Operation warp speed has a dreamy, unrealistic sound to it. There IS a good chance that it will happen, but NOT 100%. The virus can mutate. A vaccine may take 2 doses. It will be logistically difficult to transport it - at super cold levels. We are right to be hopeful, but it IS possible that we will have to wake up and wear masks and stay 10ft apart for a long time.

It has a lot to do with restaurants. Mask-wearing and empathy need to be part of the dining out experience. For example, more outdoor seating and less indoor seating. That is a realistic and doable option for restaurants - Florida is warm. The live music could have open seating close up, but sound deadening booths with adjustable volume speakers that customers could adjust to their preference. As long as CV persists ALL society MUST eventually adjust to that new reality. Restaurants are a BIG part of society - particularly here in TV Land.

Happy Hour itself, brings on louder voices (especially the later in happy hour it gets!). Multiply that by them also being close to the music, trying to make sure they are louder than the music to carry on their conversation, and that's what you get. We've been to Nancy Lopez and Arnold Palmer, and didn't have that problem. One of them (can't remember which) had soft background music (not live), which was pleasant, and no loud talking/screaming. I'm sure there are probably others as well. Sorry your evening didn't go as planned. I've been there before, and I feel the same way.

Touché! :1rotfl:

The country clubs have always been notoriously loud/noisy. The way they are built, sound just carries, though especially during happy hour and/or live music. I haven't been to any in ages. I don't enjoy eating outside as it's almost always too freaking hot to even breathe.
Sadly, all the local restaurants that will be participating in the Veterans Day special deals are for dine-in only, so I won't be able to enjoy that this year. Just yet another thing we've had to give up on. Oh well.

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MOVE!!!! I've yet to see a law that states once you move here you have to stay. I'm from Maine and find the villages 100% quieter than my home town of less than 20K.

That’s not why it was leveled. $$$$$

I have to say, that's what was one thing that also attracted me to the Villages. My husband and I came to check out the Villages about 9 years ago or so, we went to a restaurant to get dinner. We were at a booth with a high back. We heard a lot of loud laughing and cheering, etc. and thought it was a bunch of young people and to my surprise , it wasn't ! I thought "how terrific that was" ! They were all having a great time. But I don';t see a lot of rowdy behavior that often.

On our lifestyle visit, hubby and I went to the Lighthouse restaurant. We were about to start eating when the server brought a menu to the next table and when asked she repeated it in such a loud voice I almost fell out of my chair. Hubby said to me, the person she is talking to must be deaf. I don’t know if this was usual but I’ve been taking my earplugs with me just incase.

I do get what you are saying. Been out plenty of times and you will have a group or two acting worse then middle schoolers. One time there was this lady that was so loud there wasn’t a place in the whole restaurant that couldn’t hear her. Some people just not pay attention to how they are acting or how loud they are. And have you notice their the ones that stay there for hours....

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I go out 4 or 5 times a week there are some restaurants that are very loud lighthouse , Cody’s , Red Sauce all fun places and more quiet ones Bonefish, Blue fin , Chops , the country clubs seem to mostly loud and fun , the OP was looking for cheap drinks and quiet I suggest the best place for them is home

The place was a dump, poorly managed and the food was terrible. Thank God it's gone.

Because some miserable people don't want others to evaluate their own risks and live their lives.