Median age in Paradise was fifty-two. My Parish Saint Thomas More had a choir nicknamed the BlueBirds for their bright blue robes. Everyone in the choir had to be 80 -90 plus.
There was a saying in Paradise that it was a town of the newlywed or the nearly dead.
Now the entire town is as good as gone, and it breaks my heart as all my old friends have lost their homes.
“There was a saying in Paradise that it was a town of the newlywed or the nearly dead.”
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I lived in Santa Barbara, California many years ago and I heard the same expression used to described that Southern California city (decades ago).