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"Straight Up" on The Villages' radio station

CTListener said:
And again, 55+ developments ARE retirement communities. Why can't you wrap your head around that?
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While 65 may be the effective year for full Social Security, that does not mean that 65 or older is "retirement age". Many people in areas like the military, police and fire and some other government agencies can be eligible at considerably younger ages. And many people who have saved well during their work years want to retire early and do other things.

Nearly all "retirement" communities simply require at least one of a couple be over 55.
 
DavidEduardo said:
While 65 may be the effective year for full Social Security, that does not mean that 65 or older is "retirement age". Many people in areas like the military, police and fire and some other government agencies can be eligible at considerably younger ages. And many people who have saved well during their work years want to retire early and do other things.

Nearly all "retirement" communities simply require at least one of a couple be over 55.
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I believe full SS benefits don't kick in until 66 years, 3 months.

And further amplifying your point about retirement communities, I suppose it's possible that some people could move in at 55 and continue to commute to an office job until retirement -- after all, 55+ communities are generally very safe and the units in them are usually less expensive than market-rate apartments in the area -- but I have a feeling such people are a small minority, as most active 55-60-year-old couples would feel out of place and bored living among so many much older people.
 
TheBigA said:
Maybe. On the other hand, they get away from other people's noisy kids, and usually they get a discount on property tax.
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Some of those "retirement" communities are very active, with all kinds of sports, arts and other both educational and entertaining things. The older groups have their own thing and the people in the younger "senior" categories have theirs. In The Villages there is a rather amazing variety of things to do.

Unfortunately, most of those communities are based on middle-class white interests. We looked at several, and found that they were culturally not a match for us since we have a totally Hispanic cultural and social background. I would imagine many Blacks and Asians would also find most of the activities to be an imperfect fit unless they had grown up in that core cultural atmosphere those communities are based on.
 
CTListener said:
I believe full SS benefits don't kick in until 66 years, 3 months.
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Yes, you are right. They have been gradually increasing the full benefit age.
 
CTListener said:
55+ IS a retirement community. My parents, both in their 90s, lived in a 55+ community for five years. The other residents of their building ranged from about 60 to about 90. People do retire early, you know. And the musical entertainment occasionally provided in the building's dining room consisted of individuals and duos performing everything from Sinatra to Elton John. I'd imagine the Tin Pan Alley specialists will be booked less frequently as the older residents die off or move into assisted living facilities or nursing homes.
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I missed this early. "Sinatra to Elton John" is exactly what I have been listening to either on an actual radio station or online for as many years as I can remember. Except in the car, for the past five years now, Sinatra isn't there but the Rolling Stones are.
 
CTListener said:
I believe full SS benefits don't kick in until 66 years, 3 months.

And further amplifying your point about retirement communities, I suppose it's possible that some people could move in at 55 and continue to commute to an office job until retirement -- after all, 55+ communities are generally very safe and the units in them are usually less expensive than market-rate apartments in the area -- but I have a feeling such people are a small minority, as most active 55-60-year-old couples would feel out of place and bored living among so many much older people.
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SS benefits at "full" retirement, when you don't get docked for actually working, now depend on when you're born. My "full" date is later than 66+3. But max per-month benefits come your way if you can afford to wait until 70.

I've listened to WVLG on the way past on the Florida Turnpike and find it a fascinating little radio experiment, almost an oldies version of Chicago's WXRT, formatted but unformatted. Radio needs more stations with surprises. (Though almost every ad you hear is for a house for sale, clearly aimed at the ever-growing population looking for the right place.)
 
fybush said:
If you're 65 in 2020, you were born in 1955 and probably graduated from high school in 1973, two years AFTER Led Zeppelin IV came out.

And you would have been 33 when "Straight Up" was a hit.
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Guilty as charged. Not ready for the grave yet. I just enjoy a lot of different genres, part of most people's evolution. No 'get off my lawn' radio for me.
 
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