The Huffington Post had an extensive story recently on The Villages - America's largest retirement community (or colony) with 88,000 people. It's a great piece for anyone looking to understand the demographic changes going on in the U.S. and what they mean for Florida. Hint: In 20 years, Florida will have only two working-age adults to support one person over 62 - down from 4 to 1 today.
It is also a bit Twilight Zone: the development's scale and isolation make it feel more like a colony than a community. Almost everyone is old, almost everyone drives a golf cart — they outnumber cabs in New York City by a factor of four — and almost everyone is white. But retirees of Hahnfeldt's generation, who are reshaping notions of what it means to be old, say that it sure beats the life they left behind.
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