Retired people shop every damn day because they have nothing to do. Just go to a grocery store at 10 am and there is no one there but a few moms with babies and retired men. You want to find a sugar daddy with a boat? ...reduced for quick sale bin in the meat department at 10 am is the place to be!
Your post really mirrors my frustration in finding what I want as we age. I really don't think that the developers get what people want...and I think the people themselves have not thought it through. Playing golf may seem like fun when you are sitting in the office imagining what you would do, but I'm finding that if you didn't do something before you retire, you probably aren't going to afterwards, either.
I have never golfed. Why do they think I want that now? Really, what percentage of the population golfs? A lot of golf courses won't even LET you walk, so where is the health benefit? Where are old hippies going to go when they age if everyone thinks they are building old folks homes for the Eisenhowers? Why are they piping in big band jazz for people who listened to the Doors all their lives? Not everyone can move to Asheville, you know?
I don't want to live in a senior community. The last thing I want is to have no one to talk to who is not broken, dying or boring as all hell. I want to be part of a real community with kids, young adults, the woiks. Don't cordon me off to wait for my inevitable decline, thank you very much. Yes, having appropriate services is good, but why can't a dentist see me and a 12 year old in the same day?
I WOULD like a spa bathroom, but why are they also giving me giant houses on multiple floors with multiple bedrooms and baths and walk in closets for all the teenagers who moved out long ago? A lot of people my age are trying desperately to sell their big houses because they don't want those kids moving back in with them when they get divorced or laid off!
I don't want a kitchen that I could prepare food for an army in? 99% of the time it's just the two of us. I WOULD like someone to think about the ergonomics of cooking when you have arthritis and other limitations. My idea about cabinets and counters changed a lot in the last few years.
I want luxury on a small scale and that does not seem to exist. You either get an 'estate' or you get a starter home for breeders. I don't want to maintain the estate and heat it and clean it! Nor do I want the lack of amenities in a starter home.
I would like to have a guest suite were I could TURN OFF all the heating and water and shut the door on it. So it is not a drag on my budget when no one is visiting.
I would love to be able to walk to a little village with grocery, butcher, pub, dry cleaner, etc. as you can do in Europe. Farmers market on Wednesday and Saturday morning, antiques on sunday afternoon. Not the suburbs where everything is a long drive away and parking and nobody knows anyone.
I've pretty much decided that I will have to build what I want.
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Your post really mirrors my frustration in finding what I want as we age. I really don't think that the developers get what people want...and I think the people themselves have not thought it through. Playing golf may seem like fun when you are sitting in the office imagining what you would do, but I'm finding that if you didn't do something before you retire, you probably aren't going to afterwards, either.
I have never golfed. Why do they think I want that now? Really, what percentage of the population golfs? A lot of golf courses won't even LET you walk, so where is the health benefit? Where are old hippies going to go when they age if everyone thinks they are building old folks homes for the Eisenhowers? Why are they piping in big band jazz for people who listened to the Doors all their lives? Not everyone can move to Asheville, you know?
I don't want to live in a senior community. The last thing I want is to have no one to talk to who is not broken, dying or boring as all hell. I want to be part of a real community with kids, young adults, the woiks. Don't cordon me off to wait for my inevitable decline, thank you very much. Yes, having appropriate services is good, but why can't a dentist see me and a 12 year old in the same day?
I WOULD like a spa bathroom, but why are they also giving me giant houses on multiple floors with multiple bedrooms and baths and walk in closets for all the teenagers who moved out long ago? A lot of people my age are trying desperately to sell their big houses because they don't want those kids moving back in with them when they get divorced or laid off!
I don't want a kitchen that I could prepare food for an army in? 99% of the time it's just the two of us. I WOULD like someone to think about the ergonomics of cooking when you have arthritis and other limitations. My idea about cabinets and counters changed a lot in the last few years.
I want luxury on a small scale and that does not seem to exist. You either get an 'estate' or you get a starter home for breeders. I don't want to maintain the estate and heat it and clean it! Nor do I want the lack of amenities in a starter home.
I would like to have a guest suite were I could TURN OFF all the heating and water and shut the door on it. So it is not a drag on my budget when no one is visiting.
I would love to be able to walk to a little village with grocery, butcher, pub, dry cleaner, etc. as you can do in Europe. Farmers market on Wednesday and Saturday morning, antiques on sunday afternoon. Not the suburbs where everything is a long drive away and parking and nobody knows anyone.
I've pretty much decided that I will have to build what I want.