morse Blvd. Some of the new traffic is Residents from the new Villages south of 44 coming up north to shop. Eventually, if we live long enough, we may be traveling south on Morse Blvd to shop down there. Because of COVID 19, we have some new golfers mostly on the executive courses. This pandemic too will pass and “normal” will return. One thing for sure, it will never be boring here in The Villages, Florida. Fore.