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Originally Posted by billethkid

I am not eaxactly sure whether you are looking for A utopian location or utopian world?

The ills of the world for most of us throughout history has been else where. But in fact have always existed.

There is the reality of those ills if one happens to live where they or it is or involved in a location where it happens. Then there is the perception of the rest of us who live in a place like TV of those ills of the world because they are fed to us and amplied 24/7 by the 24/7 amplifiers called the media.

We Americans and a very large percentage of the rest of the world go about our daily business in our own utopias. Most are away from the actual scenes of the tragedy and terrors in select place around the planet.

Some societies have been trying for centuries to change other societies for the better (a relative term/position).....to no avail.

TV for the most part as posted above is pretty much a utopia even with it's few grumps and speeders and bird flippers. It too can be made to be even more utopian by just not tuning in to the 24/7 media.

Sticking the head in the sand? No not really. When we did not know about what was going on there was not much that could be done. Now that we are so saturated with "knowing" there still is not much that could be done.

Remember the media looks at the world through a straw. So if they were looking at the side of an elephant through that straw, today's news would be about how gray the world is!!!!!!!

By exception they for the most part broadcast the ills of the world.....which represents the minority of the population involved at any given time.....and for the most part all the good that goes on in the world is really not given anywhere near equal time.

Now what if the two were reversed and all we ever heard about was the majority good that goes on in the world?

That is my $3.96 (2 cents adjusted for inflation).

Originally Posted by sunnyatlast

The closest thing to the friendly, caring hometown you describe as your home in VT…..is The Villages, Florida.

Better yet, The Villages neighborhoods have more capacity for caring, astute, and interesting world-experienced people to help one another and stay socialized, because of our close proximities to each other, and the vitality people gain by being outdoors and in the sunshine, not being isolated in the house or attempting to get around on ice for months on end.

This offers independence and neighbors/friends coming to help because they want to or it's easy for them, NOT because they are driven by guilt to come and help, as adult sons and daughters often are while working, saving, trying to finance their kids' education, and trying to find more hours in the day to help elderly parents.

Even better than that is nobody has to be "accepted" into society here based on being born here and how many generations of ancestors you have here. Everybody's from somewhere else, so pedigree does not enter the picture.

Both articles pretty much sum up our feelings here. As I've said many times before, TV is a in-freaking-credible place to be. It had to be for us to leave our son, his wife and 3 grandkids.