The Villages Florida

anyone remember a show in the 60s called the prisoner Patrick McGoohan the place fells like it

Yes but the Italianate village, Port Meirion, where it was filmed is real, it's in North Wales, not a bit like the one in Florida. It's very sedate. It's a lovely place for a short holiday 🙂

That place in Florida sounds like the Hotel California!
My idea of hell.

I have been to Port Merrion and found it very unsettling. A whole village of toy town houses, where no on lives permanantly, just stays up to a fortnight. We went there on a lovely sunny day, it was beguilingly aattractive, but felt weird.

That man in the van looking for a rich woman who he wouldn't be ashamed to be seen with in public...

Why would a rich woman necessarily want to partner up with a man? If she's rich, she can pick and choose her friends, as can anyone actually.

And maybe the 'rich woman' might prefer a man who was economically independent. How arrogant to assume that simply being a man makes him a 'catch;?

Ugh!

Doesn’t sound like my cup of tea.

And yet we hear so often of older people so alone, without close family, diminishing/no friends and the adverse effects on health that it has so maybe it is heaven to those who can't face such a future. We are all different.

M0nica

I have been to Port Merrion and found it very unsettling. A whole village of toy town houses, where no on lives permanantly, just stays up to a fortnight. We went there on a lovely sunny day, it was beguilingly aattractive, but felt weird.

Well, yes, especially since The Prisoner was filmed there. Driving out after staying there it felt as if we'd reached normality again 😁

But it's not like that place in Florida which sounds horrendous.
It was different and peaceful when we stayed.

The problem is that the lonely people who would most benefit from living in a community, if not like Florida,the kind we have in the UK, are the people least likely to contemplate moving to one.

Monica, many people opt for 'assisted living' flats, my
in - laws did when my Mother in law developed Dementia
and my mother did , its just another form of collective
life.

OH, yes, I know halfpint1, but not necessarily those who would most benefit from it.

Definitely not my cup of tea, I like not having any very close neighbours and like that I have a wide range of different friends of different ages. OH and I stayed at Port Meirion a few years ago, just one night and we ate in the hotel. We had a good giggle as we were surrounded by couples of our age and older and most of the men were wearing pink trousers. It was very old fashioned with regard to service and so was the menu. I remember having a steak with stilton sauce and snails for my main. It was glorious weather and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, there are some nice walks with lovely views. It was not at all like I imagine the place in Florida is like as it was a rather buttoned up middle class sedate place.