I read an interesting article in the Sunday paper that I haven't been able to put out of my mind. The article was about Sun City, Arizona. Evidently, this entire city of 42,000 residents is an adult community. We have neighborhoods in my area that are adult communities, but an entire city of 42,000 is unreal to me.
The bottom line is this. Nobody under the age of 19 can call Sun City home. Nobody. At least one resident in 80% of the homes must be 55 years or older. This is an exclusive status Sun City wants to keep, so how do they manage it? The Sun City police has a division called the "age police". In other words, they have child catchers.
While reading this article, all I could think about was the child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Lollipops, chocolate and ice cream ... they're all free today. Come children, come, come out to play.
Children 18 and under can VISIT up to 90 days out of the year. All it takes is an alleged violation (from your neighbor, Gladys Kravitz) to send the Sun City age police peering over your fence. Is that a stray ball? A pint-sized pair of flip flops? Is that a Justin Bieber song I hear? Lets face it, children are hard to hide.
It would seem logical to me that if someone never had kids, never wanted kids, THEY might be the ones who would want to live in a place like this. But a lot of these residents have grown children and grandchildren. WAIT a minute ... then aren't THEY the ones responsible for the existence of children in the first place?
I, for one, would not enjoy life without children around. I can't imagine living in a city without schools. I can't imagine going shopping where there were no toddlers helping mom pick out groceries. Nor would I want to live in a world without retirement age seniors. This type of exclusionary lifestyle doesn't make any sense to me at all. I'm just saying ...
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