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Old 10-23-2015, 08:21 AM
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Originally Posted by tomwed View Post
What is the definition of a bubble?
When I first started teaching I visited a friend at Penn State. The campus was huge with people my own age all over the place. There were places to eat and shop. Doesn't that describe a bubble too? I thought that's what a bubble was.


Or is a bubble more like a mythical place where people believe once inside the bubble the world is perfect and no one will do you harm?

I think what happened to your mother happens everyday here because we all have stories of random acts of kindness like yours. Don't you? You have been here longer after a while do you see things differently?
Just a lot more traffic than in 2005. There are also a lot more outside visitors coming to the Villages especially in Brownwood and Spanish Springs Squares.

The various Universities I have been at-- UNR, BYU, the University of Denver, the College of San Mateo, and the University of Minnesota are more like bubbles as it is usually only students, staff, professors and the occasional event attendant on campus. Here in the Villages, we have people coming in from many of the other communities quite often. And, all the workers keeping the Villages pristine as well. You do not see that many workers on college campuses.