Posted on 11/19/2012 11:20:58 AM PST by hope_dies_last
A generation of Americans who embraced communal living in the 1960s is again considering that concept and other ways to coexist as they near retirement.
This time, they’ve traded peace signs for dollar signs.
“By force of sheer volume, the (baby boomers) who in 1968 thought they would change the world by 2028 actually will,” said Andrew Carle, founding director of the Program in Senior Housing Administration at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.
Over the next three decades, one in five U.S. citizens will turn 65 or older, Carle said. They’ll control more than half of the discretionary income, influencing entertainment, travel, food, retail, technology and housing.
Even now, seniors are redefining their living arrangements through cohousing communities, cooperative households and niche communities, experts said.
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...and yinz all thought you said goodbye to the Commune a year and a half after Woodstock...
Your husband is doing leaves today, and I am moving snow. You guys spend an afternoon for a winters firewood, we spend several days to get trees and split 8 chords. This is not a complaint, we enjoy the outdoor exercise and the freedom of the woods.
We’re on our 27th year here; house was new when we moved out here, but is old and sort of shabby looking now. We aren’t used to having things all cut and dried and in the “right” zip code.
Everything in one building, eh? Prison about describes it. We’ve never thought we could tolerate going on a cruise for that reason; sort of claustrophobic to me and STUCK going around and round in the middle of a vast ocean on a relatively small boat. Urk!
We lived in the big city and the kids started coming along and Hub said we’re not raising them here and to the country we came. Never regretted it. We ain’t got no palace and only and acre and a half but it may as well be in Beverly Hills....it’s ours, our kids were raised here and it’s heaven on earth to us.:)
The scumbag socialists truly wish to steal our liberties. The #s must be crushed.
I know what you mean. It doesn’t seem like we’ve been here almost 27 yrs. - When we lived in the city all those years ago, we lived in a subdivision that backed up to a major highway. We had someone actually break into the back door of the basement; and only the barking of our dog alerted us. Our car was in the driveway; and our dog was barking, so they were bold as brass. It was a horrible feeling. Now, here, husband has signs in the driveway (which is a quarter mile long) to the effect that “trespassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again” and “Keep Out”. I guess he got paranoid at some point along the way.
LOL......I love the part about the trespassers. We’re in a relatively safe place where the only excitement is when an ambulance drives through the neighborhood.....lotta old people out here. LOL
“Over the next three decades, one in five U.S. citizens will turn 65 or older, Carle said. They’ll control more than half of the discretionary income, influencing entertainment, travel, food, retail, technology and housing. “
If anyone thinks that the “new demographic” that re-elected Obama will sand for a bunch of old white people controlling the lions share of discretionary income, they are crazy.
Whites will be lucky if they are allowed to live if you believe the demographic extrapolations that the Democrats are peddling (and the GOP pundit class is trying to embrace). Whitey won’t be allowed to enjoy a comfy retirement, commune or no commune within a majority minority country.
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