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Originally Posted by Wing-nut2
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My first thought was to say “What utter garbage!’’ But then I read the entire article and found myself laughing. Part of it IS “utter garbage.’’ Orgies? Swingers wearing gold shoes or a single red button or a shirt label turned inside out? Really? Where are all these swingers when you need them? (Actually, I do know a handful, but they are rare and rather lonely.) Black market viagra? What? Why, when a hundred doctors will give us a prescription? A town full of drunken people? Cheap drinks? Well, so what?
As I read on, I realized that this article is actually a terrific public relations puff piece. If I read this, I would LONG to move to the villages. Oh, wait, I DID read pieces like this, and books, and I DID move here, and the reality, even though curbed at present by the virus, is even better than I had hoped. I’m having a wonderful time here! The “Daily Mail” is a British paper. I’m expecting a big influx of British people here in the next few years as a result of reading the paper. Welcome!
Racism? What’s the sense of racism when everyone already looks like you? Classism? Everyone who lives here has prospered, and hardly anyone is rich or poor. Social class comes down to whether you have a courtyard villa, a patio villa, or a home on a golf course. Ageism? Yeah, we look at the crime reports and see that it’s those young people causing most of the problems. Safety? This is the safest town of its size on earth. The article complains about rules about lawn care, but look at those photos! It’s the rules that keep The Villages looking like a resort, a place where everywhere I go I can see beauty.
Hooray for us! Maybe we come here to grow old and die, but what a way to go!