[tbsoccer]

You may be really confused but you and the rest of the TOTVers have a fabulous job in clarifying so many issues for those of us trying to learn the nitty-gritty about the real TV lifestyle. You have opened our eyes and shown us that there are some things we need to aware of and put the Developer's message in perspective. Issues such as the hospital waits, long lines in the restaurants during the winter when the snow birds descend on TV, the growing list of things to do when you move to the TV, the rash of home burglaries last year, the New Years parties on the town squares and so many other important events that are not reported in the Daily Sun have been brought to light through your efforts. Information is power and you have empower all of us looking to buy in The Villages.

According your log, I have spent about 21 hours reading TOTV over the last 9 months (since our last visit to TV) and there is nothing that has changed my mind about wanting to take in this new lifestyle but I'm a lot smarter now than after our first visit, thanks to you.

[Sidney Lanier]

I don't understand your confusion either. ONE person says there are too many forums, and ONE other person says there aren't enough. So what? You're dealing with a membership of some 5,000, and even though all don't participate in the forums, when you deal with ANY kind of public, you're going to have different opinions. In a situation like this, you have to adopt a 'live and let live' attitude, and unless something is in incredibly poor taste or offensive in some way, you really need to leave the membership to its differing views and opinions expressed in postings. This site is an endless source of useful information, and anyone who doesn't like or agree with the postings of anyone else doesn't need to embrace them or even read them.

IMHO, what we as members of the forums need to do is encourage other Villagers who are not members and possibly not even aware that TOTV exists to view the site and consider membership themselves. I once posted in an earlier thread that if each of us actually living in TV encourages even one neighbor or friend to do this, this would help make TOTV a more representative organization in our community of 67,000!