New Family Housing
 

I do not mind the all ages. It will bring in more doctors, nurses etc, who could not live here before with their kids.

My only objection, is that they will crowd up our rec centers even more than they are now. In the Villages, I don' t believe they will say no to a Mom 30 yo and her child of 10 for cardio drumming.

Senior classes should be senior and the same in reverse. We do require a bit of specialization in our class due to restrictions.

You need a Villages ID to use the rec centers. I didn't think these workers were able to get an ID.

"FOX News"! Everybody drink!

Retiredguy is correct. They will not pay amenity fees nor be about to use the amenities...

The family housing TV is building will have their own pools, rec centers, etc...

.....but what if their rec centers are "better"??? :smiley::smiley::smiley::smiley:

Actually, 7 years ago most people could leave their doors open here in La,La Land and keys in golf carts. it is relatively recently that crime has caught up with the "Bubble" here. Parts of New Jersey and New York seem to have been high crime areas for maybe 4 generations.

Bah, we’ve seen crime here 7 years ago and prior to that. More people, more crime.

The 1st sentence IS true, but misleading. Wages were high in terms of actual dollars. But, wages have been STAGNATE in terms of CONSTANT DOLLARS for at least the last 20 years. Constant dollars factor in inflation, which even back 2 years or more had been moving at about a 2% CLIP year over year. Constant dollars give a person the idea of what could have BEEN purchased say for 10 dollars in 1990 and how much LESS you can buy with $10 today.
.......In other words, money CHANGES VALUE over time. IN 1965 if I looked around I could buy a running (with some cosmetic problems) USED automobile for $600. I even purchased a 1981 station wagon AUDI with a slant FIVE engine in about 1995 for $600. Today $ 600 will barely buy you a nice new bicycle.
.........The reason I "bash" golf is that I don't consider it a sport - much like shooting pool. Pool is a skill not a sport. Golf is just played on a BIGGER green table. Which wastes good forest land, but I digress. I just find it humorous how SO MANY people in V Land go ALL ga,ga over GOLF. it's like follow the leader......you golf so I MUST FOLLOW AND golf. Golf has some small redeaming qualities. I have sometimes at twilight when no one is looking......taken out a 9 iron and a plastic ball and hit it around a park and ran after it. I have even used a real golf ball and hit some 9 iron shots on a nearby fairway.SSSHHHHUUUSSSHHHH don't DARE tell anyone, I don't want to ruin my reputation. Golf NEEDS people like me to balance out all the Ga, Ga men golfers, and all the Lady GA GA golfers. See how I got to the punch line. Anyone, anyone.

Full-time loan officer in a bank in 1965 made less than $5,000 gross.

Yes, actually we agree on another something....strange they must be putting something in the water of La, La Land. University Admins are MILKING THE SYSTEM. And do we know WHY and WHEN ? Anyone, anyone? I the 1980s DE CEO Jack "the welcher" Welsh made a salary of $ 350 MILLION buckos, me bucko. And, the story continues, the University Presidents decided that if Jack "the jerk" could make THAT much money why can't they interc----- the system also? Then the US was off to the races with the GRAND GOAL of being the country with the biggest SALARY discrepancy between the upper 1% and the middle and lower class worker, SALARY SLAVES !!!!!
.........So here we now stand - Back in the US of A working our way to "back in the USSR oh, how happy we are"

It was the student loan program. Once anyone could borrow enough money to go to school colleges started spending like drunken sailors and raising tuition to cover their excesses. Now we have a generation with more debt than their degrees can pay for.

I'll have what he's drinking! :loco:

I am my waitstaff.......we cook for ourselves and eat on paper plates as I watch the Nicole Wallace show or get ready to work on the house or the yard. Or I sit at a keyboard and PRETEND to be as smart as a couple of Medical Doctors..........but I keep coming in 3rd place in that pack. Poor, poor Mr. Irrelevant me !!!!!
........Since the Pandemic I have not even been to Paneras, which is my idea of a $600 dinner. They do (or did) have killer COFFEE to die for.

Cool !

Yes, of course, that goes understood.

Property taxes normally, which are progressive so those (OF YOU) with lots of property (2 homes) pay the most for school taxes. So riddle me this Batphysician.........would that INCENTIVIZE LARGE property owners to eliminate Vocation Ed ( too expensive) and force ALL students to bend toward academic fields (even though they are good with their hands). Incentivize large owners to put people on the school board to keep public school budgets low. And encourage private schools.

I imagine that SOME will find flaws with my dissertation. Anyone, anyone ?????

Sure. In the Yellow Pages, look for LA La Land Servitude Inc.

Wow !!!!!! An actual something to agree on. Whooppee Beejangles Batman!

Well stated.

Oh, a Shakespearian Tragedy is forthcoming. Foresouthe.

I agree. Yes, part of the reason. There IS something being put into our water........people are agreeing. Wow, I am going to start a Hippy Commune for over age 55 dudes and dudesses and Ludites and lewdites. High five !!

I wouldn't know. I've never lived in either of those places...

And statistics will show that when you increase the population by X%, crime will also increase by X%...

More nonsense...

REAL wages were increasing AHEAD of inflation. That means the average American was INCREASING their purchase power.

You comparing prices from almost 60 years ago means nothing.

In 1985, I was paid $9500 as a resident... My first year in practice, I made $25K...

None of that means a thing today...

To your second "point"...

Sport:

noun

1. an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.

Since you've never played the game, you haven't a clue as to the actual physical exertion and hand-eye coordination needed to play competitively... (a 9 iron and a plastic ball doesn't count...)

