I love it here but I must admit I am a little concerned about the expansion of TV and the limited resources. I think it will be snow bird season year round once the so called build out is done.

I hate it here !! The golf courses are awful ! They have yet to let me get a hole in one !! LOL :p
Actually, we've been here over 15 years and we "LOVE" it here. I could never imagine living anywhere else! :D

The woodshop is great and I used to be a shop teacher. I do wonder what it would be like to have a metal shop too. I've given up on making furniture. It's truly a labor of love meant for people who love the working with wood. It's rare that a piece looks as good as store bought.

But the fixes I need to make or the projects I dream up seem to be more metal working then wood. Just a minor thought not to be taken seriously. some people would put legs on a snake,

Boy, it's all relative. We moved here after 19 yrs in a 1100 sq ft condo. I had to rent a 12x24 garage bay for my workshop. Now it is right out through the kitchen door.

The fact of the matter is that there is no other place like this in the rest of the world!! We have everything.....2,500 clubs.....all filled up with happy folks doing EXACTLY what they want to do. Our new performing arts center is spectacular! What sport do you want to try? What music do you want to listen to or participate in? What service do you want to participate in? ETC IT'S ALL HERE!! The greatest majority of people in the Villages areextremely happy. Most of us wish that we had moved here sooner.

I just don't think the neighbors would like to hear me pounding steel into shape and I am pretty sure State Farm would get a little grumpy about the welder and cutting torch.

Wow. I also moved here after 19 years in an 1100 sq ft. condo (with no garage). I also had neighbors I didn't know... no activities... and a trip through bad neighborhoods if I had to go somewhere.
Now I have a bigger house with a garage... great neighbors... lots to do.
I couldn't be happier.

I'm not gonna do it, but my guess is that if you searched the post history of everyone here who has shared their happiness, there would be a few complaints scattered around. A hearty bitchfest once in a while doesn't necessarily mean people are unhappy, either with TV or their lives in general.

But people do leave -- 2 on my street moved out of TV to nearby cities last year because they were dissatisfied for one reason or another.

outlaw: you will never get a satisfactory answer. I happened to agree with your assessment. You should bear in mind that marketing is what The Villages Lake-Sumter, Inc. (TVLSI) (Developer) are best at. In fact that packaged it and offered it out to other communities (Developers) for a hefty price.

That's why you find references to The Villages being an adult Disneyworld or Florida's Friendliest Hometown"or Florida's Healthiest Town or build you dream home all marketing I believe this type of marketing hype actually hurts more than it helps in the long run because it sets unrealistic expectations.

I built my dream home in the Minneapolis area. I left Minneapolis area which I loved for two main reasons snow and taxes. But, thankfully I didn't leave family behind. I know many people who moved here that miss their families and go back often because of that fact either as snow birds or even full time residents.

The sheen wears off this place quickly and I for one accept it as to what it is to me and that was an investment which my kids can use or sell as this so wish because after 9 years I still could not recoup my investment and make a reasonable profit and I live on a champion golf course. To be sure it is a safe place and a clean place and most people I find are friendly and my kids enjoy their visits.

I'm one of the very few that didn't move here to fulfill a dream. For me, it was a safe place to land. Even so, I don't regret my choice. I probably will always think of the SF area as home but I do love this bubble. It's not perfect here but it's pretty darn good. I usually find something to make me smile every day. I grouse about some things and I'm not a huge fan of the developer (but I do appreciate the work and effort it took to make Harold Schwartz's dream a reality). Not everyone is going to like it here and most of us take issue to something (dogs, bikes, golf cart drivers, etc.) but that doesn't mean we're not happy here or regret our choice, it simply means there are things we'd like changed. For that matter, I'd like to be 35, a leggy redhead, successful and have a nice body but I'll take me as I am and like some of the stuff about me and accept the rest as it is. The same goes for TV.

Take a look at the Tags.

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I don't know what to make of this. Where is "happy, unlimited, non-competitive, local, content, restful, accepting"? Where are the positive tags? I
'm going to assume that a computer program makes a tag list. But why aren't positive terms being tags too? Clearly this thread has far more positive, over 99% positive comments.

I vote we switch over and talk about why the 98.6573854% like it here.

I agree.

As Thoreau says in the Conclusion to Walden, "The fault finder will find faults even in paradise".

So true!!!..:BigApplause: