Posted on 01/30/2008 3:12:23 PM PST by Lorianne
how many elections in CA this year?
My mother died last year at 88. After her childhood in an orphanage and then on a small farm, she worked her way through Texas Womens University during the depression and then as a teacher for 40 years. She owned a nice house, with a husband who probably made about the same as her, had moderate investments but lived off her teachers retirement and maximum social security until her stroke and advancing Alzheimer’s at 84. Then she lived at an ALF near me. She was a liberal democrat, but I never hear her say she “should have a right” to live independently. She simply made her right to live independently, and didn’t make excuses, expecting someone else to support her “right” to live in an $800 per month area without savings.
"I worked since I was 14 years old, and this is all I have," she said, tears vying with anger in her eyes. "I had to sell. And this was supposed to be my golden years."
Oh, cry me a river.
I worked in CA since 1967 -- 41 years. I worked at good jobs and invented products that produced hundreds of manufacturing jobs, all of which stayed right in CA. My wife was born in CA and has worked all her life in CA.
When it came time to retire, we looked around carefully. As much as we loved the CA climate, it was just plain not affordable for for us to stay.
We made the best of it, and moved to Oregon, where costs are a lot lower.
Yes, we deliberately gave up the climate in order to live where we could afford to stay -- indefinitely.
There is no "right" to live in Southern California, and this lady should have been looking ahead years ago.
The problem for this poor woman is the rent control portion of the park. The owner has to raise rents on the new tenants or in the portions not rent controlled to keep up on the property.
not the only problem but the most obvious one as far as I was aware of.Trust me I think rent controlled property is a joke.
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