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  • taiwan_girlT Offline
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    https://www.travelandleisure.com/the-villages-florida-most-desirable-city-to-move-8624649

    The Villages in Central Florida, known as the largest retirement community in the world, had the highest in-to-out ratio, 4.38, meaning that for every one hundred people who leave the city, another 438 move in.

    “The Villages is a racehorse that’s outpacing every other city in the country for growth. Fueled by a ‘silver tsunami,’ this Baby Boomtown has been on the rise for a decade and shows no signs of slowing down in 2024.

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    • Doctor PhibesD Online
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      Who wants to live with old people?

      I was only joking

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      • 89th8 Offline
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        Ask your wife?

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        • 89th8 89th

          Ask your wife?

          Doctor PhibesD Online
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          Doctor Phibes
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          @89th said in No. 1 City in the US that people want to move to:

          Ask your wife?

          Here's a bit of international diplomacy for you....

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          I was only joking

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          • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

            @89th said in No. 1 City in the US that people want to move to:

            Ask your wife?

            Here's a bit of international diplomacy for you....

            2a3721ed-22f8-4b9a-8801-3e0317a49969-image.png

            George KG Offline
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            George K
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            @Doctor-Phibes said in No. 1 City in the US that people want to move to:

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            That's interesting.

            Being of Eastern European descent, I was told that this is an offensive gesture - akin to the middle finger. Thumb between index and middle fingers.

            Screenshot 2024-04-10 at 8.12.57 AM.png

            It's such a fun game to play with babies and tots. "I've got your nose!" you say playfully after you've made a gentle swipe. To prove you've really snatched their proboscis, you hold up your hand, curled in a closed fist, with your thumb sticking up in between your pointer and middle finger. Your thumb, of course, is supposedly the baby's nose.

            Alas, while this game is common in the U.S., Australia and Canada, it's never played in Turkey. In that country, the hand gesture, commonly known as "the fig," is like calling someone an unprintable name [source: Peters]. It's also quite insulting to people in Indonesia, Italy, India and some other Asian countries [sources: Language Trainers].

            This gesture hails back to ancient times when the Romans used it to indicate sexual union. In a positive manner, that is — to wish someone good luck and fertility. It also was seen as a protective measure against the evil eye. The Romans called the gesture mano fico, or fig hand, as they felt the thumb-in-fist looked like a woman's private parts. "Fica" is Italian for fig, and also slang for vulva; Romans equated figs with female fertility.

            image.jpeg

            "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

            The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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            • Doctor PhibesD Online
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              I'm sure we've talked about this before, but there's an urban legend that the British V-sign originated after the battle of Agincourt, as the French used to cut off the fingers of captured English archers, and this was a way of saying 'F-U' to the French from archers who retained the critical digits.

              Probably not true, but I really wish it was.

              I was only joking

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              • George KG Offline
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                #7

                Johnny Carson: "I was getting into my car, and some hippie flashed the peace sign at me. I returned half of it."

                "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                • Doctor PhibesD Online
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                  Doctor Phibes
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                  #8

                  A friend of mine got into a whole mess of trouble on a school trip to Italy when he gave some Italian kids riding past on those little motorbike things the 'thumbs-up' sign.

                  I was only joking

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                  • jon-nycJ Online
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                    Shitty measure - it basically adjusts for size.

                    They’ll end up, after a lot of drama, with the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta: take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.

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                    • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                      Shitty measure - it basically adjusts for size.

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                      @jon-nyc said in No. 1 City in the US that people want to move to:

                      Shitty measure - it basically adjusts for size.

                      It’s amazing how many people get pulled in by that trap.

                      The Brad

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                      • George KG George K

                        @Doctor-Phibes said in No. 1 City in the US that people want to move to:

                        2a3721ed-22f8-4b9a-8801-3e0317a49969-image.png

                        That's interesting.

                        Being of Eastern European descent, I was told that this is an offensive gesture - akin to the middle finger. Thumb between index and middle fingers.

                        Screenshot 2024-04-10 at 8.12.57 AM.png

                        It's such a fun game to play with babies and tots. "I've got your nose!" you say playfully after you've made a gentle swipe. To prove you've really snatched their proboscis, you hold up your hand, curled in a closed fist, with your thumb sticking up in between your pointer and middle finger. Your thumb, of course, is supposedly the baby's nose.

                        Alas, while this game is common in the U.S., Australia and Canada, it's never played in Turkey. In that country, the hand gesture, commonly known as "the fig," is like calling someone an unprintable name [source: Peters]. It's also quite insulting to people in Indonesia, Italy, India and some other Asian countries [sources: Language Trainers].

                        This gesture hails back to ancient times when the Romans used it to indicate sexual union. In a positive manner, that is — to wish someone good luck and fertility. It also was seen as a protective measure against the evil eye. The Romans called the gesture mano fico, or fig hand, as they felt the thumb-in-fist looked like a woman's private parts. "Fica" is Italian for fig, and also slang for vulva; Romans equated figs with female fertility.

                        image.jpeg

                        AxtremusA Offline
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                        @George-K I am aware of another variant, popular in certain parts of Asia, there the thumb is placed between the middle and ring fingers instead.

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