anyone here live in senior only housing? [View all]

of any kind? i’m alone in this big house, and think a lot about moving on. tbh, i dont think that hard on it. i rly cant imagine leaving this place. i’ve been here for 37 yrs, and put so much of myself into it.
it’s an old greystone 2 flat that we down converted when there were 7 of us. it has a finished bsmt w a huge kitchen and a great family room. i did a lot of that work myself. there’s even a mural that i did w pieces of my ceramic art. but it is a huge pita to take care of this place. i dont do it well now. i was sick for a very long time and things got fairly bad.

i also have 2 dogs, and cant imagine not having at least 1 dog.
but my recent health scare was made worse by being alone. i put off going to the hospital cuz i had no 1 to take care of the dogs. at least now i know my neighbor is there to help. he was a real brick through it all.
and i know if any of my kids had been around, they’d have likely stiffened my spine w the asshole docs who ignored me til it was a crisis. there’s no way a kid is gonna move back to take care of me, tho.

but the thing is, here’s a story i tell on myself. i can walk into a room w 10 strangers and walk out w 7 new friends, 2 ppl will b scratching their heads, saying ‘what the heck was that’ and the 10th person will go home and sharpen all their knives. i always said i cd never live in a condo for that reason. someone wd insist i serve on the board, and someone will hate me for it.
the idea that i cd never get away from that person scares the crap out of me.

so, i’d b curious to know ppl’s actual experience. i have a picture in my mind of places like that comes from fiction, and tho some of it rings true, well….
i have 2 sisters who live in the villages, in side by side townhouses. they’re happy, but i think the magats wd make me crazy. and no, no way i’d live in fla.

i was sick for years, and i rly lost a lot of my social connections. now that i’m feeling my old self, sorta, i’m making a point of doing better there. i’d like to get a roomie or 2, but the place needs some work 1st. nothing that affects me, but stuff someone paying rent wd object to. it’s probably financially dumb to put the money in. when i sell the capital gains will b brutal. not looking forward to the disruption, either.

anyway, tell me about senior living spaces.