I absolutely still care. Just because it's on the other side of the road doesn't mean I should cease to care. It's still my community. When I lived in Connecticut, I cared about the town I lived in. And my town was a lot bigger than The Villages. I had a financial interest in its success, I had a vested interest in knowing if/where crimes are being committed. I had an interest in knowing what events and activities were available. I cared if a snowstorm had caused damage to roofs of fellow citizens. I had friends and co-workers who lived all around the town, so of course I cared if their neighborhood was flooded, or a fire had ripped through their garage, or if the electricity was out where we worked on the other side of town.
Why would you NOT care? Of all the possible places we could have moved to, the idea of moving to a place that was NOT an actual community, never made it to the "great ideas" list. This is a community. It's enormous, and it keeps growing, but it's still a community.
To me, it's no different from asking if I care about the person sitting next to me in the pew if I went to church. I don't have to know them, to care about them.
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