[MichaelToronto]

I am quite a bit younger than retirement age, but was very interested in the set-up of The Villages from seeing commercials over and over while watching golf on tv. I have enjoyed the website and have read Leisureville: Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias and a unrelated book Early Bird: A Memoir of Premature Retirement to get a "feel" for how The Villages works on a day to day basis (and to hopefully banish any preconceived ideas I have about who seniors are nowadays).

I found Leisureville a real hatchet job. It read to me like this guy just picked the people who were a bit more "unusual" or labelled a "character" who may have a hard time fitting in...There seems to be so much to do, that naturally if you have the slightest inkling to be social/kind in public, you can make friends/aquaintances?

It sounds very interesting there.

I wish you all the best

Michael/Toronto