[senior citizen]

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[senior citizen]

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[tony]

senior citizen,

The members of Talk of The Village read your long, searching posts and offered you the best answers they could. They tolerated your left-handed jabs at their style of living in your posts, yet answered you sincerely.

You then returned and removed the text of your posts, waving your arse in their faces, making their sincere answers difficult if not impossible to understand.

You will notice that none of these members are removing their answers in response to your disingenuous "thank you" posts.

There are a lot of special, caring people who welcome newcomers and answer their questions and show that newcomers are welcome among them. Your actions show that, really, you made the right choice, you don't belong among them.

[senior citizen]

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[katezbox]

Hi Senior,

I am "the lady from Connecticut" you mention earlier. I wish you the best of luck in Maine - the summers are more beautiful than anywhere I have ever been. Would you share what town you have selected. I think I mentioned in a previous post that my husband's family is from the Mid-coast area and many made their livings as sea captains.

TV is not for everyone - there are 75,000 people in TV plus a lot of wannabes, but that still lives quite a few million living in other places they, too, consider wonderful.

I do not believe that Tony or Talk Host were deleting posts because they reflected negatively on TV - I think they deleted them when one person was rude/critical or made fun of another. As a blunt woman from up north, I really hate censorship and would like more transparency, but would not like to be ridiculed.

Kate

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[ConeyIsBabe]

I read your original long post this morning before I went to the fitness center and don't recall anything that would cause a person to misunderstand its content. As I recall, you were describing your impression of TV as it relates to your lifestyle - and isn't that exactly what this thread is all about?

I'm only a wannabee, haven't yet visited TV, but hope to do so in the near or far future (hopefully NEAR). I appreciate reading everyone's comments whether they appear to be negative, positive, or cheers from the cheerleaders because every opinion has merit and should be judged by its sincerity not because it might be a different opinion.

Who knows...... maybe someday we will be neighbors in TV - I'd like that!

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[katezbox]

Oh senior,

I'm sorry - I obviously wasn't clear. When I mentioned Tony deleting posts, I was referring to your comment regarding his having deleted posts that were negative about TV. "In deleting my own posts, I noticed some critical information which I had been trying to research.........and the "mom" who kept writing about the problem in TV was now BANNED. So much for free speech." Maybe I am naive, but I think he only deleted posts that he felt would be hurtful to others.

I really think TV is only made better by those who really want to be there. If it isn't the place for you, then you have made the best decision for yourself and it is your life. I am happy that you and your husband have found the right place in Maine. As I have said before, it is an incredibly beautiful place.

Peace - I wish you both well!

Kate

[Bogie Shooter]

Will this ever end?

[Russ_Boston]

Senior - I meant the negatives outweighed the positive in your balance sheet.

There are negatives and positives for any place - no one says TV is perfect.

[Whalen]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

Will this ever end?

I think I wrote this one off last week, why are people still entertaining her/him?

[Alex]

Originally Posted by katezbox

Oh senior,

I'm sorry - I obviously wasn't clear. When I mentioned Tony deleting posts, I was referring to your comment regarding his having deleted posts that were negative about TV. "In deleting my own posts, I noticed some critical information which I had been trying to research.........and the "mom" who kept writing about the problem in TV was now BANNED. So much for free speech." Maybe I am naive, but I think he only deleted posts that he felt would be hurtful to others.

I really think TV is only made better by those who really want to be there. If it isn't the place for you, then you have made the best decision for yourself and it is your life. I am happy that you and your husband have found the right place in Maine. As I have said before, it is an incredibly beautiful place.

Peace - I wish you both well!

Kate

Mom still has many friends still on this board. Please don't make any assumptions.
You can meet her anytime you want as she is always up on stage at exercise classes. As a matter of fact you can also meet her in the Horsen'Around club, Polo Club, Rainy Villa club, Teaching English as a Second Language, Helping the homeless etc. She loves the Villages and has tons of friends here. Read all the well wishes on helping hands as she had surgery in July. She was banned but so were many others.
Again...please don't make any assumptions!!!

[ChattanoogaTn]

Came to The Villages 2 years ago for LifeStyle program and now we are ready to buy and coming back for month of May to try and find a 2 Car Villa near The Squares. Anyway the last time we came down I noticed my GPS navigation did not work "in" The Villages. Was told that they had problem with The Villages not allowing address to be installed for GPS and although I found that hard to believ I was wondering if anyone uses a GPS to get around in The Villages as we could use a map to try and locate property for sale a GPS is so much easier.

Also after being taken around the 1st day the Sales Rep kept pushing "NEW" houses and kept telling us that the BOND was not a factor in "the Sales price" to which I never understood how she could tell us that as well as "neglected" to tell us that "The Villages" sales Rep are not allowed to sell .. or show houses that are listed thru Realtors or BuyOwner! Would really like to "change" my Sales Rep as once your in their "system" you keep the same Sales Pre and hate to offend but feel like they could care less about what "I'm" looking for.

Looking forward to buying in The Villages for the main reason that we can have things to keep us occupied and was amazed at how nice the people in The Villages seem to be. Anyway just curious as to if anyone uses a GPS to get around and if anyone might know of a "deal?" near Spanish Springs that has a 2 car garage around $150K - $160K.

Thanks and wishing you a great day...

[katezbox]

Originally Posted by Alex

Mom still has many friends still on this board. Please don't make any assumptions.
You can meet her anytime you want as she is always up on stage at exercise classes. As a matter of fact you can also meet her in the Horsen'Around club, Polo Club, Rainy Villa club, Teaching English as a Second Language, Helping the homeless etc. She loves the Villages and has tons of friends here. Read all the well wishes on helping hands as she had surgery in July. She was banned but so were many others.
Again...please don't make any assumptions!!!

Hi Alex,

I sent you a PM on this and I am quite confused. I never meant to in any way criticize her. Maybe I have made (dangerous) assumptions. But it is my understanding that the censorship on this site has been primarily due to hostile/unfriendly comments by posters.

I may not always agree with their posts (as TH will tell you), but I don't think they are deleting posts that are critical of The Villages. I know people who are no longer on this site that are good people. I don't know if the admins were "right" or "wrong" in banning them. It is not my intent to judge. As Boomer pointed out on another thread, it is not always easy to control your tone as you type as opposed to as you speak.

My point, if I was unclear, was to tell Senior that the admins did not censor posts that were anti_TV. From my understanding of the Sticky Enough! thread, they censored posts they felt were meanspirited.