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[quote=Anonymous]This is OP again. Thank you for your comments and feedback.

An over 55 community is not for us at the moment but we may consider it later in life. We were planning to retire in place but we'll have to wait and see how that goes.
We live in a small community and most of the town's amenities are a 10-minute walk away. We don't even need to drive, except to the big stores.

My husband is taking retirement this year, at the age of 63. I, on the other hand, am still working. I work as a freelance tour guide and I take tour groups all over the country. 
The majority of the people in my groups are retired seniors.
I love my job and I hope I can keep doing this for a long time to come.

I mentioned that we don't really have close friends where we live. We have a lot of friendly acquaintances. 
It's not that we haven't tried to form closer friendships with people here. We find that a lot of people are in established friendship circles and it's kind of hard to break into these circles. I regularly text a couple of women I know and I invite them to catch up over coffee or lunch, but it rarely happens. When I try and set a date for the meet up, a lot of the time I get some vague answers or even radio silence ...

I don't befriend people in the hope that they will take care of me in later life. I like the idea of having friends of all ages and a good social life, now and in years to come. My late parents had a social life and a friends circle to be jealous of. People of different generations.

The difference between us and my parents is that my parents never moved away from the town they grew up in. Their friends were people they'd known since childhood or from school, or from sports activities, or from the local community. My dad was a local businessman and my mom worked for local authorities.[/quote]

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