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Originally Posted by beekman
Gracie, I thought The Villages were America's Friendliest Home Town! It sounds like the South (of 466) is trying to secede from the Union...we could have our own Villages civil war...North versus South!  I have traveled north to south and east to west and it ALL looks very nice to me. Location is a personal preference and appears to be an obvious bias depending where one lives. It is a shame when we start to designate specific areas to be superior to others. This can and does start to produce cliques which destroys the true friendliness and hospitable nature of the original concept of this great community. |
You misunderstood. You can find many threads documenting that what village you live in or what kind of home you live in has NO bearing on how you are treated or thought of. I have been asked where I live and feel confident that is just simple small talk and has nothing to do with putting me into a class. What you say applies to everyone in the real world, but not here. We in The Villages may very well judge our neighbors on their character but not on the color or location of their home. CLIQUES or interest groups are mandatory in a community of 100,000 people. Since you cannot go to dinner with or have 100,000 folks oner for games at your house, I strongly recommend you form smaller groups of those that like the same kind of food or game that you do. Broaden your taste and interests and we all will find our own niche or group or clique.