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

[Charles Wohlers]

Well, hell for me is being stuck on a cruise ship. YMMV.

$2500 a month is more than twice our mortgage plus taxes for this 22 acre 
"farm" in Vermont, and more than my 1900 sq. ft. house in Mass. would rent 
for (assuming it was in good shape, which it isn't). IOW, it sure doesn't 
seem reasonable to me for a little apartment, even if all-inclusive. But, as 
I said, YMMV.

Right now, we're healthy and active, and a retirement community is not 
something we'd consider. Perhaps when we're older and a good deal more 
decrepit, but not in the near future.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: ME Michaud
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2015 7:15 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] immigration / migrant situation --->Re: Professional 
panhandlers; was Loaned out.

You buy in ($250 - $400 K depending on the size of the apartment) then pay
$2500 per month (which is about the same as a studio or small 1 br
apartment here).
Includes all utilities & amenities and 60 meals a month (although the
apartments have full kitchens).
If you don't take all the meals, they give you a rebate.

They give back 90 per cent of the buy-in cost if you leave/when you die.

This is a pricing model that should make the residents' children very happy.

I ought to say that, for whatever reason, although I've lived in a private
home with family, an apartment alone, an apartment with a partner, I was
happiest living in a dormitory. I loved having my own private space with a
whole world of social stuff happening just on the other side of the closed
door, to join or to withdraw, as I wished. This was like that.

It was also remarkably like a cruise ship, with the daily schedule
spreadsheet on legal-sized paper handed out each morning.

I wish everybody had the opportunity to live in a situation like this (not
just old folks).
The place was spotless and, to my surprise, the common areas weren't hot
(like a nursing home).
-M


On Tuesday, September 15, 2015, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:

> sounds like *almost* heaven!  was this the kind of place where you 'buy
> in'...
>
>