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Originally Posted by PennBF
I can only state what I believe but I can't help you understand it. The biggest dangers are denial's and not caring. Historically that has always been the dangers of loss and failures. It is interesting how many go to denial or rationalize why it should just be ignored as someone else will handle it and/or it will go away. Most of us are 60+ and just want to kick back and
enjoy ourselves and let the next ones handle the potential problems. In the current responses you can see that attitude in the majority of them. With luck and a little care most may make it to the final call and not have to think or worry about it.
How do you look at some of the bushes that are now not trimmed until they look shabby, or look at the weeds growing where they never use to grow, I look at it as the fast growing season with all of the rain right now.
or take your chairs to the squares to see the parades only to find out they are not there, etc. There are only a few ways to psychologically handle this. We had a poll on here about parades and the posters on this forum who may or may not represent the populace did not miss the parades by a majority.
Either accept mediocrity, lower ones standards, denial, + others that don't
quickly come to mind. If you say none of this is true you may be in denial,
if you say it isn't that bad you may be accepting mediocrity or lowering standards.  |
Penn.
If we accepted every one of the things you are worrying about as gospel, there is STILL not a danged thing we can do about it.
We can meet, we can organize, we can discuss, we can cuss, we can vent. We are not going to make the developers tell us what they are doing, or plan to do and believe me, if I were them, I would keep my cards close to my vest too. We all are retired and we most of us have been successful, we are confident that we know how things should be done.
We have too many wannabe chiefs and not enough politically correct followers.
If it ain't broke, WHY worry about fixing it?
Between now and the worried about downhill turn, many may be having huge personal changes in our lives. We may meet with flood, disaster, winds, locusts, or plagues. And many may be moving to the village of Heavenly.
What exactly do you think is the way to fix what you are worried about? If YOU were the ultimate decision maker in The Villages and had a magic wand, what exactly would you do? Hire more trimmers? Hire a parade planning and presentation company? Would you have an HOA that ran things with representatives from each street?