The fact is:
No Snowbirds, No Villages

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Welcome to The friendliest hometown. :)

So all of the recent "people leaving their trash everywhere" threads were just early Snowbirds and renters, arriving in September?

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Please don’t post rational thoughts on this forum. Snarky, rude comments are much more fitting. Lol
(Sarcasm of course)

Yeah, except....some snowbirds have been snowbirding for years and years. I think they are pretty familiar with the way the roundabouts work. You may be confusing snowbirds with newbies, or visitors.

We were seasonal residents for several years before moving here full time and selling our NJ home. It wasn't the landscape out of our window that drew us here for the winter months, it was the weather. I was so glad to leave the snow and ice behind for those winters. Now I never have to deal with those miserable winters unless we visit for the holidays.

Snowbirds unite
 

We need to get the tax structure changed based on how many months your there. 12 months - full taxes, 6 months 1/2 taxes, etc. 😉

We usually dine in the afternoon (around 3:00) rather than in the evening. We call it "Lundin" which is a combination of lunch and dinner. If we don't do Lundin, then we have an early lunch which is our main meal of the day.

We sound old, don't we? Anyway......that is the way to beat the crowds in the restaurants. We dine at these times all year round, not just during the busy season here. Actually, come to think of it, we dined at these times before we moved to The Villages. We do not like having to wait for a table in a restaurant.

So you're okay with people who live here all year round and "own" here, and toss their trash out or other little things that people do when they don't care about what you think?

I have no particular interest or disinterest in snowbirds. I don't thank them or curse them. They're people who live here sometimes, whether they rent or own. As long as the property isn't overgrown with weeds on a regular basis, there's no obvious major disrepair, any "garden decorations" they have are also in good repair (not tipped over or covered with mold or cracked in half, for example), and their tree branches aren't hovering over the street (which is a hurricane risk), it's mostly just nitpicking.

I also take issue with the guy who hangs his American flag upside down, on purpose, all year round - lets it get shabby and tattered - and has HUGE political signs that he drew in black magic marker and displays to the street-side against his lanai window. Even if the signs were professionally made and said "I'm FOR this guy" I'd be - well - I disagree but whatever floats your boat.

But no - he has to be sloppy, and is not "for" someone, he's "ANTI" someone. It is degrading to the entire neighborhood. At least he took the toilet off his driveway after the election.

No complaints from me. Been there. Done that. I never let it bother me when people complained about the seasonal influx of people in The Villages. They will get over it, every April. LOL.

I grew up in a suburb where the commercial district was always lousy with traffic, and at the end of the main trio of strip-malls was our high school. Our friends lived behind the strip-mall area so we had to walk up this steep hill on the side of the parking lot to get to their apartments, or down a secondary main road to get to other friends' houses. I also lived in Boston for 7 years.

So crowds and "town traffic" doesn't bother me all that much. Highway and big state/county road traffic does bother me (like 441, 466, roads with 2-3 lanes in either direction plus turn lanes, similar to the Berlin Tpke or the Boston Post Road in Connecticut). That kind of traffic is bad all year round though, it doesn't seem any worse or better with the change of snowbird season.

Sounds like AT&T needs some more towers around here. Glad we don't use their service.

I have always done grocery shopping early in the morning, everywhere I have ever resided. It is always less crowded in the mornings. I have always avoided crowds and it has worked for me.

I am NOT for anyone throwing their trash out. I think fewer people with a "vested interest", people who own here and live here all year or seasonally, do things like that.

If someone had an offense that was reportable, like a toilet in a driveway that was in some way not there for a purpose like contract workers, I would report them. I don't like weeds either or a bunch of yard art or other things that are deed restrictions.

Like most people here, we are fine with no Political displays of any kind. Not even those that slide by the restriction. Most of us vote the same . Four out of six anyway.

I do know of several documented cases of snowbirds who have cooked at home. Most of them are delightful human beings but they add bodies to the mix. Then we become as crowded as the rest of Florida. They are legally and morally allowed to be here and being a card carrying Ohio native, I will always use my good manners with them, even if I WANT to remind them that they shouldn't throw their damned coffee cups out the side of their white rented golf cart and onto our beautiful cart paths. I will never say a thing. Nope. I'm a nice lady.

That's not being "a nice lady." That's being passive-aggressive. You see something that's not only illegal, but personally offensive, and instead of saying something, you give them permission to continue doing it (with your silence) and then come here and complain about it.

That's passive-aggression. Not "nice."