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About this: "Certain Manhattan neighborhoods (I live in one on the Upper West Side) have already achieved NORC (“naturally occurring retirement community”) sta
by susan_hall 10y ago
About this:
"Certain Manhattan neighborhoods (I live in one on the Upper West Side) have already achieved NORC (“naturally occurring retirement community”) status."
I also live on the Upper West Side. What surprises me is that everyone my building appears to be under 40, certainly everyone is under 50. It reminds me of when I lived in Brooklyn. But I expected it in Brooklyn. I didn't expect such a youthful building on the Upper West Side.
- pavel_lishin 10y agoSame here, for the most part - but I live in a coop, and I fully expect that 90% of its residents plan on retiring either in their current apartment, or moving to a slightly cheaper place and subletting their current apartment to pay for the rent. The neighbors across from us bought two units over two decades ago, and joined them. They're a couple with two teenaged kids, and what is almost certainly a 3-bedroom apartment that will likely be paid off by the time the kids go off to college. I envy their awesome position :P