How . . nice . . . ugh! Not my cup of tea. Husband and I are 66 and 69; live in a paid-for house on 16 acres out in the sticks in a red state. Still able to do a bit of organic gardening, cut and split our firewood, and keep as much work done as is necessary to survive. Cut and dried “collective” stuff is not for us; but to each his own.
Love it! Right behind you in age.
I must say we mirror your situation considerably as we also have a small acreage in a red state, cut our own firewood and do gardening. Deer mow our grass at night. The only man made sounds are farm machinery, rare cars and occasional gun shot.
We have what we define as freedom. If for some reason TSHTF, be it natural disaster or government disaster, we will have reasonable survivability.
I just about puked at a Florida retirement add I read where everything is in one building, restaurants, shopping, recreation, beauty salons - they boasted you never had to leave the building.
To me that’s prison, only thing missing is the guards and bars. These people are totally 100% dependent on someone else, which to me relates to this thread as I think that’s what the democrats want, for people to be 100% dependent upon them, which equates to 100% control.
Same here Twinkie. We just want to be left the hell alone in our golden years. Hub worked his arse off for years to give us a comfortable retirement and every day it seems like something or someone threatens it. We’ve lived here over 40 years and want to be carried out feet first.