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

[Jay Weigel]

I second that, Chad. I can't imagine being stuck out on the ocean with a
bunch of people I wouldn't want to be around on land. It would bring out my
inner Grouch in the worst way.

I seem to be becoming more of an introvert as I get older. this weekend, as
I mentioned in another post, is our Rock Club show. I will be one of the
licensed vendors, selling my own wares as well as slabs and tumbled stones
and other rocks and taking custom orders. It's two and a half days of
dealing with the public, which is pretty difficult for both of us. Monday
will find us both exhausted and wanting to curl up in a ball somewhere. I
get to do that. S/O has to work, but with luck can work from home and not
deal with the public. I enjoy doing shows, but they're immensely wearing,
and right now I don't feel at all well.

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 11:36 PM, Charles Wohlers <
charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:

> 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'...
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