Originally Posted by
coach belly
Originally Posted by
accountinquestion
"Retirement plan of living with your daughter
I don't understand the pre-occupation, and especially the negative connotation, with a retired couple living part of the year in their children's home(s).
Is this the typical perspective of observers who are, themselves, childless adults?
An adult living in solitude in their mother's basement may be mock-worthy, but grandparents living in the same home with their grandchildren seems like a wonderful arrangement for a loving family.
Well, it's obvious AQ hasn't been comfortable with my portraying him as just another lonely old man with no family who's addicted to gambling, who owns basically nothing, and who gets extremely envious at the drop of a hat. His uneasy feelings linger--which of course warms my heart.
And I certainly don't take issue with anyone who likes to claim "Singer lives in his daughters driveway or homes or whatever"...since my wife & I paid for them. What I suspects galls these people is the fact that they're struggling paying rent while we pay nothing. Or it could be something else? Either way, it's been fun seeing kew be bothered by this so often, and if a loner like AQ wants to continue the fun from his coffee pot residence....I like it! We spend more on gasoline than most here pay living expenses anyway, and I LOVE burning that fossil fuel.
Two of the 4 grandchildren are in college.
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