Yes, that’s her.
My Mom and her BFF of 50+ years live a ‘Golden Girls’ life. Both are widowed, so they live together in my Mom’s house. Their expenses are amazingly low (house is paid off, taxes are high but affordable, utilities manageable) while both live on SS and investments. Both have Medicare and Mom also has (low cost) health insurance through her previous employer.
They are 88 and 85 and both in very good health, physically and mentally. They both still drive. They are very active in their church and having lived in the same town for 50+ years, they have a ton of friends and a great support system set up for things that need doing that they no longer can do (lawn mowing, raking leaves, general home maintenance, etc.)
They have been living this way nearly 10 years, now. We six kids & the six Grandkids are all hoping to keep them both happy at home with no nursing home expenses in the future. It’s looking good so far!
I do the Rose storytelling because of a Scandahovian background, and she does the others because.... Well, just because.
Housing doesn’t have to be high. You have to live where it is cheaper.
Watch the Tim Allen alternative. Multi-generation family living together...and even when they aren’t it sure seems like it.
We’ll see in the new Tim Allen ratings.
Well, Dorothy and Rose didn’t have any money and had to continue working to pay their bills. Neither seemed like they had anything saved and Rose even said that Charlie didn’t leave her anything. Blanche is the only one who seems to have plenty of money. So is the model to hope that some kind stranger takes you in during retirement?
This is an Elon Musk company.
Yes, that’s her.
My sisters and I used to talk about living like that someday, “in our old age”.
But that was before I became a Trump supporter and they no longer speak to me, since I am a Nazi or whatever.
The Golden Girls is why The Villages in Florida has the highest STD rate in the country.
Love this show!
Getty is the only one of those women I could stand.
The sad truth is that we don’t live in a moral or responsible time period and families are divided, thereby largely (although not entirely) negating a Golden Girls or multi generational future.
For those who can achieve this I am jealous. Personally, I have no such friends or family although I have spent my life attempting to cultivate them.
I will not bore you with the betrayals, but I have learned that tv and movies are fiction and rarely if ever appear in real life.
Nevertheless, we have cared for both family and friends in their time of need and are planning/building a multi generational dwelling ... Just in case ... For our children.
Praying that all who can find this truly appreciate how blessed they are.
I gotta admit, I love my Golden Girls!
We all are too attached to our stuff and having things our way.
Like a lot of TV sitcoms they partray an ideal situation. The implication in the show and also in the article is that a joint living arragement is better than a retirement home.
I beg to differ. Engineering a group home with enough people to cover the cost of the residence and the taxes and expenses is not something that is easily done. A good retirement place for imdependent living is much better and easier to find. Anyone in their 70’s is going to need one of these eventually anyway.
As I recall, Rose and Dorothy moved in with Blanche, because they couldn’t get their own place.
Blanche was swimming in money that she would from her successful ex husband through a divorce.
Dorothy felt it was perfectly ok to jump on that wagon by bringing her mom out of the retirement community to live with them instead.
Rose has always been along for the ride, and totally endearing to have around. But those other women were no role models.
Am I wrong about this shows premise? I mean it was funny, but so was Soap (imo)
I'm about to retire and, unless I get a couple of roomies, will be scratching to make ends meet if I don't open up other income sources (which I'm also working on). I'm only going to take top-tier roommates, because I'm allergic to drama.
Having some good roommates would also make it more feasible to travel cross country to visit family occasionally.
I go to St. Olaf Catholic Church in Minneapolis. One Holy Thursday (one of the holiest nights) I still had my “I gotta be the first one out of the church, itis”. So I sneaked out the side door. I set off the alarms. I was horrified. I went back into the church. It was pandemonium: gray haired ladies with walkers screaming, men pacing back and forth, people politely shoving. Then the outside doors burst open and the police come charging in with guns pointed. It was horrible.
I wrote a letter to the good Father, confessing what I had done. My mom said that he should send me back to a horrible church. Father agreed that I did cause “quite a commotion”, but he let me stay. I no longer need to be the first person out the door.