People in The Villages are friendly, very friendly. As a native New Yorker this is sometimes hard to process.
Drive just a few blocks in your golfcart and everyone is waving. New Yorkers don't wave, the only time they wave is when they don't use all their fingers. Here they are always waving, of course I wave back, I don't want to appear to be some sort of subversive. I think I'm getting carpal tunnel syndrome from all the waving. I think I have to start doing the Queen Elizabeth II kind of wave.
The other thing about this friendly thing is that everyone feels the need to tell you their life story. What is with this? Are they telling the truth? It seems that everyone just left 10 acre lots in East Hampton, Grosse Point or Palm Beach. What is with that? Everyone had 6000 square foot houses. Did any of these people leave bungalows? How about the projects in the Bronx? I don't think so. What is it, are they liars? Special? Maybe a little crazy?
Part of all this friendliness has to do with the fact that we all need new friends, it's an ongoing audition. It's not easy to meet real new friends, forming real friendships takes time, we don't really have a lot of time. When you measure the remainder of your life in months rather than decades do you really have the time to make real friends?
What happens when you have been here a while, you have your friends, are you still friendly? Do you still wave to strangers? Do you still audition everyone that you meet?
Men here are a different breed, if you are a woman they aren't holding auditions. Speak to any man who is alone and he makes a point of telling you that his wife is nearby. I guess he is deferring all auditions to the wife.
Can you really make friends FAST just because you bought a house on the same street?
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