As The Villages, America's largest retirement community, continues to expand, sinkholes threaten to swallow the community whole.
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nytimes.comPosted Feb 25, 2021, 12:54 AM UTC
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nytimes.comWe can hope
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America's largest Q-anon compound, too.
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The Villages, last stop before they go back north to be buried.
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Sinkholes could take care of that without the rehoming fee.
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That place is full of STDs
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When all you have to do is fuck and play shuffleboard.
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Glad my dad just retired from insurance defense law lol. Developement in Florida is mostly crap, but the trick is building enough that the lawsuits dont make too much of a dent in your profits.
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I watched this and felt really bad for a lot of the seniors there for some reason. It didn't feel like they were really happy.
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I haven’t watched it but I drove through it a few weeks ago while traveling. I can’t imagine why they would be happy. It’s just strip malls and stores in the middle of nowhere. It’s so far from the beach, any city, another human that isn’t 75. Seems like living in a bubble with the same kind of people wouldn’t be fun.
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I'm familiar with the area. Thats just central Florida in a nutshell. The downtown area is alright. And tbh if you drive 2 hours east or west and you're at a beach. Plus, they don't want to be around anyone that's not their demographic anyways.
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A lot of suburban northerners like it. The Florida weather is an upgrade. It's inland so they don't worry as much about hurricanes. They like golf and eating at chain restaurants.
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It’s not a sinkhole it’s a retirement community!
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their's a difference? oO
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Omg, that’s the joke!
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Man this thread is just full of Villages hate. Spend a couple days there with someone who knows the place and I'm convinced you'll love it. It's just a college campus for folks over 65: there are activities and clubs for literally everything. Tons of golfing, pools, games, etc. Woodshop? Yep. Radio-controlled boat racing? Yep. Kite flying? Yep. Belly dancing? Unfortunately, yep. Pickle ball is a fucking blast and happy hour runs every day from 11-7. There are definitely some horny old folks just looking to smash, but ffs, who cares? Don't bang them and you won't get their STDs.
What's not to love? Oh, right, they're super conservative. I don't know about y'all, but my parents weren't exactly getting more liberal in their rural midwestern town; if anything, the Villages has exposed them to new types of people. I'm as left-leaning as any average redditor, but shoot man the Villages is just a fun place.
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A lot of us locals just find places like that creepy and artificial. Also it just kind of keeps sprawling out and influencing our home region in ways that make us uncomfortable. Its not a good feeling to see the land around your hometown become unrecognizable so a 75+ community can move in.
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Uh, so like... you just described the entirety of Florida.
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Man this thread is just full of Villages hate.
Apparently people having fun in retirement is hated here in florida. I dont get it either.
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It's likely because they've had to work with residents in one way or another. They only get more entitled as they age. They can be downright nasty, especially if you're younger than them.
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I'm less concerned about their fun and more concerned about how a bunch of people who never worked here get to come affect the election results of the entire state with their low info horseshit minds.
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Thats a lot of assumptions.
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There are no assumptions. The villages is a conservative stronghold and massively distorts the population density of central Florida.
In addition, while most of FL are transplants, myself included, it is also widely understood that most of the villages are from other places.
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Some of that is trying to make FL like where they came from. Just like every ex-pat area around the world. If you want a cheesesteak like Pat's/Geno's - go back to Philly...
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I hate the villages for what they are doing to rivers on both sides of the state. Their water use is out of control.
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Interesting! I’d not heard about this before, but it makes sense. Any further reading you’d recommend?
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Nobody's hatin on the Villages because they play pickleball dude.
jfc
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Right, yeah. I didn’t say anyone is; it was just an example of something nice about the Villages.
Maybe I’m just a simpleton, but I’m not ready to cheer on STDs or sinkholes for an entire town, like many people in this thread are doing.
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If they stayed in Kansas, Florida could have a shot at a government that helps people instead of always saying “fuck you got mine”.
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One can only hope.
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Welp
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So anyways I still have indigestion from taco Tuesday. I should probably see a doctor about that. Getting old sucks but at least I know I’ll always have a cost efficient resting place in some central Florida sinkhole.
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A part of me feels like this place is just people throwing seniors into a place, throw confetti at them, and expect them to feel happy all of a sudden. That, or people just wanting to avoid caring for their older relatives
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Is that bad?
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Yes
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That would be such a shame......
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oh, goody!
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Gods waiting room is about to open the gates
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Is there some way we can encourage the sinkholes? Maybe a nice cake and card?
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The sinkholes happen with more building. Building on top of our under ground water system hurts all of Florida. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/science-behind-floridas-sinkhole-epidemic-180969158/
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Clap vs. Sinkholes!
Which competitor will destroy the Villages first?!
That's how you get molepeople with STDs.
That would make a great Netflix series.