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Leisureville
- Adventures in a World Without Children
- Narrateur(s): Johnny Heller
- Durée: 7 h et 32 min
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Description
When his next-door neighbors in a quaint New England town suddenly pick up and move to a gated retired community in Florida called The Villages, Andrew Blechman is astonished by their stories, so he goes to investigate. Larger than Manhattan, with a golf course for every day of the month, two downtowns, its own newspaper, radio, and TV station, The Villages is a city of nearly 100,000 (and growing) missing only one thing: children.
In the critically acclaimed Leisureville, Blechman delves into life in the senior utopia, offering a hilarious firsthand report on everything from ersatz nostalgia to the residents' surprisingly active sex lives. But this is more than just a romp through a retirement paradise; Blechman traces the history of the age-segregated retirement phenomenon, and travels to Arizona to show what has happened to the pioneering developments after decades of segregation.
A fascinating blend of serious history, social commentary, and hilarious, engaging reportage, Leisureville is an important book on a major, underreported trend.
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- 2019-10-09
Interesting overview on a social experiment .
This lifestyle has never held an appeal to us. We as retired boomers have visited friends in gated, contrived, white, right wing Florida retirement communities and it never felt like it was a good fit for us.
We prefer to stay with our wide age and socio economic range community, our schools, school buses, strollers, playgrounds, bikes, laughing kids, snow and ice and spectacular fall colours. We will continue to pay school taxes to the local school board who educated our children and grandchildren.
Clearly this type of lifestyle meets the needs of many retirees and I wish those people well. Socialisation is powerful medicine. Not everyone has the benefit of family nearby. However there appears to be a need for a lot more transparency and flexibility in some of living arrangements and contracts .
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