Anyone else hear the story about the Villages on NPR this week?

[hedgehog]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125389925

All I can think of is this village:

[coffeenap]

1. Do you know it is a real place? My dd wants to visit!

:hi:

I think she wants to live there, lol!

[hedgehog]

2. I knew that the Prisoner was filmed at an actual place; what's scary is

to find out that people are paying to live in the Villages!

[SmokingJacket]

15. my husband and I went there for our 10th anniversary!

Trip of a lifetime, I tell you.

[elocs]

3. It's too bad that "The Prisoner" is not available on Netflix streaming or Hulu.

I would be interesting to see it again along with "Secret Agent Man".

[Lars39]

7. I think you can still watch it here:

http://www.amctv.com/videos/the-prisoner-1960s-video/

[elocs]

9. Well, yes I can. Thank you very much.

I can watch it nicely on my 28" computer monitor. I've got so much to watch on Netflix that I don't think of the other places.

Again, thank you for the link.

[Lars39]

10. Glad to help, elocs.

:hi:

[elocs]

16. Just finished watching the first episode.

"The Prisoner" was such a memorable tv series from my high school years. Done well because it was set with a specific number of episodes with a beginning and an ending, unlike today where they milk a good show for all it has, letting it run on and on.

I was always surprised that Patrick McGoohan did not become a bigger star. He was a good actor, a handsome man with a great voice. I do remember him from a short-lived series from 1977 called "Rafferty" where he played a doctor. I liked the show and so gave it my personal kiss of death and it was canceled after 13 episodes.

[Newest Reality]

4. Be seeing you! - NT

[YOY]

5. That's not a village (well not your photo but the story's village)

Villages are quiet places with dirt or cobblestone roads with animals bleating in the backyards, clay roofs and scarcely a house over two stories.

[Warpy]

11. There are still villages in New England

and while the streets are asphalt, the scale is a much more human one than the average suburb is, with houses closer together and closer to the street, many with front porches and front gardens so that they're pleasant to walk by instead of the blank expanse of lawn that makes pedestrians feel like bugs on a plate.

That's what distinguishes the village, the human scale, varied housing, and much that one needs within walking distance and parking lots tucked away in back of the buildings, not in front.

[YOY]

12. I know a paradise that I am retiring to when the year comes.

Quiet. Rural. Middle of nowhere in Eastern Europe. Plenty of black soil for me to play in and grow some personal crops (nothing illegal). There's an old green house I want to restore. A small garage with old iron tools that need sharpening and a small shed with a few pigs. A little elbow grease and I can make it semi-modern.

To some it would be hell. To me heaven.

[Warpy]

13. My wretched health causes me to cling to cities

because I need quick access to hospital care.

Other than that, if I could do it, I'd buy the next farm down.

[elocs]

17. I will be retiring to--America. I'll get myself a small trailer to pull behind my small car

and just see the U.S.A., going where I want, when I want, and staying for as long as I like. I have enjoyed a lot of personal freedom over the years and cutting the anchor will be one of my final freedoms.

This will be mine home:
light enough to tow behind my Scion xA, but big enough to sleep in and have someplace to sit and kick back and relax. If I could do that for at least 10 years, then it would be grand.

[trumad]

6. Actually it's a very cool place for retirees..

[HooptieWagon]

8. Very Right Wing Retirees... n/t

[Loge23]

14. It is Republican Purgatory

Palin visits this hellhole every time her broom lands in Florida - always draws a crowd.
It's stocked well with retired civil servants from NYC who make a pretty decent pension from the governments that they love to knock.
Probably the last vestige of the pre-Boomer/post WWII crowd.

[Mariana]

18. My parents want to move there for that very reason.

They have friends there and have visited. It's chock-a-block full of people just like them.