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Originally Posted by Gpsma
No one in the Villages is “poor”. Its disgusting when people complain about reasonable increases and use the excuse..” why do they do this to seniors”
Yep the seniors that eat out often, play golf, drive nice cars..
Boo hoo...cant afford it here...try another place
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The first year we moved here we were absolutely poor. Living on 1 person's modest pension, neither of us old enough for social security yet, qualified for almost 100% subsidy for health care (we were $4000 too "rich" to qualify for medicaid), $50k in debt for the purchase of the house.
My car is a 2010 cheapo piece of tin that I bought...in 2010. Hubby's car is a 2015 that he bought in 2015 when he was still working. We eat a lot of take-out because I'm very good at playing the rewards program, coupon-saving, and survey-points-for-gift-cards game.
Even now that we have one social security check added, we can't afford a new car for me. Our golf carts were used - it was all covered by the "profit" from selling our house up north. We don't have lovely-padded 401K or IRA or investment accounts, but we are thankfully no longer wondering how to cover the cost of repairs on the house if something breaks.
We are living in a double-wide instead of a site-built, because we couldn't afford a site-built and remaining in our state up north was no longer an option.
We're living better down here than we were up north, for less. But when costs go up, we definitely feel it.