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Lone Traveller, you have my sympathy, that is despicable. But you didn't ask us about the general behavior of the children in The Villages. You indicated you would just as soon eat them, (jokingly I'm sure), and that you didn't want any children within view. I think the residents of The Villages have given you very good feedback and that if you are not totally anti-children and give them the respect they deserve, I'm not talking about thugs here, you will be very happy you moved to The Villages. Good luck!

(Very funny, Russ!)

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My parents lived in a 55+ adults only community in St. Pete. The residents there were so anti-children it was scary. It was an "us against them" mentality. When my daughter and I visited the only greeting anyone ever said to us was, "How long is SHE staying? You know she can only be here a week!" Because of those kinds of experiences, I swore I would never live in a 55+ community. There's no way I could live in a community that banned children.
I went to stay with my mother for her final months. After she moved into the hospice I found myself going out to eat at the family restaurants, just so I could hear the sounds of children.

It was the presence of all the children that sold us on the Villages. When we visited the Villages was saw children dancing on the squares. We saw teenagers hanging around outside the movie theaters. We saw the Golden Girl cheerleaders at the Big Kazoo, the fundraiser for the Middle School. We were sold on the Villages when we saw the kids. We loved the idea that the schools were such an integral part of life in TV.

You're right, efrahain. We want what we saw when we visited, and we don't want it changed.

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Russ. the place is Deer Creek Estates mobie home park in Stockbridge, GA. Yes stay away for your own safety. I'm stuck here for at least eight more months. Smart mouth kids, drunk parents, drugies, and assorted other unsavory people. After dark I don't go near the door unless I get a phone from whoever's coming calls first.

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Lone Traveler I think you have a serious problem, the kids are the future of this country. The kids at the charter school are a great bunch of people
drd

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Just curious, Lone Traveler, if you've ever visited The Villages and experienced the environment/atmosphere for yourself....

Consider the possibility that although you live in an unsavory place, the rest of the world is not necessarily filled with "smart mouth kids, drunk parents [who are adults and are likely have much to do with the existence of the smart mouth kids], druggies, and assorted other unsavory people [whom I'm guessing may include adults too]."

I haven't been here long enough to have had the pleasure of much contact with the charter high school kids other than at TV Library, where it has never been anything but a pleasure to interact with them. As others have mentioned, I too would feel a hole in my life if I didn't have contact with kids. But that's me, and I'm not sitting in judgment of anyone else....

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Can you explain, efrahin, what this means?

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Haven't made my first trip to TV yet. I just gathering information to see if it is worth the trouble of making the trip. Aside from having to deal with the thugs in my nighborhood I've spent the last twenty years of my working career working with troubled youth that most of you wouldn't feel comfortable around. The only reason I've stayed in this job is transportation problem. People who drive have no idea how lucky they are. I just want to make sure I settle in a nice peaceful place.

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LT, It's worth it, believe me! I also work with troubled and dangerous youths ( only 17 years to your 20!), but find it very rewarding when I can find one that I can make a difference in! You will not find the bad kids in TV. Just pick up a Daily Sun sometimes and you will see all the different ways the kids at the Charter school are helping out. This is not your "inner school"! ;D

Becky

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Lone Traveller,

If you really really object to having teenagers around, you might want to look at some of the fully gated communities in the Central Florida area. Some of them have easy golf cart access to the local markets. Communities to consider include On Top of The World and Stone Creek in Ocala, as well as a slew of other communities in Leesburg. But do yourself a favor and pay us a visit. I think you will conclude that this is a very safe place to live. I looked at the communities I mentioned and while all of them are very nice, The Villages was for me the best choice by far.

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Keep things in perspective!
TV is 70,000 plus and needs thousands of professionals and skilled workers of all types. These people have kids and they want to live where their kids can thrive in school. As our realtor told us: "I could have gone anywhere to pursue my career, but I'm here, and I'll scrub toilets if I have to to keep my kids in the Villages charter schools."
It was brilliant to build the charter schools and they are a major calling card to attract and keep the service providers we can't live without. So welcome to all of those folks - you can even use our cart paths! We presently live in a pretty harmonious fashion and that's one of the best things about TV.

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Very nicely said.... :agree: :agree: :agree: :agree: :agree:

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Some of you people are being mean. I can understand Lone Traveler's point since we lived in a kid community of about 8,000 homes. It was kind of like TV in the fact that the land owners were decedents of a man who owned a huge ranch that covered much of south Orange County, CA and they were creating master-planned communities out of some of it. This was their third community and the best. It has walking paths, parks every two blocks, walk-to stores, three state-of-the-art schools including one middle school, a water park, a skate board park and a forum much like TOTV. Everything activity was for the kids. Kids played in the landscaping in front of our house (the park was about 100 feet away) and wrecked it. I yelled at them to get out and some of them did, but I was visited by some mothers who yelled at me for yelling at them. The landscaping took 1.5 years to come back after that. The middle school kids were bored and roamed the neighborhoods wrecking decorations or stealing them. A lot of them had motor scooters that were very loud and there was a constant battle on the forum between the mothers with small children who were woken up or almost run over and the scooter moms who said "Well, at least they aren't doing drugs". All pools were kid pools and there was a battle between the people who wanted to swim laps and the people who thought the kids should do whatever they wanted in the pools, including poop... another big forum issue along with street parking, or lack thereof, and problems on the round-abouts. The pools were closed on a regular basis to be disinfected. We just had to leave. TV is NOT like that. I totally agree with SteveZ's post... the charter schools for employees is a really good thing. The activities are for us, and some for the kids. But the kids don't rule everything. I think Lone Traveler would love it here.

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Well said!

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Lone T. - If you are serious then I can feel for you. If possible definitely remove yourself from that situation. I know some mobile home parks in FLA have had some of those same issues.

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Wow - I just got complimented by two Sr. Members! I'm kinda new at this and I'm not sure what that means, but it feels good!
Thanx