Fully agree with your sentiments, Bob, and I think I may have seen or driven
through The Villages when living in Tampa. Maybe not, as you say, all such
developments look the same. However, the bit about STDs is a surprise and
perhaps an indication that life there is not as boring as we youngsters imagine
;-)
Cheers,
Nathan
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On Apr 16, 2011, at 5:29 PM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> I'm going to get in trouble here, but it's not my fault. <g> Some few years
> ago, Joan and I visited an old nursing friend of hers who currently lives
> near The Villages, a little ways north and east of the Tampa area. It's a
> senior living facility that spreads over something like three counties. Very
> planned. Very well laid out. And big enough, I think, to be seen from space.
> <g> Certain retail and commercial amenities every so many blocks.
>
> It scared me within an inch of my life. First, everyone was white, and
> everyone was old, even the waitresses in the pancake house where we had
> breakfast. (Minimum age, 55.) Second, I couldn't find my way around in the
> place because everything looks the same. Third, the preferred mode of
> transport is the golf cart. I hate golf carts. And fourth, a fact I learned
> long after my visit, the, ah, "facility" has the highest incidence of
> sexually transmitted disease in the United States. And here you (the generic
> you) thought it was all those promiscuous teenagers in need of guidance and
> goals. All the while it was and is frisky seniors who apparently do care who
> gives what to whom.
>
> That said, a much smaller operation, such as Chuck has found, might be more
> to my liking, but damned if I wouldn't like some ethnic diversity. Living in
> Occupied Canada is bad enough, though things have improved in an influx of
> Sudanese and Somalians. Before that, our diversity consisted of the
> occasional southerner and people of French Canadian descent.
>
> --Bob
>
>
> On Apr 16, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> I very much like living in that "segregated" Florida community amongst
>> people of my own age and
>> interests.
>
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