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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
Agreed. Thanks to the massive expansion of The Villages, there are fewer and fewer neighborhoods where young families can raise their children. Public schools are getting worse and worse while the Charter School is taking more and more children of lower-income employees of/at The Villages. Private schools are few and far between. Middleton is great, IF you work in the southern half of The Villages. But why would anyone want to commute an hour in each direction for a relatively low-paying job as a doctor, nurse, PA, receptionist, scheduler, phlebotomist, etc at TVH up in Spanish Springs?
TVH was awesome for years because it was relatively exclusive, and didn't need thousands of employees to care for tens of thousands of patients. That's all changed. It's become an enormous machine that has been pieced together with duct tape and zip-ties, and the only people who know how it's run, are getting ready to retire.
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In summary, the Villages has, and continues to, grow too fast relative to the necessary infrastructure and employment base needed to support the needs of a very large senior citizen population. It’s one thing when growth outpaces service jobs like irrigation repair or restaurant cooks and service providers, but it’s entirely another level of problem when growth outpaces the availability of quality healthcare. This whole unfortunate thing happening with The Villages Health is exposing a very serious problem for an aging population with greater health care needs than the general population.