“There is a small herd of them, who will be pulling the full time plug now or at the end of the year. Many more will be making that move in the next few years as their last kids finish college or trade schools.”
That brings to mind what that ignorant fool Obama said: “There’s only so much you can eat. There’s only so big a house you can have. There’s only so many nice trips you can take. I mean, it’s enough.”
What that moron didn’t understand is that folks who work hard to increase their own income are also generally creating wealth for the country as a whole through their work effort ... remove enough productive folks from the economy because “they’ve got enough”, then they truly are no longer creating additional wealth for the country as a whole, but instead truly become little more than passive consumers.
Our home is just under 3000 square feet. It did a great job of providing shelter to our family and other kids that adopted us.
We love our area and have great neighbors and decided to be carried out of here, feet first. So we had ramps, a walking shower and other old people stuff installed in and out of our home.
About 7 years ago, we did a full retro re new roof, paint jobs in and out. Our engineer son coordinated a plan with the guy, who installed our 2 new heating/AC systems. We had new insulation installed from the floors up to the ceilings.
We had two heating/cooling systems installed. One for where we live 24/7, about 1200 square feet, and one for the rest of our home with a thermostat for each area. The bigger one in the fall, winter and spring stays at 62 degrees unless we have company.
Our main area has a Nest thermostat is programmable with our cell phones or the wall switch. We keep it at about 68 in the daytime and 62-65 at night. The air filters are high rate and washable. Our window washer every 4 months, washes them and changes the filters, when he does the windows.
Our PG&E bill is about 1/3 of our neighbors’ with smaller homes under one system and one thermostat. Many of our neighbors have old and inefficient systems. Their PG&E bills are double or triple ours.