[Magdalen] immigration / migrant situation --->Re: Professionalpanhandlers; was Loaned out.

[Roger Stokes]

On 15/09/2015 20:47, Jim Guthrie wrote:
>
> Even some ostensibly middle class people drift toward some cities at 
> least. One of the largest cohorts of people moving to New York remains 
> retired people from the Sunbelt. They retired in the 1960s near the 
> golf course or canal for their boat, and now they're widowed (or 
> widower), not able to see to drive at night --  or maybe in the 
> daytime, too frail to run a boat or even play golf, so move to New 
> York City and take an apartment above a grocery store. Well, maybe 22 
> floors above the  grocery store, but shopping becomes easy, getting to 
> the doctor is easy, getting to the movies or a show (or even the 
> Metropolitan Opera!) is easy, and they can usually get meals on wheels 
> in 30 days if they need it.

Joan and I could never understand why a Provost of Wakefield retired to 
a converted tithe barn on the outskirts of a village outside Scarborough 
when his wife had health issues.  Yes, we have both always lived in 
urban areas but we realized the importance, particularly as one ages, of 
being within easy reach of medical care, shops and public transportation.

Roger