Originally Posted by coffeebean (Post 2185946)

Just thought of a fantastic indoor sport that has A/C......bowling. Actually, I don't know how true this is but I have heard there are more bowlers in The Villages than there are golfers. Anyone know for sure about this?

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2185954)

That IS EXACTLY what I have been saying. Swimming is the only sport that you can do outside for about 8 hours (from 10 AM to 6 PM). It is SEVERELY limiting. And you have to wear a white long-sleeve pullover in the water and a hat to prevent SKIN CANCER. And put sunblock on the backs of your hands and on your neck. And the long-term global warming forecast by 99% of the scientists is for increased HEAT around the globe for the next 30 years.
.........Maybe if today's US citizens would start buying more E-vehicles and E-carts and bikes, then MAYBE, JUST MAYBE our children and grandchildren can SAFELY move BACK to Florida and enjoy Fl. as people like me did in the 1970s before Global Warming.
.........My problem is that MY megaphone isn't big enough to overcome the epidemic of complacency. I wish that what I say was NOT true. I wish that everything REALLY was honey and PARADISE in central Florida.

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2185959)

Yes true. BUT, those are ACTIVITIES NOT outdoor competitive SPORTS where you push yourself to the limit under the sun and humidity. Sure I have done yoga and book reviews and movie reviews indoors in the A/C. The book club does NOT put on gloves and go 3 rounds in a ring to argue about the value of a certain book.
.........Activities and competitive KICK-ASS sports are 2 different things!
.........Do bowlers EVEN break a sweat? How about the billiards players? And the poetry club? Do they run a mile race and then sit down and read poetry in the A/C.........................I don't think so.
..........Maybe the residents that do the ACTIVITY of beating up a large rubber ball with a stick DO break out into a little sweat. But, who are they competing with? Yes.....themselves........but that is NOT COMPETITIVE pushing.

Originally Posted by Jayhawk (Post 2185961)

For the most part, your wish has been granted. You're just pontificating now to get a rise out of people.

Originally Posted by Kenswing (Post 2185982)

Pretty sure he’s a reincarnation of ColdNoMore.

Originally Posted by Kenswing (Post 2185985)

You’re not trying to be informative. You’re trying to cram your views down everyone’s throat by your incessant posting. There is no reason to reply to almost every post in a thread to make your point. It just comes across as you believing that your opinion matters more than everyone else’s. You have 30 posts in this thread, twice as many as anyone else. You either feel that you’re more important or you’re not very good at getting your point across.

Originally Posted by Michael 61 (Post 2186027)

My post sure got hijacked, didn’t it.

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive (Post 2185893)

"It turned out that his beef was with seniors removing themselves from their jhome communities where they still had a viable and important role to 'isolate' themselves in senior communities, and The Villages was the best one to use as an example because of its size and popularity."

Interesting! We encountered kind of the same mindset among some Minnesotans when we (and a whole lot of others) decided to abandon L'etoile du nord for the land of sun and sand. Near as I could make out it really had nothing to do with our "viable and important role" in our home communities, but really more about what we were taking with us. Of course there were/are various reasons for not moving, but in a nutshell the ones who COULD afford to move, often did, and that meant taking our money, toys, spending power and various accounts with us.

Minnesota has been hemorrhaging money for some years now as the more affluent seniors as well as younger folks still working but able to move, have been fleeing the state like deranged lemmings. The population numbers in Minnesota overall have remained pretty stable, but as the people with the money leave they're being replaced by folks who more often than not see a "career" as slurping at the public trough. A third-grader can do that kind of arithmetic.

Guilt trip about shirking our responsibilities? Read "tax base". THAT is the real reason.

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2185959)

Yes true. BUT, those are ACTIVITIES NOT outdoor competitive SPORTS where you push yourself to the limit under the sun and humidity. Sure I have done yoga and book reviews and movie reviews indoors in the A/C. The book club does NOT put on gloves and go 3 rounds in a ring to argue about the value of a certain book.
.........Activities and competitive KICK-ASS sports are 2 different things!
.........Do bowlers EVEN break a sweat? How about the billiards players? And the poetry club? Do they run a mile race and then sit down and read poetry in the A/C.........................I don't think so.
..........Maybe the residents that do the ACTIVITY of beating up a large rubber ball with a stick DO break out into a little sweat. But, who are they competing with? Yes.....themselves........but that is NOT COMPETITIVE pushing.

Originally Posted by Michael 61 (Post 2186027)

My post sure got hijacked, didn’t it.

Originally Posted by JMintzer (Post 2185999)

Probably wouldn't have happened if they were playing golf...

Originally Posted by Quixote (Post 2186034)

A clear, objective, realistic view—thank you—but not according to Blechman who likely knew that it would not sell books....

In the heyday of the carrying-on of those touting the 'STD school of negativity,' counts of STDs are maintained by county, not by neighborhoods, villages, or The Villages. But in one of those year the naysyers were carrying on about the count of one STD having doubled, or increased 100%. It turned out that in actual numbers, in one y ear there had been two cases, while the following year there were four! And to think there are actually people who buy into this type of interpretation....

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2185934)

Every animal population has a "holding capacity", which depends on available food, range, and infrastructure in humans' case. At some point, for humans, the "quality of life" starts dropping. I am just hypothesizing that both the US and The Villages MAY (?) have crossed that threshold.