General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Anyone here live in "The Villages"? [View all]Atman
(31,464 posts)I grew up in Florida, in Cocoa Beach. It used to be a hip surf town where everyone was a scientist and pretty progressive. Now Brevard County is something like 87% Republican. It is literally painful to go home. It is bigly Trumpsky territory, and despite Elon Musk and the renewed space industry, science takes a back seat to nearly everything God and/or Trumpsky. My friends always ask why I don't move back to the supposed "paradise" since I live in cold icky Connecticut. I feel like I live in paradise, and we say it all the time, driving through the hills, around the back roads in farm country. This is one of the most beautiful places on Earth, not flat scrub-brush Republican jerkwater haven. I could never move back to Florida, and regardless of where it is located (Disney is trying to create a town in Norther New Hampshire, too, out of a struggling ski resort), I could never live in one of those Truman Show communities.