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

[Grace Cangialosi]

Where is the show, Jay?

> On Sep 15, 2015, at 11:48 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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'...
>>