[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

An all-too-familiar refrain. "I have my little piece of heaven, but now it's time to slam the door."

The Villages is what it is. Homogeneous houses arranged in "villages" that often bear only a superficial resemblance to one another. But those VILLAGES aren't growing. New Villages are added from time to time but The Villages grows OUT, not up. The Village where I live will undoubtedly look and feel the same in 2033 as it does in 2023.

There are valid concerns however. One, as mentioned by another poster, is infrastructure. That can be developed, and I don't think we have any reason to doubt that it will be. The other concern though is labor. The jobs in The Villages are service jobs. Housing is being developed to address this at least in part, but, as stated on the Indeed website, "Average The Villages hourly pay ranges from approximately $10.00 per hour for Host/Hostess to $27.39 per hour for Videographer. The average The Villages salary ranges from approximately $23,701 per year for Truck Driver to $356,000 per year for Endocrinologist." Unless your job is in the Videographer - Endocrinologist range you're going to have a hard time housing and feeding a family on what you can earn here in TV. Comparing like jobs in surrounding areas populations similar in size to that of TV--well, TV very definitely comes off second best, often by very sizeable margins.

How to address that, other than by businesses substantially increasing what they're paying? Unfortunately, I don't think there is any other way. It seems to be a choice between higher prices, or poor (or no) service.

A.I. and ROBOTICS are going to eliminate the NEED for most low-paying jobs, so that will NOT be a problem soon enough. The problem is that the up to 30% of unemployment may require EXTENSIVE social changes.......NEVER an easy situation.