just saw this great documentary called Some Kind of Heaven by @lanceopp about The Villages in Florida, an age-restricted community that’s like Disneyland for old people and similarly Baudrillardian except with a more urgent backdrop of loss and mortalityhttps://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/27/upshot/the-giant-retirement-community-that-explains-where-americans-are-moving.html …
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“Between 2010 and 2017, The Villages was the fastest growing metropolitan area in the United States, growing 32.8 percent, from 94,279 in 2010 to 125,165 in 2017”
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Florida is never turning blue. It’s always counterbalanced by this....
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apparently the population there is 130,000 people and 98.7% white!
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