Tucked away in the northwest corner of Oolagah Lake is the exclusive, elusive, and ethereal district of Victoria. The beautiful blend of lined streets and long driveways with quaint brownstones and pricey lake houses. Victoria appears welcoming but is very discriminating with whom buys, sells, and permanently resides in their district.
Victoria is Latin for victory and those who are fortunate enough to call themselves Victorians must have such luck to obtain the access and the funds. Victorians have won in life, love and are devout in their beliefs that it was all earned. Those with access handed down must prove themselves worthy of keeping it by creating their own wealth. If those with old money fail they may decide a relocation would best and allow someone more worthy to reside in their district. You see, it is not about lineage or family, but it is about legacy. Who would not want a home built by James Towner, and counts Marilyn Courter, Joseph Fernandez, and Olivia Onlind as past owners and residents? Who cares if none of their children amounted to anything? That is what makes Victoria special. Lineage is not a guarantee. Those who flounder their opportunity, flaunt their family’s money in Eastland, Gaines City, or if they are bored The District.
Population? Less than 500,000. However, those few residents do fund most of the grassroots activists in Gaines City and are heavy supporters of established politicians in The District. Yes, many have scholarships named after them; budding talent and awkward genius count on them at the Eastland academies.
What are the three words all Victorians must know and live by? They do not have any. If someone has achieved enough to acquire such a relocation, they have ingested and digested them using their specimen as mulch to enrich the bodies they have climbed over, thrown under, and buried.
Visitors of Victoria can sense the rotten secrets beneath the surface needing reburial before being unearthed. But most visitors hold their nose and enjoy the sights, scenes, the parties, the peculiar people, and most importantly the… money.
