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

[Jay Weigel]

Augusta Expo Center, Fishersville. Hours are 2-6 Friday, 10-6 Saturday, and
(I think), 11-5 on Sunday. Kids under 12 and Scouts in uniform are free,
Adults $4, under 16 I believe is $3. Bring the twins! It's going to be a
really good show this year.

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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'...
> >>
>