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I find that NYC is much better to grow old than the suburbs. You have a substantial number of social services for the elderly which do not exist in the suburbs. You do not need a car to get anywhere, so if you are too old to drive, you just take a cab. You can walk to neighbors, restaurants, medical appts, or just take a cab...all of which is difficult or impossible in the suburbs (with the exception of walking to a neighbors house).
Growing old in NYC is ideal...growing old in suburbs, isolated, and if you can't drive anymore, then what? I'll take the city any day.
I find that NYC is much better to grow old than the suburbs. You have a substantial number of social services for the elderly which do not exist in the suburbs. You do not need a car to get anywhere, so if you are too old to drive, you just take a cab. You can walk to neighbors, restaurants, medical appts, or just take a cab...all of which is difficult or impossible in the suburbs (with the exception of walking to a neighbors house).
Growing old in NYC is ideal...growing old in suburbs, isolated, and if you can't drive anymore, then what? I'll take the city any day.
I will give you this Sobroguy. Urban areas are MUCH better for the elderly. Often their eyes and reaction times go before the rest of their bodies, preventing them from being safe drivers so walkability is key. In addition, the city has more to keep their minds stimulated, more people to meet, greater opportunity to be near someone in an emergency, better medical care etc.
I find that NYC is much better to grow old than the suburbs. You have a substantial number of social services for the elderly which do not exist in the suburbs. You do not need a car to get anywhere, so if you are too old to drive, you just take a cab. You can walk to neighbors, restaurants, medical appts, or just take a cab...all of which is difficult or impossible in the suburbs (with the exception of walking to a neighbors house).
Growing old in NYC is ideal...growing old in suburbs, isolated, and if you can't drive anymore, then what? I'll take the city any day.
Growing old in NYC is ideal for being mugged while walking to your roach infested chicken coop of an apartment.
I find that NYC is much better to grow old than the suburbs. You have a substantial number of social services for the elderly which do not exist in the suburbs. You do not need a car to get anywhere, so if you are too old to drive, you just take a cab. You can walk to neighbors, restaurants, medical appts, or just take a cab...all of which is difficult or impossible in the suburbs (with the exception of walking to a neighbors house).
Growing old in NYC is ideal...growing old in suburbs, isolated, and if you can't drive anymore, then what? I'll take the city any day.
You can find the same in Philly, Boston, Pittsburgh, etc.
My understanding Hipsters do not make NYC very Senior friendly thus why they feel pushed out of their homes
I find that NYC is much better to grow old than the suburbs. You have a substantial number of social services for the elderly which do not exist in the suburbs. You do not need a car to get anywhere, so if you are too old to drive, you just take a cab. You can walk to neighbors, restaurants, medical appts, or just take a cab...all of which is difficult or impossible in the suburbs (with the exception of walking to a neighbors house).
Growing old in NYC is ideal...growing old in suburbs, isolated, and if you can't drive anymore, then what? I'll take the city any day.
i will agree with this, but the only thing holding me back is the cold, ice, snow...
that is not so great for the elderly.
i hate the cold.
smh, did you read the article or just posted it because of the headline? I know you don't like me, and I don't really care, but trying to paint Portland as some gang territory just because you found an article and googled a gang page from the northwest doesn't mean the city is infested with gangs does it? (and yes, I imagine you are smart enough to know the answer to that question.)
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Seven of the eight remain unsolved, including the November killing of a 13-year-old boy, Julio Cesar Marquez, whose body was found in a Northeast Portland alley. Marquez became the city's youngest gang-involved homicide victim in at least a decade.
This year, the city logged a total of 24 homicides, down from 29 in 2010, and up from 21 in 2009, which was nearly a 40-year low. Police solved 48 percent of the killings, a low rate that shows the difficulty of cracking gang crimes.
Yep. 8 killings...sound like an infestation to me, especially seeing in 2005 there were no gang killings. And 24 homicides in a year translates to a very safe city....which I should know cause I actually lived there.
Now if you wouldn't mind to simply move on because you are kind of sounding dumb trying to attack Portland for no real reason other than not liking me...
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