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Old 12-27-2021, 04:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Velvet View Post
Telling someone to move if they are unhappy is for their own benefit. They need to give themselves that option too. Why would they want to stay where they are miserable? One life, it might as well be the happiest one they can have. (Unless, of course they chose to be miserable, always find something to make themselves unhappy.)

The trauma of change can be likened to growing pains, part of getting to something better.
I don't think most people who tell others to move if they don't like it, are doing it to be "nice' or to help others. Generally it is being said with a mean, sarcastic tinge to it, code for "if you don't agree with me, get the heck out". As others have pointed out, nothing is perfect, there are things we like about The Villages, other things that could be improved to our way of thinking.