Do you live at Kiwanis Van Horne?
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Do you live at Kiwanis Van Horne?
Care to share your experience of the pluses and minuses of the place? Or in fact any subsidized housing in the southern Okanagan? Kiwanis has a good reputation and probably a two hundred person waiting list! That's OK, I have three years to retirement age.
Getting my wish list narrowed down. As I don't have one foot in the grave I'd rather not be in some marginal or isolated community where everybody is a geezer. I still cycle, not wheelchair it. But money is an issue. Abbott Towers has a nice location but has questionable tenants based on all the news I have read.
I saw something happen in the West End of Vancouver that might be relevant....
In the 1990s I operated a service business where I entered the homes of many apartment dwellers. There were several buildings that at the beginning were seniors only (and a small minority of genuinely disabled folk). Not 50+, or 55+ plus 60 or 65 + I am certain. Anyway, then our beloved government emptied the big mental hospital and a lot of street people got into hard drugs. Plus there was some court challenge or something. Anyway, the nature of these buildings changed - from normal old people to mental cases and drug addicts. I want to avoid such places and live in a wholesome mixed community: families, semi-geezers, immigrants, seniors, disabled. However when I hang around to see who is living at my community subsidized housing, here is what I observe: Middle Eastern immigrants (Syria, Afghanistan, Iran) with large families and old 'European' widows (80+) crocheting. I ran away in terror...
Getting my wish list narrowed down. As I don't have one foot in the grave I'd rather not be in some marginal or isolated community where everybody is a geezer. I still cycle, not wheelchair it. But money is an issue. Abbott Towers has a nice location but has questionable tenants based on all the news I have read.
I saw something happen in the West End of Vancouver that might be relevant....
In the 1990s I operated a service business where I entered the homes of many apartment dwellers. There were several buildings that at the beginning were seniors only (and a small minority of genuinely disabled folk). Not 50+, or 55+ plus 60 or 65 + I am certain. Anyway, then our beloved government emptied the big mental hospital and a lot of street people got into hard drugs. Plus there was some court challenge or something. Anyway, the nature of these buildings changed - from normal old people to mental cases and drug addicts. I want to avoid such places and live in a wholesome mixed community: families, semi-geezers, immigrants, seniors, disabled. However when I hang around to see who is living at my community subsidized housing, here is what I observe: Middle Eastern immigrants (Syria, Afghanistan, Iran) with large families and old 'European' widows (80+) crocheting. I ran away in terror...