That time of year

Editor:

Once again it is that time for the annual payment to GVR. This year it is $403.

There is no doubt that this dues will only accelerate upward in years to come as all sorts of whims are appeased.

It still seems to me to be illegal somehow that my property is attached—held hostage if you will—to my being submissive to this organization which I never participate in and to which I have no interest whatsoever.

Granted when we came to GV some 14 years ago, the thought of recreation facilities seemed interesting, but this did not prove to be true for us.

Things change!

We lose interest in certain kinds of automobiles, clothes, houses, music, etc.

Our appetites fluctuate with age and other consequences.

Why are we connected in a “til death do us part” yoke with a recreation facility?

Why can’t we break with our relationship to GVR when it also becomes of no interest to us?

Admittedly the initiation of the GVR-property-deed-hostage concept for those living in Green Valley was a stroke of genius to the initiators at that time in that it enabled the few to be underwritten by the many in their pursuits of their own entertainment.

I am still wondering however if it is legal or moral to force the uninterested to pay for the entertainment of others who are not so inclined?

Paul F. Caron, Green Valley