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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