[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=The-Shoveler]For retirement I think no one would be looking for a multi-level condo IMO but what do I know.
My mothers Single level Condo on a golf course is Ideal for her. Walmart and Amazon show up at the door no problem (actually they show up no problem at my place and I am quite a ways out in the boonies, have not tried dinner dash yet).
She has not played much golf lately but her friends still meet up every morning.[/quote]
My cousin and his wife have a retirement condo at Laguna Woods. They remodeled it very nicely. They also own a big isolated house in Northern California. But the wife is social and she likes to be Laguna Woods, near her friends and family, even-though the condo is modest. Laguna Woods is very active with lots of social events for the residents. But, in my view, too organized and Disney like for old people.
The husband is kind of a loner so he prefers the house up north. Because the wife wears the pants so she decides where to go. So the house sits empty most of the time. What a waste! If it were me, I’d want to rent it out on Airbnb.
My cousin really wants family to visit and see his house. He’s especially proud of his new bathroom. But I told him jokingly (but seriously in mind) that if I visit up there, it will be once and only once. To me, anything too isolated should only be visited no more than 1 time.
The only place isolated that I visit is up the Hudson River from NYC. That’s where my relatives are buried and that where my dead mid-west cousin will be transferred for burial. I might even be interred there eventually, if they’d have me. Once my caretaker cousin is gone, the kids might visit the graves once in a blue moon. But in the end, the weeds will take over.[/quote]
Too late to take back my previous insult so I guess I’ll apologize instead. I have great pity for you Brian. Your urbanite elitism usually irks me but I am oddly saddened by it now. My wife and I are up to a combined 6 kids, 3 kid in laws and 11 grandkids, something I usually complain about because there is a birthday or a graduation seemingly every two weeks. Granted it is a blended family connected to blended families but your comments made me realize something. They all love coming to Temecula and that’s why I cannot downsize from my 5 bedroom 4 bath house (plus two pull out couches and a loft with cots. Because we get visitors almost weekly and usually they come in bunches. Only a few live in So Cal, some live out of state but I recently complained that we had people here 4 weekends in a row. The facetime calls with the grandkids come every night, so often that my nudist instincts have been thwarted and I have to wear pajamas at all times because as I walk in a room my wife is on a facetime call with a 4 year old who wants to talk with papa. Then it hits me, I’m the patriarch, the youngest graduated from college last weekend and when it’s all said and done my brood may be closer to 15 or 20 grandkids, encompass 4 races and speak 3 languages other than english. So when your next electric car has a longer range, you can come to my fair city because I think you will find the utopia you seek and the multicultural fantasy you dream of is alive and well, just so happens to be in the places you despise.
