We just arrived for our three month stay in TV. The first three days were just shop...shop...shop...until we got ourselves established. Today was golf! Yay!

Look for our golf cart with the Maine license plate reading "DIRIGO" in red and say "Hello"!

Enjoy your time and congrats on your new home. i come in next Tuesday for a week and will be working around our place and also doing a little of goofing off.

the villages florida book
 

We just closed on our villa in Buttonwood on December 20th and will arrive on January 17th at TV. Dick will stay a week and I will stay about a month or so as Dick will retire in December of this year. We have visited TV three times and just couldn't not buy, we had such a great time and met such great people. I keep getting ads for a magazine called, "The Villages Florida Book". Is it worth subscribing to to keep up with the news? I have been visiting Talk of the Villages every day since we bought and find it an amazing site to learn and laugh. I am sure we will be using it for years to come as it is so enjoyable. Just wonder what y'all think of the magazine? We are from Chicago but I couldn't wait to use the "y'all". (lol)

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Florida is a y'all state, unless maybe you're in the panhandle or North Florida somewhere. Texas (when I lived there) was a you-all state, parts of Tennessee were y'all states, and definitely Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, South Carolina and most of North Carolina. But Florida? Maybe in the rural areas around here. Too many relocated yankees and midwesterners - don't think the south's population really boomed until a/c became available to the masses, probably in the 60s.

But, hey, if you like saying "y'all," go right ahead. It does sound more relaxed.

I am soooooooooooooooo happy for you.

I'm still a wannbe but I will buy a turn-key home. I will probably spend the morning setting up appointments for services needed and leave the afternoons to going to happy hour to celebrate my good fortune and have a good time. Meeting people and going to Crispers to meet all the wonderful people whio dispense such useful information on TOTV and start long lasting friendships.

The rest of the time, I will be repeating to myself,. I can't believe I finally made it. I can't believe I made it. I can't believe I made it.

Hi y'all,

:welcome:

Love,
One of the few Southerners in TV :)

p.s., Hi Pat, Hi Mint Julip. (Where have y'all been?)

P - Isn't it supposed to be "Where have all y'all been?" :)

Bill

That's right,it is all y'all .... ;) .....but only in Florida do you have to go north to be in the south....:wave:

Headin' Down The Turnpike!
 

My husband and I decided to retire in the summer of 1998. We came to The Villages, after looking at all of the other retirement communities between Leesburg and Ocala, and chose our lot mid June. Two months later we were driving a Penske truck, hauling a flatbed with our car on it, heading out of Maine, south on the Maine Turnpike! To this day I am still not sure how the move happened so quickly! The Town Square at Spanish Springs wasn't completed but we thought we had died and gone to Heaven! After all, there was more there than we had seen in any other retirement community and we had looked at many. We have lived in the same villa for the entire 12+ years. To say we have been contented would be an understatement. It has been a thrill and a pleasure to watch what the developer has done here. I read all the time about folks who have just arrived here and "pinch" themselves to make sure they aren't dreaming. Guess what? I still pinch myself sometimes, for even after so many years of living here, this lifestyle seems unimaginable, incomprehensible and truly magical. I simply cannot imagine a better place to spend these years, when we get to be kids all over again! "Tag", you're it!

Also an Hawkeye fan originally from Iowa living in Indiana!!! Going to TV the end of this month. Hope I find it as great as you all talk about.

Just make sure you bring your checkbook.......you're gonna need it!! :)

Bill

All y'all!? That's imitation southern, Hollywood Southern or whatever you want to call it. But it ain't from around these parts!

Now, would you Damn Yankees quit tellin' me how to speak Southern.:ohdear:

:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

Yes, ma'am. :wave:

Bill (or I guess it would be "Beel" to some.... :a20: )

Your well stated comments have represented The Villages well! So, all I can add is "ditto".

JudyO,

Congratulatons on your purchase. You and your husband will miss the snow and cold of Chicago a lot right :). What will you do with your snow shovel and the ice scraper for your car? I'm on the opposite end of Chicagoland (N.W. suburbs) and as I was brushing the snow off my car while leaving work today I was wishing to be in TV but I will be a wannabee for quite a while. I'm hoping to visit TV for a couple of weeks this year.