When his nextdoor neighbors in a quaint New England town suddenly pick up and move to a gated retired community in Florida called The Villages Andrew Blechman is astonished by their stories so he goes to investigate. Larger than Manhattan with a golf course for every day of the month two downtowns its own newspaper radio and TV station The Villages is a city of nearly one hundred thousand and growing missing only one thing children.In the critically acclaimed Leisureville Blechman delves into life in the senior utopia offering a hilarious firsthand report on everything from ersatz nostalgia to the residents surprisingly active sex life. But this is more than just a romp through a retirement paradise Blechman traces the history of the agesegregated retirement phenomenon and travels to Arizona to show what has happened to the pioneering developments after decades of segregation. A fascinating blend of serious history social commentary and hilarious engaging reportage Leisureville is an important book on a major underreported trend.