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<blockquote data-quote="SaskiaKC" data-source="post: 2085491" data-attributes="member: 487111"><p>Good afternoon, PenguinMum. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>I have looked at some senior apartment communities near the coast. Just this past year I read about one whose tenants had to be evacuated from a hurricane. They were sent off to other senior communities, inland, several hours away, and those places aren't exactly set up to receive guests. And animals such as the KittenCat aren't provided for at all. A half-day's journey by bus to who-knows-where would be a nightmare, and without a car I would either be sent off on a bus, or sent to a local "shelter" like a gym or indoor stadium, and I remember the horror stories of what happened to people in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Evacuation is one thing if you have a car and the evacuation routes aren't back up all the way to the beach, but you have to have a place to stay inland, and hopefully a home still standing undamaged when they let you come back after the storm. </p><p></p><p>In a way I understand about the private beaches. Hotels and condo communities have to have some control over their beaches so that their paying guests will get their money's worth. When people are paying through the nose for oceanfront accommodation with beach access they want it as much like their own backyard as possible in terms of safety. And someone has to pay for beach maintenance, and to protect the dunes, and the shorebirds' and sea turtles' nests -- although many of those are destroyed on a fairly regular basis by tourists ignoring signs as well as local predators. When I was on the Florida Gulf Coast a few years ago there was public access to the beach half a block from our hotel, but no public parking. The year after that, on Hilton Head Island, on the Atlantic coast, there were wonderful public beaches, and free parking. But beach access has to be limited because of the dunes. Our condo was half a mile from the beach, but it had wonderful lagoons with alligators and turtles and water birds, as well as the loudest chorale of bullfrogs we had ever heard! </p><p></p><p>I looked at some of the senior housing in Blandford, and it's quite a way from the city center and its shops and things. It looks very nice, just not very central. And I don't meet the minimum income qualifications for a foreign resident in the UK. I would still get Social Security income, but not Medicare, so would have to pay any medical expenses out of pocket. Which is as it should be -- I'd be a resident alien, at least for the first several years! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SaskiaKC, post: 2085491, member: 487111"] Good afternoon, PenguinMum. :) I have looked at some senior apartment communities near the coast. Just this past year I read about one whose tenants had to be evacuated from a hurricane. They were sent off to other senior communities, inland, several hours away, and those places aren't exactly set up to receive guests. And animals such as the KittenCat aren't provided for at all. A half-day's journey by bus to who-knows-where would be a nightmare, and without a car I would either be sent off on a bus, or sent to a local "shelter" like a gym or indoor stadium, and I remember the horror stories of what happened to people in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Evacuation is one thing if you have a car and the evacuation routes aren't back up all the way to the beach, but you have to have a place to stay inland, and hopefully a home still standing undamaged when they let you come back after the storm. In a way I understand about the private beaches. Hotels and condo communities have to have some control over their beaches so that their paying guests will get their money's worth. When people are paying through the nose for oceanfront accommodation with beach access they want it as much like their own backyard as possible in terms of safety. And someone has to pay for beach maintenance, and to protect the dunes, and the shorebirds' and sea turtles' nests -- although many of those are destroyed on a fairly regular basis by tourists ignoring signs as well as local predators. When I was on the Florida Gulf Coast a few years ago there was public access to the beach half a block from our hotel, but no public parking. The year after that, on Hilton Head Island, on the Atlantic coast, there were wonderful public beaches, and free parking. But beach access has to be limited because of the dunes. Our condo was half a mile from the beach, but it had wonderful lagoons with alligators and turtles and water birds, as well as the loudest chorale of bullfrogs we had ever heard! I looked at some of the senior housing in Blandford, and it's quite a way from the city center and its shops and things. It looks very nice, just not very central. And I don't meet the minimum income qualifications for a foreign resident in the UK. I would still get Social Security income, but not Medicare, so would have to pay any medical expenses out of pocket. Which is as it should be -- I'd be a resident alien, at least for the first several years! :) [/QUOTE]
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