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Originally Posted by djplong
I may not agree with the predominant politics around here but I do believe in the truth (especially when backed up with reliable statistics).
1) The Villages, crime wise, is WAY safer than the national average on all kinds of crime.
2) There are always bad apples in every barrel.
3) Ask any public-facing employee (anything from a clerk to a fast food cashier) who the most troublesome, most entitled, hardest to please people and they'll tell you that it's OUR generation (I'm 60). Too many of us were raised spoiled by The Greatest Generation (because they didn't want us reliving their horrors) and, while that's an easy accusation to make, it DOES tend to come true too often. Most of us aren't like that - but ask them who stands out in their minds and it's usually some entitled old person.
So I have no trouble in believing that there are a lot of low-level spats going on. Heck, seeing the arguments in the nursing home I worked at as a teenager right up to the one my mom was in starting last year - the evidence is there.
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I agree with you completely but would like to share another view of your point #3.. yes, many in my generation may have been spoiled. But, most of the people I know were raised by very hard-working parents who instilled a strong work ethic in their children. Unfortunately, that same work ethic is missing from the younger, more spoiled generation.
I would also like to offer that some of the residents in TV are dealing with the frustrations of the health and mental issues that come with the "new normal" of aging. Frustration is often displayed as anger.
Don't get me wrong, I don't agree with verbal or physical abuse. ..but, I would ask that we all be a bit more hesitant to use the word "entitled" until you have walked a mile in someone's shoes.