[toeser]

Originally Posted by CWGUY

Come on folks. This does not need to be a 75 reply post. Think with your head not your heart.

Next week I will be near my old Townhouse up on the Finger Lakes. I can't go there and use the Rec. Center. I see nothing wrong with that. I would love to see the posts when a resident is turned away from a Rec. Center here and told.....Sorry, it's all filled up with people who used to live here.

Rules are rules.... people need to follow them and stop trying to get around them.

I am willing to bet there is a better solution to this than going online to complain. This will accomplish NOTHING.

Totally correct. I have had property in six different locations under a home owners association. NONE of them allow non-property-owners back in to use the facilities, even if you had previously lived there for 30 years.

[OhioBuckeye]

Originally Posted by MarcelDuhamp

If you have lived for over 20 years in the Villages are using a walker or wheel chair been in the hospital 4 times and had 3 operations 2 broken hips and moved into assisted living in the Villages and show up at a recreation center to visit with your long time friends or possibly try to go to club that you have been going to for 15 years in a wheelchair or walker. If you can get wheelchair transport. Well what happens is you are barred from entry to the Recreation center. A person like this can not play golf, swim, play pickle ball, Bocce or just about any thing else. They would consume just about zero of the Villages recreation resources. They would occupy a chair in a room. That is DISGUSTING. How much money does the Villages have to make. You should remember that ever one who lives here is headed for the same situation. In most case this situation will not go on for long because many of these people will not live very long.
So if letting old people in wheelchairs and walkers be in a room in a recreation center with there friends is going to bankrupt the Villages then this is a very different Villages then I know. These people built the Villages and they are the ones who paid for this place.
So when you live in the villages and there is no more money to made from you and they are done with you, you are Expendable. I think that this situation surely earns the Villages the designation as (AS THE FREINDLIST HOME TOWN IN AMERICAN) as long as you are not very old and sick.

I agree! I've had families that live in communities that pay amenities for up keep & recreation & as soon as the community starts getting older the amenities start going up fast, recreation starts getting older quicker & the next thing is they start paying for things they never had to pay for. Just like the other news that's in this article about renting a home. All the Villages is doing TO ME is just slowly making me want to move out of the Villages. Things in The Villages aren't cheap, repairs, eating out in The Villages, buying merchandise. I really thought living here was catering to the residents, it's really not!

[Bonny]

Originally Posted by OhioBuckeye

I agree! I've had families that live in communities that pay amenities for up keep & recreation & as soon as the community starts getting older the amenities start going up fast, recreation starts getting older quicker & the next thing is they start paying for things they never had to pay for. Just like the other news that's in this article about renting a home. All the Villages is doing TO ME is just slowly making me want to move out of the Villages. Things in The Villages aren't cheap, repairs, eating out in The Villages, buying merchandise. I really thought living here was catering to the residents, it's really not!

I think it does cater very well to Villagers. I can't imagine where anyone is going to live much cheaper than here. I think we have decent restaurants that are well priced, good happy hours, stores that have a lot of sales, almost everything we could possibly want right here. We don't have to travel far. We can go to almost anything we need without even having to go on a main road. There are so many activities for those who want to stay active.
I thank the Morse family every day for the life style we live here. They have done a wonderful job.

[ColdNoMore]

I keep reading about how... "the rules are the rules" (or words to that effect).

It's almost as if some folks think they were handed down on Mt. Sinai, or at the very least....promulgated by the Founding Fathers and/or are in the Constitution.

Newsflash, "the rules" can easily be changed (and have been when it suits the rule makers) to allow those former TV homeowners, who still live on TV property and are in TV supplied/approved assisted living residences....to allow reasonable access to the amenities.

IMHO, anyone who is so adamantly opposed to something that would affect the rest of us even less than minimally...are being pretty darned selfish and petty.

Particularly given that a significant % of us will probably be in the same situation...sooner rather than later.

[VApeople]

"I'm old! Gimmie, gimmie, gimmie" Abe Simpson

I'm old gimme gimme gimme - YouTube

[Peddler3500]

That surely does not match the oft-used descriptor of "the friendliest hometown". They need to add some qualifiers such as: money-grubbing; rudest (think of seat saving fiascos at the squares); meanest (think grandfathered bird cage situation, gazing ball in the yard). For me, the jury is still out as to whether this is the place I want to live. There are some nice easy-going people here but a big share of jerks too. The situation with the villages health care is another example of money grubbing attitude. The developer runs this like a fiefdom. Wish I had rented longer before I bought here.

