Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

Gracie you won't change my mind because

The rest of the world beyond your hometown and the Villages exists, and it is filled with a myriad of cultures, communities, diversity, neighborhoods, of all kinds. From the worst rat-infested criminal-laden slums to the poshest exclusive gated supermansions, and everything inbetween.

One of the few times I agree with Gracie. There are issues in schools today that didn’t exist when my wife and I went to school: drugs, lack of respect for teachers, violence, many one parent families to name a few. And yes my wife said the nuns would not give a social promotion. And you can experience a myriad of cultures right here in The Villages: the Italian Club, the Asian Club, the German club and many more. Why don’t you tell us about the idyllic places today where we don’t have to lock our doors.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Meanwhile, fake cashiers checks are as old as cashiers checks. There's nothing new about this, but technology progresses, the checks are harder to counterfeit, but then the counterfeiters catch up with the technology and get ahead of the banks, who then catch up with the counterfeiters, and it goes on and on and on.

Again, it's nothing new, it's not a rare phenomenon. Just because you never heard about it when you lived somewhere else, before the internet shoved information up our noses 24/7, doesn't mean these things never happened, or - never happened in your neighborhood. You really don't KNOW what went on back then, because - no internet. No cable TV. It didn't exist. There were no cell phones, there was no twitter, there was no CSI or reality TV.

Check fraud is OLD news. Banks are being more cautious, because there are more vulnerable people than ever who are targets waiting to be defrauded.