Personally, we have no problem with the growth in TV, it does not affect or effect us at all! We live in own little space, shop where we want to shop and enjoy our retirement life. My hope is that the new arrivals coming into the new villages will enjoy themselves as much as we have. If you chose to live in a retirement community, this one takes a lot of beating. :smiley:

So, right now we have 12 championship courses handling 60,000 homes and another 49,000+ homes are going to be built with only one 18 hole championship course planned (by the turnpike service plaza); I really hope the Developers decide to build a few more championship complexes down there.

The courses around the 466a corridor could really get busy once the bridges down south get built.

They have yet to announce what all is going to be included in the additional acreage or even the original acreage as far as amenities. If the demand is there it will be built, the developers are not stupid, people are not going to be sitting in their home twiddling their thumbs down here, give them some time, you are looking at years before the first person lives in the newly announced areas.

There are 5 Championship courses North of 466, 4 between 466 and 466A, and 3 South of 466A.


The trend is not good for golfers, especially if you live in "the center" of TV

Diminishing golf
 

“Times have changed” when it comes to golf and golf courses. The number of golfers across the country is less today than yesterday. Golf courses are closing and fewer new courses are being built in the United States. In short, adjustments will be made as the next generation reaches retirement age. Fewer golf courses will likely be built in the new Villages to the south. But wait, perhaps a bike trail to Disney World will be built INSTEAD.

Defined benefit pensions are dead, social security will be adjusted further up in age to collect fully, smaller less expensive houses will be built which is going on now at Fenny and DeSoto. Retirees won’t have enough disposable income to play a championship course. Yes, the times are a changing.


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I remember quite clearly that I was told there were about 60,000 homes and we were approaching 100,000 residents.

I recall announcements made a few years back that we had gone over 100,000.

Defined pensions are not yet dead but they will be, adjusting SS age is speculation, smaller less expensive homes began when they started building ranch homes north of Fenney, why on earth would you state that retirees won't have enough disposable income to play a championship course? The times will change but not until the 10,000 daily boomers retiring ends.

Vintage. I have watched now ever since Fenney began the posts about it and many were and still are negative. It seemed evident to me that the developer had a plan to market this disengaged area that was new to be desirable and attractive to people, and he did offer lovely homes at a reasonable price and some wonderful completed homes with a lot of super features. Fenny has a great ambiance and it is very successfully filling up and I think how the pioneers benefitted from the reasonable prices and nicely outfitted homes.


Vintageoguage, I don't know why anonymous posters would heap critical remarks on a place that many have not visited. I know how annoyed and hurt I felt when we built our second home and people on this forum scoffed at building so near to 466 with all the dirt and noise.

It has turned out to be a lovely and convenient place to live with delightful neighbors and the homes that have gone up for sale here in the seven years have sold quickly and at a good profit.


I wish you continued happiness in your home in Fenney.

Doesn’t matter to me one way or another. The very first sign that my home equity levels due to overbuilding we’re outta here. I’ll watch from afar on the coast as this place turns into a retirement ghetto.


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Hopefully by the time that takes place most of us will have passed away.

Which is why it’ll turn into a boarded up ghetto.


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Hope not.

You mean like Urban Blight, the old sections of the cities turned into ghettos? Good reason to move south if that is going to be the case (not that I think it will happen), down here will be the newest areas and not subject to your speculative conclusions.

Again, don’t care. The Florida coast will always be in demand. Money flows to coastal areas not the geographical center of a state or country. That is a fact.


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