re: The amount of old people I see working menial jobs these days is way too high

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If you do what you love you’ll never work a day in your life right boomers?

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That's not a Boomer thing.

Most Boomers I know are bored with "retirement" besides Millinials and Zoomers think they are too good for menial labor.

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Go cut your grandparents grass when they can’t so they won’t have to hire someone

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My grandparents have been gone for years but I cut my wife's grandmothers grass. The funny thing is she has two sons and six grandson's and all of them seem to be too busy to help her out.

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The "college town" aspect is literally its only possible appeal.

The older I get, the more I like neat college towns. Baton Rouge is not a neat one, though.

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if i ever leave new orleans i'm going to one of the nicer college towns in the virginias, tn, ga, carolinas, or maybe even new england

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in the 70s and 90s?

Or are you blaming boomers for putting their parents in homes?

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I was a kid in the 70’s and not really tuned into there being a rise in care facilities, but I’ll take your word for it, and I’m sure there are other factors not considered like life expectancy getting longer with medical advances. In any case, self absorption clearly wasn’t invented by this generation. Boomers are plagued with it as well, but let’s just say that this is a pretty recent phenomenon in all societies to have such a cavalier attitude toward our aging family members. I just think it’s really ugly to be put off to older people struggling and needing our assistance as if they just screwed around and wasted money. That’s not always the case. In many times it;s not at all the case. Many times things like inflation, or unplanned illnesses, total care, or outrageous out of pocket prescriptions are needed, or some other factor that you can’t foresee takes place. It’s life. You do your best, but when you have a generation of people who see their own family as a burden or something in the way of their own happiness in life, that’s the mark of a seriously sick society that hopefully won’t last very long, because humanity can’t take too much of it .

Bored.... I bet it's different story case by case.

Some are legit bored. Retired and probably don't have a hobby.

What's a man to do once he's bored? Go make some money so he can spoil the grandkids or take an occasional trip or 2.

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I was a kid in the 70’s and not really tuned into there being a rise in care facilities,

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It had to do with Medicaid. The act was passed in the mid 60s.

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With the passage of Medicare and Medicaid as amendments to the Social Security Act in 1965, there was more opportunity than ever for people to go into business in the nursing home industry. Medicaid paid for residential long-term care for people with low incomes.

"You had more incentive to build nursing homes because Medicaid was paying for it," says Gillick.

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For someone with fewer financial resources, you had really no choice but to go into a nursing home paid for by Medicaid, says gerontologist Keren Brown Wilson, who founded the Jessie F. Richardson Foundation to improve living conditions for vulnerable older adults in under-resourced communities.

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that was our plan but we settled on Fayetteville for proximity to grandchildren (all within driving distance)

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We plan on doing something similar. Moving to where we want to eventually retire beforehand once the last kid is out of the house in a few years.

I know they offer some classes but is it for everything? Really hate I never took a mycology class in college.

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some good places in that area, Asheville, Durham, Outer Banks maybe?

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Boone too.

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some good places in that area, Asheville, Durham, Outer Banks maybe?

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I love the Carolinas, Virginia and that general area. Some seasons and terrain with an occasional snow but not having to shovel my driveway