The locals were not complaining when they sold their land to TV. I have no regrets moving to TV or telling people when we travel that we live in TV. If they make comments, I just respond that most of what is said about us is "BS".

I do say TV but I so often hear about STD BS. Oh well, all I can say is that it's active retirement heaven to me and that I don't have STD issues!
I do know people charge us more for being from TV. Just compare prices outside the bubble, it's a fact in my book.

As an aside, Sumter County is Florida's fastest growing county.
here is a list of population growth in all counties
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fl...l_article_link

I am not ashamed to tell people I live in The Villages.
Why are some of posting that you are?

Arkansas

Not ashamed. Just don’t like people to assume that I’m flush with money because I live in TV.

When people ask about swinger parties I tell them that we have them after sundown
Most of us Senior citizens don’t look great naked

Recently returned from Palo Alto, CA visiting my daughter and her family. She is an RN working for Kaiser Permanente. When asked where her parents are from, her reply The Villages, FL spauns a consist response, "Oh, they must be swingers. Hear STD is quite the thing there, ha, ha." Man, that STD gig just will not go away. Even as far away as CA! Wait, it is just a thing of the past, right?

I agree 100%. TV is reflective of society in general. Yes, there are swingers here, but not to the extent the rumors suggest. To think there aren't any here is putting your head in the sand.

But to us it's all good here in TV, live and let live.

When we're back in Indiana, everytime we tell someone we live here the next question is about std's and swingers. I just laugh and tell them I'm insulted because I haven't been invited yet. lol

My wife and I have lived and owned property in TV since 2006 - 18 plus years. Never approached by any couple and never known any couple that has been approached by a so called swinger couple. Maybe we should be disappointed! LOL. People do love a good story.

I’ve met a number of people who moved here for the swingers but were badly disappointed. I know a couple dozen, but compared to 130,000 people who live here in the winter, that isn’t many—probably fewer than any other group of people that size in the country. A lot of the swingers I know are actually visitors from small-town and agricultural middle America regions.

Two different bartenders that I've talked to in TV told me that there are a lot of swingers here, they just don't go around advertising it. I don't really care what people choose to do in their private lives.

I never have really seen it debunked other than the whole luffa thing that was originally made up by people on social media that don't live here.

Hasn't it been about 20 years since that fake "Dr" was run out of town, since the state published the ACTUAL counties, towns, and cities in FL with highest rates of STD's (sorry Villages, you didn't make the list), since the infamous Katie Bell's closed and the notorious "Mr. Midnight" spilled the beans to the author who wrote that book the developer's family hoped would never be published...but it was ! And to think people still remember when all that made national TV, and even international TV.

"The Villages: a cross between Stepford and The Dome."
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