Posted on 10/06/2015 8:27:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
One of the promotional videos for The Villages, Central Florida’s city of the old, is all about golf carts. Picture a Boomer’s take on Pimp My Ride: Some carts are souped up to look like Model Ts, fire trucks, or Thunderbirds, or colored to rep a hometown sports team. In a city with no native sons, the carts are expressions of identity.
They’re also a central mode of transportation. In The Villages, according to the book Young-Old: Urban Utopias of an Aging Society by architect Deane Simpson, there are 50,000 golf carts and 90 miles of dedicated golf-cart infrastructure. Autocentric facilities like drive-ins and car washes have been adapted. Golf-cart bridges and paths lead to golf-cart parking. One-third of trips, in this city of 110,000, are taken by cart....
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Isn’t that the venereal disease capital of Florida?
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That’s what I’ve heard. Those golf carts are chick magnets.
Golf-cart drivers in The Villages are scary. Of course, so are regular-car drivers ...
I have family that lives in the Villages and I’ve spent some time there and traveling by cart is A-ok. You can go pretty much anywhere in the Villages by cart, and why not they’re easier to park.
If you go to one of the “cruise-ins” you’ll see a lot of fancy carts. Of course the nightly dances in the square can be a bit of a shock if you’re not used to seeing the 60+ crowd “boogie”.
One other thing I’ve found there is that the vast majority of the people there are fiscally conservative. There’s also a strong streak of not caring how people live. I guess when you’re in the home stretch, no one wants to waste time worrying about what someone else does.
Isn’t that the venereal disease capital of Florida?
I thought the Villages was God’s waiting room.
I always thought of it as the Elephant grave yard
of the United States...
You assume the two are mutually exclusive?
In the winter, you can get to most things on your snowmobile.
Neither has the fuel economy of a golf cart, and are far more expensive, but both are a lot more fun and useful.
Speed limits on the ATV trails are low, between 10 and mostly 35 MPH.
Snowmobile speed limits are mostly 35 to 45 MPH.
Some people do open them up a little, as they are both capable of far higher speeds.
“But they cost less than full-sized automobiles, their environmental footprint is smaller (less raw materials to construct them, less fuel to power them = better mpg), they are quieter, parking spaces can be smaller, they can’t kill anyone... The list of advantages goes on!”
Plus, you can go to the golf course clubhouse, have a few beers and weave home on the golf cart paths without having to run a DUI checkpoint. HUGE!
Even though Harley used to make golf carts back in the bowling-ball-company era, I prefer their two-wheeled version.
And I am an older lady living in Florida! LOL!
(I despise golf carts)
The carts are legal on city streets in the small town where I live.
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ROFLMAO!!!!!
I’m not there yet, age wise, but I’ve heard those places can be something else. The blue pill made a big difference.
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