Moving, they say, is one of life’s stressors. As we get older it doesn’t quite have the excitement that it did in our twenties and thirties. Then there’s this innocent feeling of excitement about uprooting yourself and starting over in a new living situation, now there’s more awareness of what it takes. According to PsychCentral, […]
Read More...Is Airbnb a Good Choice for Retirement Income?
Airbnb allows a friend to earn her property taxes. Right now, as I post this, I’m at an Airbnb quite close to a family wedding which I’m sharing with my siblings at a fraction of what it would cost us to stay in a motel. We had dinner together last night and my dog is […]
Read More...Cooperative of Friends—A Lively Life
It became a cooperative. Julie and friends from college had a vision of living together. And where many of us may have enjoyed conversations where we dreamed about maybe living together, these friends actually did it. In 1979, they bought fifty acres in New Hampshire. Eleven years later, they moved into the house they built […]
Read More...Her Chosen Location Made Possible with Housemates
Location, location. Nancy, 74, has the desire of her retirement. She lives in a small New England college town where she can walk to her activities, do errands on foot, and pays just $460 a month. She moved to this small town from Philadelphia, a city that had been home on and off again for […]
Read More...This House Needs People
“This house needs people” is the thought that came unbidden one day as Patricia walked through the living room of her large four-bedroom colonial with three and a half baths. She had lived there with her husband but, now widowed, she simply carried on living in her home. The Scare And then she had a […]
Read More...Benefits for Sharing Housing
There are four main benefits for sharing housing. These are broad categories. Read them and consider how each would be a benefit in your life. 1. Save money Housing costs are high. Everywhere. You can save literally thousands of dollars by sharing the cost of housing and utilities. 2. Companionship When you live alone its […]
Read More...The Timing Was Right
It was exactly a year ago that Mary Lou moved into Amy’s house. “I guess I’ve made it through the probationary period, ” says MaryLou and she laughs. Timing and Opportunity A year ago, Mary Lou has been casting about for what she was going to do about housing. For twenty-five years she had lived […]
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