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Originally Posted by Papa_lecki
Not our experience. We bought re-sale, are youngest in the neighboorhood by 10 to 15 years, and made great friends with our neighbors.
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When we bought in the Historic section over 4 years ago we were the youngest in our neighborhood. We're not anymore, because a house sold early last year to someone who is younger than we are now.
When you're looking for people around your age - and you're already 50, and you're moving to a 55+ senior community, then you're going to need to look for people between 55-65. Those are the "young folks" in the community. The 50-year-old single male is an outlier.
In the Historic area, all the people who bought in the late 1970's when THEY were 55, are now either a) close to 100 years old, b) living in assisted living/memory care/a "home", or c) dead. They've been replaced by people who were 55-65 back in the early 2000s. THOSE people are now 75-85 years old, and still going strong for the most part, but some are either b, or c. The ones who are c - their homes are now occupied by people who moved in within the past 10 years, and are around 65 years old, give or take - probably not b, and probably not c.
There's a lot of younger people moving in to the Historic area because EVERYONE eventually dies, and their homes become occupied by the next batch of 55+ homebuyers, usually coming in at the younger side of retirement.