Village florida dating senior community

Coffee was just 10 cents a cup back when America’s largest retirement community was still trying to lure The Greatest Generation to settle there (founded in the ’80s, booming by the late ’90s), what these seniors had paid for it back in their younger days I used to visit the first movie theater there (there are others, now) and marveled at how artificially spotless it all was.

The Mission style Disney-ish architecture, the sea of cute customized golf carts, the smiling, busily recreating monocultural demographics (almost all white, old)–“brain washed” crosses the mind. But the overwhelming first impression driving in is still very Patrick McGoohanish.Īs in, “The Prisoner.” As in “I am NOT a number, I am a FREE man!”

It used to be more pronounced, back when The Villages was a smaller, more compact enterprise.