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Posted on 09/28/2025 10:35:48 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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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.
“””””Housing doesn’t have to be high. You have to live where it is cheaper.””””””
Even for those who almost have enough money to live in the city they want to live in, they might have to do what the people they envy today, did 40 years ago, move out into what looks like the boonies today, drive long commutes, wait 40 years for things to grow around them, and then they can be the envy of the young home buyers 40 years from now.
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?
You will have to live with roomates until you die. It’s fun and you’ll be happy.
Nope. The roommate phase of life ended at about 25.
This is an Elon Musk company.
Yes, that’s her.
“This country was ruined by Franklin Delano Roooosevelt!”
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.
From;
‘Golden Girls’ for the Gals
To
‘Soylent Green’ for the men.
.
A reasonable parallel.
So sad kiddo.
Aging in place home renovations is huge business creating multiple separate living spaces.
The Golden Girls is why The Villages in Florida has the highest STD rate in the country.
“You will have to live with roommates until you die. It’s fun and you’ll be happy.”
LOL!
Love this show!
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