The Villages Florida

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Doesn’t sound like my cup of tea.

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!

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.

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.

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unnatural,,

the idea of 24 hour piped music is ghastly,, I like my own peaceful sanctuary.. and a mixed age range of people when I do choose to go out.. it's all so unatural..

Definitely not for me. I’m with sodapop.

It’s on Prime as well. I watched 10 minutes a while back. Yuk.

Someone I know was on the committee of such a complex and there was one very awkward rude person also on the committee who vetoed everything that was suggested. As soon as they were no longer able to sit on the committee the whole atmosphere changed. Just because a person is over 60, it does not mean that they have learned to give, take, share and hold hands nicely as is taught in Kindergarten.

Theexwife The USA's elderly population can probably be counted in tens of millions. 80,000 isn't very many.

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It would be my idea of hell too I like to mix with people of all ages I couldn’t even bear an UK complex which I m sure would be a lot quieter
I need my space and a chance to meet people when I want to not be enforced into constant jolly, jolly activities

Presumably it’ll be a Marmite thing - love it or hate it. It certainly wouldn’t be my choice.

I like meeting people and I'm a member of the U3A which has great activities for older folk. But I also belong to things where I meet and chat to younger people and I enjoy that. I'm also very grateful that once I get home and close my front door I can be as quiet as I like. The thought of 24 hour socialising with only older people is a nightmare. I like to be able to read, paint or sew in peace. I was reminded of Dante's 9 circles of Hell. So I looked them up. These people seem to be stuck in 2&3 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/articles/a-visitors-guide-to-dantes-nine-circles-of-hell/

It would be just like being a student again!
I’m as introverted as they come, but it has a certain appeal (minus the Trumpiness, of course)
I don’t know anything about it, so I’m probably being very rose tinted too

Yes each to their own Theexwife like other posters it would be my idea of hell.
All that enforced socialising, I like my peace and quiet too much.

80,000 people must like it.

Gross. Worst nightmare.