What in god's green earth does the CEO of GE have to do with colleges hiring un-needed "social justice" administrators?

And that led to "SALARY SLAVES"??? :loco::loco::loco:

Yup! Every time the gubmint raised how much you could borrow, schools increased tuition by a similar amount...

But that doesn't take into account that less and less money is being spent on actually teaching the students as more and more money is being spent on useless administrators...

BZZZT! Nope. It's those "GREEDY" developers, paying for the schools out of their own pocket...


P.S. Your envy is also duly noted... (Not an attractive trait...)

BTW, you should be grateful that I own two homes. That means, while I pay full property taxes and amenity fees year round, I only use the services "part time"... You're welcome...

Except drunken sailors stop spending when they run out of money...:p

Chill

I am a person that believes the optimal population of the US SHOULD be about 250 million peeps. I am aware that I am an outlier on this and am "spitting in the wind". That said, let me finish with this........If you have 1X number of people and you the add 1X number of illegal immigrants with no education or shots and disease then you end up with 2.5 times the crime. Now, before someone calls me a racist, let me say that I think the same thing would apply if the illegals were Canadians or Swedish. It's the number of peeps that is the problem.....POPULATION. Every animal species has a HOLDING CAPACITY which depends on their range and territory (like wolves) and also like the human population in the US OVER 250 MILLION.
.......But, America has a FRONTIER mentality (too many John Wayne movies). And builders of estates can't help themselves - they build til they drop. Remember everything about America IS........bigger is better. Bigger homes, bigger cars, louder motorcycles, bigger cell phones, bigger waistlines, bigger appetites, get an operation and have BIGGER bust and whatever !

1+1 = 2.5? That's some interesting math you got going on there...

But I'm glad to see you're fore securing the border...

And if you think it's only "America" who think "bigger is better", you haven't traveled much...

Oh, too bad, i can hit a plastic ball 9 iron with the best of them. An accurate 30 yards.
.......And get a new recent History and economics teacher because Real wages have ONLY increased in the last 2 years. No real change (taking inflation into consideration since 1990. And I have covered ALL that in prior posts. Maybe I need to water down the economic vocabulary.
........So, you admit that back then, you were just PRACTICING! Sorry, I could NOT resist that Bad, old Doctor joke.

I have been drinking coffee to the point of being a fully caffeinated and functional human being. The drug of choice for the bottom 90% of the economic food chain. Pure Puerto Rican coffee beans, mis Amigos and Amigas.
Also, the drug of choice for the construction and mill workers of America. I believe that Native Americans had an upper-type similar. History, anyone, anyone?

I would POLITELY suggest that my post should be re-read !

I abso-toot-ly agree with that last sentence. High-five, or at least high-4.

OK, I'll show up with some suitcases and we can party.
.........As far as ENVY goes, I am GREEN with it. Everybody knows I believe in the GREEN revolution.

Roger Doger on sentence 2. '
......And sentence 3.....YES, I have lived a sheltered life, just hanging out in my Mother's basement.
........And building and designing a home can be a "labor of love", but economics, financing, and laborers MUST ALL work together smoothly or The whole thing falls through (the floor). It is LIKELY that a recession is approaching, so the LITTLE PEOPLE (peeps) will get HURT the most (it always happens that way, funny). And the BIG people will come and buy up your mortgages at pennies on the dollar. Beware the SUITS !

Real wages HAVE NOT increased in the last 2 years. The average American family has $4200 LESS in spending power...

They have SHRUNK 3% with the current administration.

Per the U.S. Gubmint:

Real Wages Have Shrunk 3 Percent Since President Biden Took Office - House Committee on Ways and Means

Even CNN says they have SHRUNK...

Fact check: Biden makes false and misleading claims in economic speech | CNN Politics

Anyone who thinks $20/hour is gross overpayment should try to live on $41,600/year.

When the cast member at Disney walks into his/her Walmart, guess what? Their eggs cost just as much as Joe Retiree living on a "fixed income". Gas costs just as much, but the working stiff has to buy more of it.

If you can't afford to tip the person behind the counter, or it brings a financial hardship to you, don't do it. But if that's the case, probably spending money on fast-food meals is not a great choice either.

I totally agree with whoever it was in a previous post who said watching too much TV news, whether it be CNN or FOX is a recipe for misery. Get out, breathe some Florida air, be glad we are not bracing for that ice storm. Try to enjoy the few precious days we have left. Don't let some TV newsperson with too much make-up spoil your day.

Carry on.

Hey, thanks- :) The post you are referencing was #44 in this bizarro thread. That post was mine,

The “news” is causing so much anger— along with all those other negative emotions — to run rampant.

Add FB and its spawn to what those television channels grind on and on about and we sure are in a mess.

The so-called “news” is calculated by the power brokers to keep the viewers in a heightened state of negativity.

It is interesting — though actually terrifying — to read about something known as the amygdala hijack. That’s when the emotional part of the brain takes over the thinking part of the brain.

The amygdala is the emotional response territory of the brain and when it is constantly under siege it can take over normal thinking and cause behaviors that can wreck all kinds of important, in-person relationships.

Pogo was right. (sigh)

Boomer

Totally coincidentally, I was having a conversation yesterday with a friend of mine, who approaches politics from the opposite end of the conservative-liberal spectrum, than I do..He was telling me about a friend who has a family member glued to TV news. All day, every day, always tuned into the same network, never hearing any other message. It has so affected her personality that nobody wants to have anything to do with her, regardless of their political leanings. She has become so unpleasant to be around that nobody will do it.