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Old 11-22-2016, 12:42 PM
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The November AARP Bulletin has an article entitled "In Search of The Good life" that has a rather lengthy article regarding The Villages. The article, with some photos, includes comments from several Villagers. "If you are bored it's your fault", and "and it's like a kid in a candy store", "what's going to happen when the baby boomers are done with this, what will happen to this place?" are some of the resident's comments.

The author of "Leisureville" Author Blechman, had to get his two cents worth in by calling TV "a privately owned city" and saying "these places will turn into necropolises". "The current young retirees coming to The Villages are the last of the lucky pensioners".

The article written by David Dudley says "this is a problem for tomorrow's Villagers". Meanwhile, us lucky Villagers will just enjoy......

Overall, I thought the article was interesting and as they say overall "fair and balanced". Perhaps the question, "what's going to happen to this place" left me with a slight chilling feeling but then I quickly forgot that and thought about my next round of golf----Fore!
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