What an absolute piece of vendetta journalism this waste of paper in book form is.
We bought it, hoping it would be some information in it before we moved down. The writer obviously has it in for Gary Morse and has no understanding at all of what our community is all about. A person can punch so many holes in his writing it isn't funny.
Let me give you just one example.
Page 222-223
"Children represent the future, and a community without them is as doomed as the celibate Shakers. The Villages is probably not far behind-perhaps a few decades. The architecture may present a historical facade, but nothing there is built to last-not even age segregation, which may be abandoned one day out of desperation, in a last-ditch attempt to add vitality and population long after the Morse family has disbanded it's advertising and sales departments and left the scene with its fortune. The Villages' form of government guarantees that amenities fees will be collected, but it doesn't guarantee that there will be people to collect them from. I suspect it won't be such an attractive destination once the homes start to deteriorate and the vast majority of residents are shuffling by on walkers.
Says nothing about the Villages schools. June Kids Camp, or any of the area childrens sponsored activities. Why even just the other day I saw in the paper about "Adopt-A-Kid Adopt-A-Vet" with fourth grade students.
Also, the "writer" has a very nasty perception of what being a senior citizen is all about.
The man just stereotypes.
One of the things that sold us on the Villages was some of the unspoiled reserve areas, and the large old growth trees that surround the area. To read this guy, you would think there was nothing but the rape of the land.
nuff said.....
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