Yeah, they put up big old signs right by brand new construction saying, "Florida's Friendliest Neighborhood!" before anyone even lived there, and they have these "downtown" centers where they pipe in music for dancing. I don't know.
My main gripe is, I can understand the allure for someone who, say, is in their 70s-80s, has little family on the outside, their vision is fading so they can't drive a regular car anymore...I don't know. But like my Aunt DeeDee is like 52, she's got thick dark curly hair and bright blue eyes and a good sense of style, and she's driving the length of Florida to see people in Key West every other week. I just don't get why she'd want to be surrounded by exclusively super old people. Her husband is way older and one of those people who is x-military and wants everything in order all the time, but...blah.
Likewise my Nana was only like 53 when she moved to a less expansive and insane but otherwise similar place (they also have a stupid golf cart), and she was working at Publix and missing us terribly to where it really made her miserable, for the last pre-stroke years of her life :/ It just makes me sad, she was BLOCKS away from us and the boss, at her job, and knew all her (varied and different) neighbors. She said she regretted it but it was too late, once she got there. Now she CAN'T live independently anymore and it makes me feel bitter for her.
That is off the topic of the bizarre creepiness of the villages, I just type the way I talk, which is all over the place :p The fake plaques is so over the top I almost can't deal with it. And yeah I heard about how some of those golf "Cars" run around $35,000.
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Date: 2010-04-03 06:40 pm (UTC)My main gripe is, I can understand the allure for someone who, say, is in their 70s-80s, has little family on the outside, their vision is fading so they can't drive a regular car anymore...I don't know. But like my Aunt DeeDee is like 52, she's got thick dark curly hair and bright blue eyes and a good sense of style, and she's driving the length of Florida to see people in Key West every other week. I just don't get why she'd want to be surrounded by exclusively super old people. Her husband is way older and one of those people who is x-military and wants everything in order all the time, but...blah.
Likewise my Nana was only like 53 when she moved to a less expansive and insane but otherwise similar place (they also have a stupid golf cart), and she was working at Publix and missing us terribly to where it really made her miserable, for the last pre-stroke years of her life :/ It just makes me sad, she was BLOCKS away from us and the boss, at her job, and knew all her (varied and different) neighbors. She said she regretted it but it was too late, once she got there. Now she CAN'T live independently anymore and it makes me feel bitter for her.
That is off the topic of the bizarre creepiness of the villages, I just type the way I talk, which is all over the place :p The fake plaques is so over the top I almost can't deal with it. And yeah I heard about how some of those golf "Cars" run around $35,000.