No. 1 City in the US that people want to move to
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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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Who wants to live with old people?
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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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@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....
@Doctor-Phibes said in No. 1 City in the US that people want to move to:
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.
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.
"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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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.
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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.
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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.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in No. 1 City in the US that people want to move to:
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.
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.
