{"id":297,"date":"2008-09-28T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-28T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=297"},"modified":"2008-09-28T16:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T16:56:00","slug":"leisureville-by-andrew-d-blechman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2008\/09\/leisureville-by-andrew-d-blechman.html","title":{"rendered":"Leisureville by Andrew D. Blechman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0871139812\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">Leisureville: Adventures in America&#8217;s Retirement Utopias<\/a> is 95% about one place, so the &#8220;s&#8221; at the end of Utopias is a bit misleading.  It&#8217;s about a place called The Villages down in Florida that&#8217;s absolutely gigantic and filled with retired people.<\/p>\n<p>When I was a teenager, my grandparents wintered in Sun City, Arizona, which is what the other 5% of the book is about.  Apparently Sun City was a second generation retirement community and The Villages is third generation.  My grandparents loved Sun City and reading this book I could see why the people living in The Villages now love it.  On the other side, the author makes many good points about why large retirement communities are a bad idea.  He also makes it sound like buying into The Villages might be a bad idea.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen whether the Baby Boomers will want to live in these places which are both more social and more sterile than they&#8217;re accustomed to.  I certainly can&#8217;t see my parents there, much less myself.  But who knows what will happen when the time comes.  Having a place away from children, and safe from the possibility of the children moving back home, could sound like utopia in another twenty years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leisureville: Adventures in America&#8217;s Retirement Utopias is 95% about one place, so the &#8220;s&#8221; at the end of Utopias is a bit misleading. It&#8217;s about a place called The Villages down in Florida that&#8217;s absolutely gigantic and filled with retired people. When I was a teenager, my grandparents wintered in Sun City, Arizona, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}