Due to my blog and articles about life in Celebration, FL, I was interviewed for a Current TV piece. It's now showing on cable and is also available online: http://current.com/items/88972930_living_in_a_bubble

Poor Truman didn't get into the video, although you can see his cage in the background of the foyer shots.

Fascinating! That's really fantastic. "Creepy" is only a reaction to people who are used to being disconnected. I live in a small town dominated by "old blood" and it is hard to break into and to ride the suspicion. I like a place where everything is fresh with new ideas and modern values. I guess it would depend how the community welcomes and excepts new people. Sometimes I think when there is an external interest point, like Disneyland, in this case, it gives people less interest in getting bogged down in incestuous gossip and suspicion. It sounds nice.

I did see Truman's cage!

That was so neat. A very nice story on a beautiful place.
Thanks for sharing!!! I saw Truman's cage too.

Seaside Florida is a place I'd love to live. It is "planted" there too and the tiny "Truman" house is there.

I live most of the time, in a town so small, it doesn't even have a post office, a traffic light, a convenience store, grocery store or gas station. It has stop signs, but they don't work!
Actually I live in half a town. The other half of the town is in another state. Everything is in that side of town and the population for BOTH towns together is only 3,500. It was not hard to mix in here as the people are so friendly, but I was raised in Alabama and spend a large portion of my time there and in Destin/Fort Walton Beach, so I am not here all the time. Maybe that's why we get along so well here!

coolness and fantastic awww @ truman not being in the clip maybe next time?

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I was a little bit concerned about that when we moved here. I had heard that people who had been here from the beginning weren't too accepting of the newbies, and since we were coming in on the low end of the food chain (tiny triplex among huge estate homes), I wondering if that would be a problem too. I was amazed to discover that most people warmly welcome others here, and I've made some of my best friends here in town. Yes, we do have some grumps and snobs, but I barely notice because the majority are great. To give you an idea, after the New Orleans hurricane, a couple was staying here with friends, and their marriage had to be postponed because they had lost everything. The town banded together and put together a full-blown wedding, complete with honeymoon at the Grand Floridian, in literally days! That was so cool.

Hee hee, that just made me think of an irony. We get a lot of people in Celebration who confuse it with Seaside and think "The Truman Show" was filmed here. Truman is named after the character Truman Burbank (the reason is long and confusing and has to do with my cat), but I guess it's rather fitting that he lives in a famous FL planned community.

Hey trumans mama i tried to see the video that u posted but the website its not working??? DId they already remove it??/

Try a copy/paste of the URL...it's still out there and has made the Top 20 in the uploads section. I just checked and it was there.

I really enjoyed that!!

Obviously you're one of those people who have the knack (i.e. talent) for painting a bigger picture with fewer words. I really got a feel for the character of the town from your description.

Hey Trus mama, I fianlly got to see the vid. SO you are a star and yeah i did get a glimps of Trus cage. Maybe next time he can be on tv also. Hopefully when i get to Ocala again this year we can get together and meet up. It would be fun. Thanks for the clip

Wow! Super cool! "The Bubble" looks like a very fun and cute town to live in!

Congrats!!!