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Krause: Reader offers reason for dissatisfaction

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I live in Sun City West, am 60 years old, read the Independent weekly and would like to give Bill Schwind some clues about why people my age are not moving here and why the likes of us that did are dissatisfied.

The clubs mentality is old news, that was my mother’s and father’s generation, when mothers did not work, were home all day with children and it was a special event to socialize.

Those days are gone. We all had and have jobs still, see people daily, can watch the news for current events. The club cults are not inviting. I tried a couple since moving here three years ago.

People my age are not privileged like the older people here that have been left inheritances or property from elderly relatives. Those days are gone also, so to be a winter visitor and own and pay taxes on two properties within the United States is unfeasible and out of reach of the overpriced housing here for the poor amenities. The golf courses are just big flat fields that all look the same. The clubhouses are a joke with folding card tables and plastic cups for drinks, old stinky buildings, bingo halls, no one is really using them. They only feel they have to because they paid for them. Dog parks right adjacent to the tennis courts that are supposed to be quiet for concentrating.

Look around, wake up! Vistancia, just across Loop 303, is beautiful — clubhouses with food, drinks, atmosphere. Nothing like that here. Just old people complaining about younger people like me, who like to play music, grill outside, play yard games, laugh and make noise.

Now they want to even keep every Airbnb out. You are not a friendly community, you’re a compound controlled by a few with money.

Instead, they pick on each other about rock stealing, too tall of bushes, palm trees that look bad, no more orange lollipop trees that they throw away the fruit from anyway.

This community is old, tired and crabby with privileged people that don’t want to live and enjoy life. They come here to be left alone and die in peace, with barely any family to visit until they die and sell their homes.

Laura Krause

Sun City West