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Originally Posted by graciegirl
I don't know how to phrase it but I worry about offsite landlords buying up tons of resales and renting them out. Two, or three or four or even five homes owned by a responsible villager that is onsite most of the time is good, but people who are not of our demographics with ONLY a view to make money coming in and buying property to make this a vacation destination really worries me.
But what worries me more is that it does become a place where villagers run it . We will go down the tube fast when that happens. We will take the amenity funds and build all of the things that each person wants until we are overspent and underwater and then have to raise the amenity fees until it isn't the reasonable amount that allows almost everyone to afford to live here. We will have indoor pools and performance centers and dog parks and charging centers for golf carts and people will be able to freely drive their golf cart to Miami and Miami folks will be able to drive their golf carts here and the average age will become thirty and we will see signs all about for three golf carts in every garage and chicken in every pot. Whoops...I got a little carried away there. But it would be UGLY.
I do not want to see the inmates running this asylum.
Love live the king.
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I don't think that you got carried away at all. It sounds like most municipalities and states in this country.
The problem is not democracy as I see it, it is the bastardization of democracy. The federal government takes so much of our money and then holds it out to states and municipalities in order to get them to do what they want as though they know what's better for us.
Throw in the fact that people who have gotten in power in the past have set up a system slants the electoral process in their favor and we get this system that's no longer a true form of democracy.
We are not and were never intended to be a democracy anyway. We are a representative republic. Pure democracy would never work with anything but a small number of people. It would simply take too much of every one's time to be involved in making every decision that get's made. That's why we hire people to make those decisions for us.
I don't understand all of the worrying about this place getting to big either. I really don't care. I have my little house and little bit of land. I have nice neighbors and everything I really need within a short golf cart drive. Things that happen down below 466A don't really affect me and I don't think that they ever will. I don't know that any different form of government will ever be necessary. What we have now appears to be working just fine and I don't see why it wouldn't work if the population doubled.
Just my opinion.