Gates
 

You knew what the gates situation was when you bought here so if it bothered you that much why did you move here? I lived in On Top Of The World in Ocala before moving here. They had 3 gates where everyone who was not a resident had to stop and say who they were seeing and the address. Guess what there was a murder in OTOW. No matter where you are you aren't 100% safe.

I so agree that this is a very safe place to live. Everyone I know who lives here with a very few exceptions have the easy to install surveillance camera's on their home for one thing, and I also do think that the constant driving around of The Villages Watch is a very good deterrent as well. All gates have cameras as well.

I also will mention as I have done so many times before, that a lot of these kinds of posts that "stir the pot" are full of half truths or no truth at all, and they are done by troublemakers who do not live here and may be envious of us Villagers.

Lol. I enjoy reading about the dumb criminals in TV. Usually a dui in a golf cart, children of elderly Villagers shoplifting or drugs, or a senile person arguing with a neighbor. If you want to have an early morning laugh just subscribe to the Villagenews.com.

OP complains about multiple things in TV — especially between 700am and 900am.

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...rchid=22698172

Hi Gracie.🙂

The Villages never claimed to be a gated community. The gates are for traffic control only. The roads are all public so you can't restrict who drives on them.

This is an excerpt from "thevillages.com" website:

"The Villages offers many safety and security services including gated neighborhood entries ..."

It doesn't say anything about the gates being used for traffic control. Also, they still claim that The Villages has three movie theaters, which hasn't been true for years.

If you don’t like it
 

Feel free to leave

not exactly. All plates are filmed as they enter and many intersections have cameras to locate the vehicles in question .
Bad guys know this too.

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I have to admit, that is misleading at best. It would certainly lead most people to believe the gates exist for security reasons.
I have a buddy who bought here almost 20 years ago and didn't know until I told him that the streets and roads inside TV are not privately owned. He didn't believe me when I told him.
The fact is the developers have, in more than one way, been misleading at times.

Some people find the separation between what they may have been encouraged to conclude, and the reality, to be off-putting enough to not be happy here. I think encouraging unhappy people to find happiness elsewhere is an appropriate suggestion.

It is not a private gated community. When I moved here in 2001, I was told that the gates are here to slow traffic only. Anyone can enter these gates as the roads are not owned by The Villages. These are county roads and you can not be denied the right to drive on county roads.

Gated community or not I'm pretty sure TV is the most heavily armed area in the world. A criminal would have to be nuts to set up shop here.

Joe

I had a friend at a local dog park who lived or lives in one of the gated senior communities just north of the Villages.

She had been up in arms over a man driving in there after saying he was visiting so-and-so and getting in and then parking in one neighborhood and stealing anything he could get his hands on in houses which looked unoccupied in adjoining neighborhoods. He might have been scouting them out as well.

The community leaders were meeting on how to deal with this. Not sure what happened. It did sound like they tightened security.

This was a single woman with a small dog if my memory is correct. I used to walk around the dog park's 5 acre back field rather often with her.


She was often doing things to improve her community.

Unless there is a 10' high fence topped with concertina wire with guard towers, a guard manning the gate isn't going to stop someone from just walking in somewhere on the unfenced perimeter. Is that how you want to live?

Seems to be more white collar crime and construction crime than anything else

Glass is half full from my perspective.

OP hasn’t posted since his original post- I wonder if this was just “click bait” to elicit all the opposing views on this issue and stir the pot?

U R Learning

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That reminds me of a sign on a business some years ago- "This property is guarded by vicious dogs 3 nights a week. You pick the night."

If people want the truth about crime around where they live, look at Home | SpotCrime. Put in your zipcode and it will show you everything that has been reported to the police. Make sure you click on the individual incidences to see what they really are (lots are just petty stuff, like noise or dog complaints) and the date of the incidence as it spans quite a large timeframe. You can also move the map around (and zoom) and do a re-search to maybe pinpoint more your area. This will give you actual information to base your judgement on safety. To me, it looks like a pretty safe community!

If one believes there is too much crime in TV there is always Baltimore. Baltimore mass shooting: 2 dead, 28 injured at block party

Suppression of Local Crime News
 

Maybe by simply watching TV news, even national! Or at least Orlando and Ocala newspapers. Suppression of news happens in our leftist MSM, doesn’t need to happen here in this more transparent, conservative, libertaria freer environment. to infer that crime critics should move is simply ignorant and wrong!

I think that should read," Cherry picking of news to sustain all agenda's, in all MSN.

Crime in TV
 

I have lived in the village for 35 years and for 15 of those year I never locked the door when we were only staying locally . i have lost one telephone hand piece from my car and two old saw horses just last month . This is sure high crime so if you are scared you should move to a more secure place . Fred

Yeah, the occassional algorithm ad generating topic for ToTV income.

To contribute, added bonus of T V Community Watch... daily well check calls if wanted. 3 calls and if you don't answer at the third call a well check is done. Not a bad community outreach program that many are not aware of. The gates are just fine too!

Slightly higher body count than the typical driveway party in TV.

Heh. I think I saw that on a t-shirt awhile back.

My brother has a good one on his door: "To Hell With The Dog. Beware of Owner".

You know where the “gate” is. Don’t let it hit you on the way out. Bless your heart.

Good grief, eight pages about no crime and yet people still complain.. :a20:

You're making the assumption someone actually wants your stuff:shrug:

Guns, jewelry, money, etc., are easy to exchange.

The problem there though is that a lot of Villagers are armed to the teeth. And a good number are retired military and/or LEOs.

I think it is a pretty great place. I lived in the first private gated community in the US (from 1888). I do not see how it could possibly work in TV. Too many people. If you can think of a better place than TV please let us know. I would check it out.

Staten Island was like Fordham, Arthur Avenue. If someone broke the law they would pray the cops got to them before they were found by others.

True dat
The 124th precinct which included Todt Hill was among the safest in the US, and not because of NYPD

Never been to China have you. So silly.

the replies in this thread are more worthy than the question/comment posted. it smells like bait to me

I’ve been to China and to call that person’s post merely silly is insulting to all the other silly posts on TOTV

61 can either be the year you were born, OR your age if you were born after July 3.

They can afford private security in their homes if needed.