Grandparents Think! Will The Grand Kids Want To Come Visit You if you live in a 55 Plus?
Lets see which grandparents do we want to spend the summer with?
Grandparents A live in a cool community that has three pools, a lazy river, a jungle gym on every corner, lots of kids our age. A fishing pond, near the city, a movie theater a block away, pony rides!!!!
And Grandparents B live in a 55 plus community that also has a pool but it's always adult swim....and there's Bunko!!
Seriously, I have had a number of grandparents tell me lately that one of the reasons they would choose to live in a certain community is because of the amenities that would encourage their grand kids to come visit!
In North Carolina, we see a couple of types of migration, job seekers and college grads who decide to stay and raise a family and they are then followed by their parents who have retired and live a million miles away and get to see their grand babies...never! So they move here!
We took our boys (10 & 8) to Ireland in 2007 and needless to say they were spoiled at every turn. I have three sisters, two aunts who never married and my mom who while very active at eighty four probably has done all her trans continental flying. And my two boys would go back to Ireland in a New York Second, they loved it, they got ice cream for dinner, they were taken to three story toy stores and told to pick whatever they wanted. They saw castles, lighthouses, trains, horses, tree houses and had wads of cash stuffed in their pockets at every visit. They cant wait to go back!
Now I understand living in a community with a bunch of kids may not be ideal for people who are in the take it easy part of life, then again it probably has it's benefits.A little plug here if I may, I am the on-site agent at Portofino which is where these people have been coming as we are working on our new phase which has a lot of Ranch plans with downstairs masters and we have a horse barn on the property, we have a beautiful zero entry, salt water pool. We have miles and miles of trails through the woods with streams and waterfalls and a river and canoes.......and kids!
Food for thought!
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