As regular readers know, the DrsC have a winter home in a 55+ retirement community in eastern Nevada. The residents in retirement communities are oddly homogeneous in several respects and quite unusual in another.
Similarities? Live-in children are unusual, sufficient affluence to afford the price of both admission and on-going HOA dues, etc. Most are married, singles are more often widowed than divorced. Plus at any given time half the people you know have medical issues of one sort or another.
Unusual is that the residents came here from all over, just on our couple of blocks we've had neighbors from CO, MA, ID, WA, CA, OR, and even NV. Everyone arrives a stranger, we came here and made friends or acquaintances. And we basically take everyone at face value, assuming they were whoever they claim to have been before moving here.
My insight is that these 55+ retirement communities are perfect places to stash people in witness protection programs.The odds of running into a former acquaintance from back home have to be vanishingly small.
Nobody questions ones source of income, and as long as a person doesn't claim a false past with a lot of specific technical detail, nobody should get wise to the subterfuge. The ideal place to hide strangers is in a new community where nearly all arrive as such.
Residents can be as social or as hermit-like as they choose, and nobody complains or thinks it odd. One can even be gone all summer and it is taken in stride, quite a few of us do exactly that.
All of which has me wondering if anyone in our neighborhood could be in WITSEC? It is an intriguing thought.
