Are you a Senior who lives in what's considered Poverty for your area? (60+, beach)
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I can't imagine retiring to such a costly State as Connecticut. Sure, the schools are good, and it's easy to commute to good paying jobs in NYC. But you don't need that in retirement.
No regrets as we did the best we could to save and have a house. We don't beg for anything, always pay our own way and are happy to be retired and enjoying each other. We enjoy eating out of our garden just for the fun of it and have little desire to travel. We have few health problems but keep good health insurance as we know that life changes.
the problem is what is considered poverty level of income in many area's get welfare or senior perks worth tens of thousands of dollars too so it can be comparable to much higher incomes . there is everything from medicaid health insurance to section 8 housing to utility perks , snap and freedom from rent increases that some qualify for . while incomes may be poverty level they are not actually living on that level .
yeah i know , not everyone gets stuff but the fact is it is out there in many areas . i know quite a few who live on just ss but they really ain't . they get assistance towards lots of things .
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Originally Posted by charlygal
You have more money than they do and you're living good. Why are you mad at them?
I can't imagine retiring to such a costly State as Connecticut. Sure, the schools are good, and it's easy to commute to good paying jobs in NYC. But you don't need that in retirement.
no , you don't want to retire to connecticut but people with family and roots certainly do . none of us NEED TO LIVE WHERE WE DO .
we can live in tents in a warm climate . but we all live where we do because that is where we want to live ,including you and those retirees in connecticut .
we want to retire in nyc because not only does it give of us a life time of things to do but this is where our kids and grand kids are . we want to be a part of their daily lives , not a phone call and vacation stop over . so your comment about needing to retire in ct applies to every where. no one needs to live where they do , they want to live where they do , because there is always cheaper somewhere else and the same thing can be said for just about anywhere .
We have a number of friends that live nearby who do okay on SS of $750 - 800/month. One neighboring town has a per-capita income of $8,000/year for its residents.
We do pretty well with my pension of $1600/month.
But this is the oldest state, we have the highest percentage of retirees of all the states.
I can't imagine retiring to such a costly State as Connecticut. Sure, the schools are good, and it's easy to commute to good paying jobs in NYC. But you don't need that in retirement.
When I retired we were living in Italy, and our visa expired. So we had to get back stateside. We moved back to Connecticut, as we already owned an apartment complex there. While living in Ct, we re-licensed as foster-parents and we were fostering three children in addition to our two sons. No real complaints about the public schools there. We stayed in Connecticut a couple years, but it was fairly obvious that on my pension we were eventually going to have problems living in Connecticut, so long as we still had so many children living at home. After 5 years we decided to leave Connecticut for somewhere with more retirees and a lower COL.
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