I had just gotten my drivers license in the 90’s and while driving to WDW I got lost in Celebration and couldn’t find a way out. I asked a random woman I saw in her yard for directions. Her reply was “why would you want to leave?” So creepy.

This whole situation makes me think of how Epcot was meant to be this, but an entire CITY. It’s genuinely terrifying to think about how that would have gone now that i know they actually did it on a smaller scale

I can't even begin to imagine the hell of living in a town with the sort of people who would choose to live under a Disney-run HOA.

The answer to, "Wouldn't it be great to live at Disney all the time?" is: NO. Because what makes it fun and special is that it ISN'T all the time.

Seems like the only thing missing from Celebration FL is a demonic golem in the shape of Mickey Mouse that rises out of the ground and kills you if you don't follow the neighborhood rules perfectly.

A town full of Disney adults sounds like a nightmare.

Not sure if anyone's said this, but Anthony'Todt's wife, in all likelihood, didn't kill their children. It was just Anthony himself, who couldn't live with the shame of being caught for his crimes and being nearly bankrupt. He decided to take his family down first before, going himself. Which he didn't even do the coward.

Celebration Town: he was the best [town] around!

Heck, this sort of thing goes all the way back to Walt Disney himself. If I'm not mistaken, one of the original plans for Epcott was essentially a closed off town run by Disney and that was back in the 50's.

corporate towns are weird af

I personally live in celebration, it's more of a quiet midwest town rather than the way you described it. There's no cults, creepy mickey mouse spies or disney run HOAs (Disney removed themselves from the whole city in the early 2000s). It's just a nice town that people who want to grow up and raise their children choose to live in.

If you call the cops in Celebration, do Officers Mickey and Goofy show up at your door?

Celebration is like if you took media-illiterate business majors and presented them with Brave New World, The Giver, Divergent, The Stepford Wives, Pleasantville, Wandavision, The Truman Show, and select episodes of Black Mirror, and they got excited at all of the neat ideas they could implement into their perfect neighborhood.

So, I live there. I am not in a house, so I can't speak on how good/bad the quality of them are. If you do want to buy a home here, and don't ask about the quality of it, with a lawyer in hand, then that's entirely on you, given the history.