Would you move to this 55+ community? (friendly, communities, states, retirees)
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We are working on the website for the Rock Til You Drop Community Project and have come to the design of our 'Vision' page. We would like to know if the following text paints an enticing word picture for what the the community will someday be.
Remember honesty is highly valued by our design team.
The Vision
Envision a small community of several hundred interesting, laid back folks, many with a deep passion for music and the arts built in a tax friendly state with a moderate climate located near a small town, great hospital, small college, and within an hour’s drive of an international airport.
Add to this vision that this intimate community is made up of many diverse pocket neighborhoods, all featuring energy efficient single family homes, small cottages, apartments, townhomes, and commune homes surrounding a beautifully landscaped commons area. The commons would feature a greenhouse, beautiful flower and vegetable gardens, and a multi-purpose building for musicians to jam and artist to perform. You can almost hear the lively banter as your neighbors gather to enjoy the ever changing music and art and wonderful company of the many loving and generous folks as they gather to enjoy shared meals presented several times a month by the many wonderful chefs living in the neighborhood.
Now fast forward a year or 2 into the future and imagine adding more of these enchanting little neighborhoods to the community all being built around the area which will someday be our quaint town square complete with restaurants, bars, shops, private and shared art and music studios, residential lofts and the community’s centerpiece… a small multi-purpose event/performance center outfitted to host concerts, plays, movies, and worship services.
As we continue to look further into the future, we see this community has blossomed into an actual city of its own now with several thousand residents calling it home. A city where tens of thousands of folks come to visit only to leave full of envy of the community and endearing lifestyle we have created by simply banding together several years ago with a shared, though somewhat altruistic vision of what the last third of our lives should be.
As the Rock Til You Drop concept becomes so popular, other RTYD communities will be built throughout the United States as well as other countries. And for the vagabond among us, folks will have the option to purchase their residences as ‘Travel Units’ which allow them to move to other RTYD communities every couple of years.
This community will be our legacy and we will be fulfilled knowing we have left such a wonderful place for others to discover their ‘inner hippie’
No, wouldn't even consider it. You've left out the important considerations. What does a home cost- what would the HOA association fees be ? What about community development fees ? What the heck are the rules and regulations ?
Also, someone who wants to live in a small community is not going to be happy with several hundred thousand people- seriously ? You can either have a vision of a small, sustainable community or you can have a giant megalopolis. You can't have both. That attracts different people.
Too many important unknowns for me and eventually way too large for my tastes. By the way, it's been done before without the music. It's called The Villages in Florida. More golf centered.
But good luck - start fleshing out the idea. Maybe you could make it work.
I had to go back to check to see if I actually said several hundred thousand people which I didn't. Like yourself I wouldn't want to belong to a community that large.
I had opted to avois all of the other details you described as they will be addresses in other parts of the website. This is just a short simplistic vision of what the community might be. If the very basics do not interest folks then I don't think there's a point to talking about those 'nasty' little details.
Yes, the Villages is the same concept though we are hoping to attract the more art and music passionate folks among us.
Yes, I would be interested because it does sound like what I am seeking. Alot would depend on where it is, how much it costs, and if I could sell it if I wasn't happy there. Am not happy where I am now, so I want to sell and move. I especially want to be around people my own age and interests, and not really young families. Need to have a great library nearby, a shopping center with movie theater, and good dirt to garden in. Oh yes. Historical influence counts for double.
My response would be, "No thank you." Too structured for my tastes, don't care much for tourists coming in droves. Want my own garden to grow what I want on my own property, not a shared one even with assigned plots. Not at all artsy-farftsy and didn't like hippies in the 60s and 70s. Don't know why I would now. Lastly, just like I wouldn't buy the first model year of a new car, neither would I buy a home in a new, structured community, and for the record, the word "structured" makes the hairs on the back of my neck begin to vibrate, and not in a good way.
DW and I say yes to a 55+. It has to be one that has people our own age and friendly. People with our interests and people that are not nosey neighbors. Okay that could be difficult to get that last one but we will strive for a nice friendly group that we can relate with.
No
Not the type of community I am looking for so I would not pay any attention.
However this is talking about the future and nothing in it tells me that whoever is building it can actually do it.
No thanks I once lived next to a musicain. The noise is lie having a kid with a ghetto blaster;if you know what i mean. Then think of more than one.
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