I'm David Farrier, a New Zealander accidentally marooned in America, and I want to figure

out what makes this country tick.

One thing I've noticed since being here in America is that Americans love to tap out

of reality a little bit, whether that means tapping into someone else's reality by watching

beautiful people on TV.

Listen, everyone has their own truth of how they think something happened.

Or running off for a day at Disneyland with its perfectly curated surroundings that make

you forget about the harsh realities of real life.

Now as I learned in the Epcot episode, Walt Disney had originally planned for that amusement

park to be a real community, more Truman Show than Theme Park.

But there's one place in America that really did decide to go full Truman Show.

Now with the cameras, but with the idea of this perfectly curated world when nothing

can go wrong, where the flowers are always fresh, and citizens live in perfect harmony.

That was an old ad for the villages, America's largest retirement community.

And it really is large.

Found about an hour's drive north west of Orlando, the village is home to over 100,000

people over the age of 55, and is spread out over about 32 square miles, an area bigger

than Manhattan.

It's so big, it gets its own designation on the census.

There are golf courses, pickleball courts, grocery stores, banks, and a roading system just

for golf carts.

And with a population with a median age of 67, there's an ongoing rumor that it's the

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