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by Peddler3500

That surely does not match the oft-used descriptor of "the friendliest hometown". They need to add some qualifiers such as: money-grubbing; rudest (think of seat saving fiascos at the squares); meanest (think grandfathered bird cage situation, gazing ball in the yard). For me, the jury is still out as to whether this is the place I want to live. There are some nice easy-going people here but a big share of jerks too. The situation with the villages health care is another example of money grubbing attitude. The developer runs this like a fiefdom. Wish I had rented longer before I bought here.

In all honesty, TV is simply a microcosm (albeit with a lot higher % of a certain demographic/political bent) than the real world...except for a lot nicer overall landscaping.

Some people feel more comfortable letting others decide for them how to run/live their lives...and some folks prefer to think on their own.

While I am much more the latter than the former, I still think overall that TV is better than 99% of the other places I could choose to live.

There is no such thing as Shangri-La, but as a golf nut and one who enjoys a plethora of other activities to choose from...to me, TV comes the closest in a retirement community.

[Gpsma]

Originally Posted by Peddler3500

That surely does not match the oft-used descriptor of "the friendliest hometown". They need to add some qualifiers such as: money-grubbing; rudest (think of seat saving fiascos at the squares); meanest (think grandfathered bird cage situation, gazing ball in the yard). For me, the jury is still out as to whether this is the place I want to live. There are some nice easy-going people here but a big share of jerks too. The situation with the villages health care is another example of money grubbing attitude. The developer runs this like a fiefdom. Wish I had rented longer before I bought here.

Finally an honest opinion. One not inspired by blind belief that TV is some sort of paradise. I suppose those that think it is are from areas that weren't so good to begin with.

[Bonny]

It always amazes me when people live here and complain about everything. I couldn't imagine living in a place I didn't like. This is a great big world. I would find somewhere else that I liked and move there. Just sayin'.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by Gpsma

Finally an honest opinion. One not inspired by blind belief that TV is some sort of paradise. I suppose those that think it is are from areas that weren't so good to begin with.

I believe that The Villages is some kind of Paradise. I am from Ohio and it was a wonderful place growing up and raising our kids. I would think that most of us have warm feelings about where we are from and probably think that our area is superior by far to most others.

Where are you from GPSMA? Why don't you buy into this "blind belief" that The Villages is a wonderful place?

[RickeyD]

Originally Posted by Peddler3500

That surely does not match the oft-used descriptor of "the friendliest hometown". They need to add some qualifiers such as: money-grubbing; rudest (think of seat saving fiascos at the squares); meanest (think grandfathered bird cage situation, gazing ball in the yard). For me, the jury is still out as to whether this is the place I want to live. There are some nice easy-going people here but a big share of jerks too. The situation with the villages health care is another example of money grubbing attitude. The developer runs this like a fiefdom. Wish I had rented longer before I bought here.

No problem, your house is very marketable. Plenty of people wish to live as serfs here.

[RickeyD]

Originally Posted by Gpsma

Finally an honest opinion. One not inspired by blind belief that TV is some sort of paradise. I suppose those that think it is are from areas that weren't so good to begin with.

The smell of fresh drywall & cement triggers the paradise pheromone. We're all susceptible to it.

[Bonny]

Originally Posted by Gpsma

Finally an honest opinion. One not inspired by blind belief that TV is some sort of paradise. I suppose those that think it is are from areas that weren't so good to begin with.

I'm from Michigan. It's a beautiful state. We lived in a nice area with lots of good friends, good restaurants, great schools and stores galore. We loved it. Just got too cold. Now I love it here. We've been here over 16 years.

[RickeyD]

Originally Posted by Gpsma

Finally an honest opinion. One not inspired by blind belief that TV is some sort of paradise. I suppose those that think it is are from areas that weren't so good to begin with.

I live on the North Fork of Long Island ( look it up ) many feel this is paradise, just sought a different paradise with palm trees this time around.

North Fork Promotion Council Inc.

[Nucky]

Originally Posted by RickeyD

The smell of fresh drywall & cement triggers the paradise pheromone. We're all susceptible to it.

A Concrete Mixer makes me feel frisky! LOL.