Moved to Retirement Living

[Al]

After 53 years of living in our old house we are moved into Masonic Villate in Elizabethtown, PA. Unreal how much junk you can colle3ct. We are taking about 1/3 of everything we had. I actually gave a surround sound system (6 Polk Speakers to Goodwill. Our apartment is 1200 sq feet (2 bath/2 Bedrooms.

The apartment is completely redone/painted/new appliances. If anything breaks its on them. It would be hard to find a better place to live. 1400 acres. There are about 1200 residents and about the same number of people work there. They have a 500 bed 5 star health care health facility

 

[JohnnyG]

I plan on spending my last years in Sewickly Masonic Village. Congatulations on your decision!
If you have any tips, please feel free to pm me.

 

[k1xv]

Sounds like all it needs is a mausoleum down the road for long, long term occupancy.

May you live long and well. At age 78, I am slowly disposing of unused personal property I rarely or never use that others would like.

 

[doitmyself]

Somewhat ironic considering my current active outdoors lifestyle and decades of maintaining everything imaginable, it kind of sounds nice to retire without so many burdens. Just spend time doing stuff, exploring, traveling, hobbies, community service..........whatever one fancies. Just take off whenever it suits ourselves without being tied down to home ownership. While I still enjoy puttering around, fixing stuff, etc.., it's starting to not be as enjoyable. I imagine I need to find the best of both worlds - somewhat carefree living AND maintaining my enjoyment of hands-on doing things. I wonder if these communities would mind me grabbing my chainsaw on occassion and dropping a few large trees?? Early in the morning. Maybe sight-in the rifles out back before deer season?

Thanks for starting this thread. Keep us posted on your likes and dislikes.

 

[daves87rs]

Does sound nice…..

 

[SeaJay]

Retired and moved a few years ago from up North to Florida. Owned the new place a few years before that, brought some junk down in a Subie outback, maybe 4 trips. When we moved, we gave as much away as we could, put what we could fit into my outback and a Lexus SUV with the rest being hauled away by the Junk Luggers outfit.

Surprisingly, something like a third of what we brought down turned out to be unneeded and since has been discarded. Bottom line the moral of the story is that we collected way, way too much stuff over the years. Betcha there has been a lot of that going around.

 

[Al]

Week later we are settled in. What a great life.

 

[Shannow]

Week later we are settled in. What a great life.

Congratz mate.