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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m 36 and childfree and I would LOVE to live in a 55+ community.  What a wonderful way to be in a peaceful, quiet place with people with common interests.[/quote]

Someone should make a community for singles and DINKs, say ages 35 to 55. I bet there would be huge uptake. [/quote]

My other female childless friends, single and not, are clamoring for this.[/quote]

I think it would violate Fair Housing Act, since you can not discriminate against a buyer or renter based on the presence of a child. I think places like Leisure World and Laguna Woods get around it by basing the minimum criteria on age to buy (55+ which is typically beyond the child-rearing years), but perhaps there is a statutory carve-out for retirement communities.

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It's interesting because I know several families with elementary aged children and they are 50.  The husband is one couple is already 55.  The other 3 will be 55 by when their youngest kids are in middle school (7th grade).  So this notion that you are done child rearing by 55 may be pushed a bit!

One the flip side, my one cousin who had a baby at 20 is a 53 year old grandmother raising her granddaughter after her kid bailed on the job.[/quote]

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