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allegorical oracle

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17. No metal roofs?? That (and barrel tile like Mar-a-Lago) is all the property insurors want here in

Reply to piddyprints (Reply #12)

Mon Nov 28, 2022, 06:44 PM

Nov 2022

Fla. I'm with one of the few that will still permit having a shingle roof. My late husband and I designed our small home at our kitchen table. Bought land, hired a contractor who liked our design -- a cottage -- and I love it. Just wish it could be moved someplace else since the properties around me have attracted the Confederate flag crowd.

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NY Times: As Gen X and Boomers age they confront living alone (no paywall) [View all] Tomconroy Nov 2022 OP

Yup. I'm 73, relocated, living with my daughter... Joinfortmill Nov 2022 #1

That's what my mom chose Sympthsical Nov 2022 #2

I hear you. Joinfortmill Nov 2022 #5

Little pink houses for you and me Better Days Ahoy Nov 2022 #3

Love this dude! Joinfortmill Nov 2022 #7

Me, too. Just the right messages. Better Days Ahoy Nov 2022 #11

I'm 76. The year hubby died, Hurricane Irma took tavernier Nov 2022 #4

Very creative! Joinfortmill Nov 2022 #6

I'm surprised the percentage isn't higher. msfiddlestix Nov 2022 #8

Sounds like my kind of place. I live alone and spent all day, today, with one "agent" after another allegorical oracle Nov 2022 #16

Living here has been the most affordable and economically stable and secure I have ever experienced msfiddlestix Nov 2022 #18

Not building small houses is a huge problem. intheflow Nov 2022 #9

I was just about to say this. piddyprints Nov 2022 #12

No metal roofs?? That (and barrel tile like Mar-a-Lago) is all the property insurors want here in allegorical oracle Nov 2022 #17

I'm only 42, but this is something I have thought about. Victor_c3 Nov 2022 #10

What is being built, though, is massive senior living housing MineralMan Nov 2022 #13

Thanks - very interesting. HeartachesNhangovers Nov 2022 #14

I'm too old and tired and crippled to move me or anything around me. GoodRaisin Nov 2022 #15