Six years ago my wife and I made the decision to move to Little Egg Harbor. We chose an age-restricted community to purchase our home. It has been a wonderful experience thus far with a few bumps in the road. The people in Southern Ocean County are very down-to-earth, good people with a strong sense of community, and an abundance of common sense that is refreshing.

Our planned community involves gates at the entrances. I am not a fan of “gates,” as it sends a message of assumed superiority to…