Well I live in a low income senior housing project in a moderately large community and our complex is a two storey rectangular building with a lovely courtyard in the middle.
We have lovely woodlands on the outskirts.
The deer come up to the building.
And the rabbits and the groundhogs and the birds are around. So, it’s a delightful setting.
I would say it was a rural setting on the edge of the town, of course we were built.
They tell us we are built on a garbage dump, but you don't notice it.
Haha.
And the things that I really enjoy about living here are the services they have to offer.
I live on the second floor.
I can look out my window, the traffic doesn't bother me here.
We have elevator service.
We have trash service.
We have laundry service.
We have a large community room where we have a number of activities.
We have a dining room and a kitchen.
Because we do serve dinners here.
Our residents associations puts on dinners, for the residents and we frequently do invite families.
And we have an activities room where we often hold art classes, and knitting classes and other types of classes.
We have someone gave us a kiln for ceramics.
And we do occasionally hold ceramic classes here.
And we have had creative writing classes, which makes things interesting.
And then we have speakers come from the outside.
And there is a group of unis- Princeton_ I'll say Princeton because they have a group that maybe other colleges have it.
But this is a very special group of, young men who sing acappella.
And they are very much in demand.
They have the most beautiful voices.
So they come and put on a program for us.
We have church choirs coming, and we are very fortunate we have a woman who teaches the Suzuki violins.
And she has pupils ranging from high school down to, maybe three and four years old and the violins are sized according to the size of the pupil.
But they, put on a wonderful wonderful program.
And then we have a little tea afterwards and meet the parents and the students.
And its really exciting.
And then we have a couple of elementary schools nearby.
And a group of us about a year ago visited the second grade and we would go and help them with their reading.
They would read and we acted as surrogate grandparents.
And this is sort of a interesting thing to do too.
So it was really interesting the time that we went over the second graders were studying about the tribe of eskimos.
And it was, it was just sort of coincidental because I had been to Alaska and I'd met many of these eskimos and brought back some artifacts.
So I took them over to show them to the pupils.
They were very interested in it.
So, now as I say we do have other people coming in, to putting on programs for us and we do good outside.
We have special bus trips.
We go to Atlantic City.
We go to dinner theaters...
And even the university students offer dance to senior citizens. Those of us who shake a leg can go.
Hahaha.