That's what happened to Sun City in Phoenix -- youngsters "really enjoyed" moving to a place their grandparents saved 50 years to enjoy, because the "55+" rules were legally unenforceable. Now it's just a large suburb, overrun with children, and suffering the same petty crime problems as any neighborhood with growing teenagers.
I really hoped that The Villages was far enough from city employment to avoid that fate, but I see more and more 30-somethings walking their dogs in my neighborhood every year, as well as their tattooed teenagers slinking around in their hoodies with the hood up on an 80-degree day.
Oh well. Nothing lasts forever.
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