To the Editor:
I have been a frog for 21 years. Everyone says we need snowbirds to pay for all the businesses and help The Villages to grow. It is so overgrown now it’s getting unbearable. I’m more likely to get a finger than a wave. Streets are packed with speeders and poor driving manners. Five miles over the speed limit is asking to be rear ended by those who think they are privileged to go as fast as they want. Restaurants are packed every night, parking is a joke and many feel so privileged to park wherever there is “a space.” I don’t go to the squares because it’s a zoo of people having fun at others expense of yearly residents. Yes, I have friends and neighbors who are friends on an individual basis. But everything turns into a mob atmosphere as a total group of snowbirds feel privileged to do as they please. If there are more people, there needs to be more restaurants, more golf courses, more cars, more roads, and certainly more police. It’s not much fun living here any more. It feels more like L.A., Chicago, or New York City than The Villages. Yes, it’s an adult Disney Land if you don’t mind standing in lines or looking for shady places. When is enough, enough? It seems to be North Villages, Middle Villages, South Villages and Even More South Villages. Just my thoughts and opinion.
Philip Lane
Village of Belvdeere