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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna

You’ve discovered why people describe The Villages as “living in a bubble”.

The attitude of the locals towards Villagers ranges from indifferent tolerance to downright hatred. How would you feel if suddenly a community of 145,000 self-interested, non-working, almost entirely Caucasian, wealthy northerners dropped into the middle of your modest, unhurried, rural southern community?

We justify our existence by saying how much we’ve helped the locals by providing jobs and increased income and not thinking for a moment that the people who lived here liked it the way it was.

Nailed it!! I get so tired of people blathering about "all the jobs we've created" People did like it the way it was. Villagers do treat locals like they are beneath them. It was beautiful when it was rolling meadows with horses and cattle grazing in the fields. Pave paradise and put up a parking lot.