Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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When we moved into our first home here we met a lot of people, ordinary people, folks like we used to know. One day while chatting with a charming woman neighbor, very like the folks I had always known... I found out that she had been one of the first women navigators with the Air Force and her husband was a retired Air Force pilot. They both retired with the rank of Colonel.
I asked her to tell me one thing that was the most different between her life before and after serving in the Air Force. ( She had never brought it up) She thought about it for awhile and told me that before she retired, that if there was a national crisis, she was on the team who would take the president aloft and that she had access to what we used to call "the red phone". After she retired, she joined a church here in The Villages and waited while a committee discussed whether she should be on the cookies committee for Sunday School. This amazing and very humble woman had raised two lovely children and kept a beautiful marriage going while serving our country doing something truly amazing. You never know what people have done who live here... and most of them are too humble to tell you.
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With all due respect Dr. boogie, you make it seem that TV is all about golf. I cannot imagine anyone playing country club courses every day. The first year I retired I belonged to a local cc and played 180 rounds, and can't imagine playing more than that. I have not approached that amount of play since, and I love to play. When we are in TV we (my friend and I, our wives don't play) play the execs about five times a week on average, a CC course once a month, and off campus once a week. I never have thought of it as sad that we play so often off campus - we like several of the nearby courses, they're easy to get on, affordable, and we meet some nice folks from TV and other nearby retirement communities. The execs in TV are mostly well designed and maintained, and challenging tracks that satisfy our golfing needs on a regular basis, and we usually play only the hardest rated tracks. For most people here golf is probably a part, but a small part, of the attraction, and I still say that people at all ends of the affluence spectrum meld together more seamlessly in TV than anywhere else I have lived - and I have lived a lot of places.
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there most definatly is a class structure, otherwise why would everyone I meet ask me where I live and what model home I have..... |
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Oldcoach Ed "You cannot direct the wind, but you can adjust the sails" "Be yourself - everyone else is taken" |
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Oldcoach Ed "You cannot direct the wind, but you can adjust the sails" "Be yourself - everyone else is taken" |
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When my wife and I are asked where we live and what type of home we have, we'll say, "We live in The Village of St. James and it's a home that's just the right size for us".
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I was trying to say what I felt in my heart and it sounded like preaching.
The people I love most don't care how much money people have. I believe that every person on this earth has some redeeming quality that maybe only God can see. I believe it is my work to try to see what God can see. I fail all of the time. I think that this place was fashioned pretty fairly with all kinds of big and small houses to choose. There are all kinds of people with all kinds of money levels living in all kinds of houses. There is a fair share of hatred and bitterness here, but much more acceptance and tolerance and kindness and patience coming from a lot of life experience. .
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People are people, most realize what we are what we did are more important than what we own,what what we earned is not a measure of what of who we are.my guess is if you move here,you will be like my wife and I best decision ever.
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I named the title "controversial issue". I knew it would bring the best out of people.
![]() Gracie. Can't wait to get there and I would enjoy meeting you both. I know this is the place for me to be, and I knew my mom felt it to when she lived there. We were also coastal people, and even though your inland Florida, it's not as bad as being in TN. I like TN, but just don't feel like it's home and I've been here for 27 years. As far as Sony hiring. That's a big LOL. Their people are obvious slackers, because it really doesn't take that much to protect yourselves. It's always more of trying to convince the unknowns to tie down the system. Most exec's always think "it will never happen to us" and don't want to drop the dime or follow proper procedures. |
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