[Deckboat234]

This article What Retiring to The Villages in Florida Is Really Like | Work + Money

No wonder people think the villages is just one wild party with articles like this. The author needs to come visit to see what the villages is like. Her sources were Reddit comments.

[Gpsma]

But some truth in there too.

[Keefelane66]

Sometimes you must walk around listen and observe its not All “La La Land”

[frayedends]

Getting so sick of reporters saying there are so many swingers. Heck this reporter didn't even get the rumor right, mentioning upside down pineapples instead of loofas. But it is tiring trying to explain to my friends that I'm not moving to a swinger community. Reporters like this are just looking for clicks.

[dano121]

Apparently this guy is local and has an axe to grind. We have been here for two years and honestly have not run into "Rude" people. Almost everyone we have met have been really, really nice

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Cruisin' Cajuns have 75-100 RVs that drive around at any given time drinking barrels of draft beer? I have not ever heard of this phenomena but apparently it's a national thing. I've definitely never seen it here.

On the other hand, if you read the article, it's not really an article. It's an op-ed of an aggregate of reddit posts. So you have reddit, which is not a news source at all, ever, it's a trash heap of ignorance and social misfits who vent their frustrations with the world. And you have some blogger pulling a few posts from the trash heap, and expounding on the salient points, without doing any fact checking. Why no fact checking? Why WOULD you fact-check anything on reddit? The result of all reddit fact checking will be "stop wasting your time reading reddit."

[LeRoySmith]

Originally Posted by frayedends

Getting so sick of reporters saying there are so many swingers. Heck this reporter didn't even get the rumor right, mentioning upside down pineapples instead of loofas. But it is tiring trying to explain to my friends that I'm not moving to a swinger community. Reporters like this are just looking for clicks.

Why try to explain it away? Just grin and say its amazing.

[Number 10 GI]

Originally Posted by dano121

Apparently this guy is local and has an axe to grind. We have been here for two years and honestly have not run into "Rude" people. Almost everyone we have met have been really, really nice

Try working in a service industry job in TV. My granddaughter worked at a bank here and couldn't believe how arrogant and entitled some of their customers were. Not just a few but many. My cleaning lady has told me stories of how difficult it was to please some of her entitled clients. Treated them with no respect or courtesy.

[Happydaz]

I don’t think this is an accurate picture of The Villages at all. It is another hit piece written by a young person who mocks older folks for enjoying their retirement. The Villages is the best place I have ever lived in. The people are great. There are many clubs and activities to be involved in and this active style of retirement suits me perfectly. I moved here eleven years ago and it is one of the best decisions I have ever made. I am in bed by 10PM and up at 6AM and I have no idea where these immature writers get these nonsense stories of wild parties from. When I look out the window at 9 PM and everything is “lights out!”

[bopat]

Looks like she specializes in those "top - x" lists of content without content, I think most of them are AI generated.

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[PugMom]

it's Reddit, you guys, that speaks for itself

[JoMar]

Originally Posted by Number 10 GI

Try working in a service industry job in TV. My granddaughter worked at a bank here and couldn't believe how arrogant and entitled some of their customers were. Not just a few but many. My cleaning lady has told me stories of how difficult it was to please some of her entitled clients. Treated them with no respect or courtesy.

One sided views.....unless you fact check only an opinion.

[Stu from NYC]

Wow we are here 4 plus years and never knew about all this sex and drinking going on.

Another hit piece on the villages

[Laker14]

Originally Posted by Gpsma

But some truth in there too.

Hard to argue with the Mustang Sally comment.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by Laker14

Hard to argue with the Mustang Sally comment.

There should be a law making it a jailable offense to line-dance to Led Zeppelin in public. I've witnessed this abomination of movement myself. It happens, people.