[chelsea24]

Hey, you know what they say "Love it or Leave it!"

[downeaster]

I am not sure how the POA got in here but seeing as it did I will add my two cents worth.
We need the POA. Someone must hold others accountable. It doesn't take a PhD in world history to figure that out.

DC

[another Linda]

Originally Posted by l2ridehd

This author is so in love with himself that he is incapable of seeing the forest for the trees. He uses as many big words as possible to make the article as esoteric as possible. I bet he sleeps with Webster under his pillow every night.

Not self-love but typical academia (IMHO). If you want tenure you gotta publish, and if you're gonna get published then you gotta conform to the "style" of your field. And the style in most fields requires at least 5 paragraphs out of every 7 require at minimum 2 re-readings. the only other option is to opt out and after working for a PhD, not too many do that.

[Russ_Boston]

I'm not saying that TV doesn't need the POA or the VHA.

I'm just saying to discuss it and stop the preaching.

There will be issues and we'll have to deal with them but no more POA vs. VHA please.

[SteveFromNY]

Originally Posted by downeaster

I am not sure how the POA got in here but seeing as it did I will add my two cents worth.
We need the POA. Someone must hold others accountable. It doesn't take a PhD in world history to figure that out.

DC

I know how it got in here. In oh-so-typical TOTV fashion, the thread was high-jacked.
It's really hard to find a single thread that stays on topic. Not many have any sense of "net-iquette" I think it's called. Wanna talk about the POA, start a new Topic!

[Muncle]

Originally Posted by ladykathleen

Hi Skip and thank you.

Our country is in the condition it is because of jest on serious issues and enormous lack of interest. Better heads will prevail. It is reassuring to know that those who count don't sit around mocking what they have no comprehension of.

I certainly do not mean the following as a personal attack and apologize in advance to anyone who takes it as such. However, does anyone else feel that the fair Lady Kate thinks herself just a wee bit superior to we mere mortals?

[Russ_Boston]

Muncle, surely you jest?

BTW - whose participle is dangling :joke:

[TallerTrees]

Ok, I just read the entire piece. There isn't anything there that is incorrect. I found it interesting actually. I don't see where this man is either "in love with himself" or using "big words" to impress. This is what the man does for a living and from all accounts is quite successful.

So.... while the piece was long and tedious at times, what's the big deal? Some of the posts here I felt were more defensive and for what reason I guess I don't understand.

Relax, you live here, you love it. Smile. Move on.

Thanks Tal for the original post.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by TallerTrees

Ok, I just read the entire piece. There isn't anything there that is incorrect. I found it interesting actually. I don't see where this man is either "in love with himself" or using "big words" to impress. This is what the man does for a living and from all accounts is quite successful.

So.... while the piece was long and tedious at times, what's the big deal? Some of the posts here I felt were more defensive and for what reason I guess I don't understand.

Relax, you live here, you love it. Smile. Move on.

Thanks Tal for the original post

I think the defense was triggered, not by the article, but by the repeated negativity from some posters. It gets so difficult to relax and enjoy when we hear we are needing to fight, fight, fight, the developer. My shingles are on my house and look like they will stay awhile and my local pool is filled with clean water. I am not a fighter. I am a villager.

[KCinBAMA]

The bit about paying $50million for an $8million golf course caught my attention. Can someone tell me where I can find out more information on this?

Thanks

Originally Posted by KCinBAMA

The bit about paying $50million for an $8million golf course caught my attention. Can someone tell me where I can find out more information on this?

Thanks

It looks like the Professor got this information from articles by Christopher Curry of the Ocala Star-Banner.

[livsea2]

Look at the top of the Forum's main page. Click "links" then links for the villages then "who owns the villages rec centers and executive golf courses". It seems the developer has circumvented the law that set up CDDs by establishing one that no one lives in so it gives him complete power over it now and forever. Paying what ever price he deems appropriate for facilities he sells to it. Only problem is the villages pay for it with no say. I don't think that was what the lawmakers had in mind when they passed the CDD development laws. But I could be wrong.

Originally Posted by KCinBAMA

The bit about paying $50million for an $8million golf course caught my attention. Can someone tell me where I can find out more information on this?

Thanks

[SteveZ]

Originally Posted by chelsea24

SteveZ, I take great exception to your slant on Chicago. I'm from Chicago and it's one of the most beautiful cities in the country. To reduce it to your description is a shame on you.

I do agree with the beauty of central Florida. Before checking it out and moving here, you really don't hear much about it in the rest of the country. I think it's spectacular. The rolling green hills and sunsets are breathtaking.

I'm lucky to have had the best of both worlds. The best in the country. :#1:

Exception noted! Chicago IS a neat city and a fun place when the wind isn't whipping off the Lake in mid-winter. I'm probably too defensive about CentFL, as this is the "end of the rainbow" to me.

[ladykathleen]

Oh that is just the beginning, an 8 million dollar property being sold for 50 million. Reread the article that is being so talked about the one about how the government of the villages really works. Many of the properties that Villagers north of 466 have been forced to buy without a vote were bought at huge inflated prices. There is so much infor. on this I will have to go back and research however the POA has all the information on what has been going on. People south of 466 will be charged huge prices for their districts buying buildings rec. centers etc.

[graciegirl]

huuuuu boy!