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

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Roger> Do you really want to
be in a community where you are the youngest couple?


Retirement communities come in all shapes, sizes and investment levels. 
Often it is prudent to look  because if one or the other person dies, the 
remaining person will be in a community that they are familiar with and have 
some kind of continuity... I'm not talking about nursing homes here.
Lynn

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From: "Roger Stokes" <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2015 4:44 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] immigration / migrant situation --->Re: 
Professionalpanhandlers; was Loaned out.

> On 15/09/2015 22:12, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
>> I recall that the main front representative of chamber of commerce
>> announced upon his retirement that he was moving because nobody can 
>> afford to live in New York State.
>
> That shows a metrocentric view of the State.  Last time I checked New York 
> State reaches up to the Great Lakes.  I haven't checked property prices 
> but I imagine there are lots of areas where life is cheaper than in 
> Manhattan.
>
>> I laughed at him!  What on earth are all the citizens of New York doing
>> then?  We seem to be getting along quite well, actually, and I'd match 
>> our
>> services with -- ah well.  Folks know what they know.  A lot of my 
>> friends are retirees, and we are doing fine.
>>
>> I can well imagine an older couple living in a small apartment in some
>> larger municipality, and living quite well.
>
> Probably a darn sight better than they would in a one-horse town miles 
> from a city they don't fancy driving in.
>
>> I love where we are, but the stairs are a factor, and when my mobility is
>> impaired, we'll have to move.  My spouse wants to move to a retirement
>> community, which has its advantages, but I find old people horribly
>> depressing, so....
>
> I am right there with you on that one.  About forty years ago I went to a 
> care home to celebrate Holy Communion.  Somebody who had been there on 
> respite care was getting into a taxi and one of the residents who attended 
> church said "Not many leave that way".  Do you really want to be in a 
> community where you are the youngest couple?
>
> Roger