Being old looks awesome – and when places like The Villages exist, we can’t wait to hit the pensioner-stage of our lives.
Located in Florida, The Villages is an “old-age home”, but not like anything you’ve seen before. It’s a haven of fun, activities, drinking, unattached sex, and is basically the platform to “live the life” in the golden years of your life.
Here’s a few pieces from Buzzfeed’s Alex French’s experience when he visited The Villages:
This is how Americans are spending their golden years — not in the cities and towns where they established their roots, but in communities with people their own age, with similar interests and values.
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It’s a Monday night, but nobody’s keeping track. Guests shuffle in right around sundown, exchanging hellos while attacking the Shiraz and mixed nuts. Low-60s temps and nobody’s sure how to dress — the guys are in golf shirts and shorts and flops or else and sweaters and khakis. The gals don bedazzled knits that betray their ages. They talk about golf. About what they did today, which was play golf.
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The sexual habits of The Villages’ inhabitants have become the primary lens for the way that just about every media outlet covers The Villages. Maybe it’s the only sane and easy way to deal with our most potent of our fears — aging, decline, impotency, death. The idea of olds fucking grosses us all out, but why is it so surprising? This place is inhabited by people who feel strongly that they’re not beholden to anybody.
A waitress tells me about key parties at an Italian restaurant on Sumter Landing: “Golf cart keys get put in a fishbowl in the middle of the table, wives wait in the parking lot for their mystery dates.” I’m told about a prostitution ring that has recently been broken up. Orgies are said to be a regular occurrence. I am warned about women prowling around bars indiscriminately offering oral sex. There is reportedly a black market for Viagra. One of Bob’s buddies confesses to watching a couple fuck in a golf cart on a dead-end street.
A lot of us think that our grandparents deserve to hit a spot like The Villages, or the local Oasis, but there’s always the concern of where their stuff is going to go. After all, they won’t need that floral couch and ancient coffee table where they’re going.
So if you’re shipping them off to the senior citizen paradise and need a quick solution for their current hoarded goods, Stor-Age offers a great solution – providing a same-day storage solution for everything and anything – Don’t forget their special, for the first month you only pay R1, yup that is correct, R1, and there is no minimum amount of months.
Not only that, but you’ll also get the use of the Stor-Age van for free throughout the move – pretty neat, right?
Check out the full story on Buzzfeed.
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