I have been having this conversation with my parents.
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I have been having this conversation with my parents. It has not been fun. My Dad is adamant that he will only give up driving when he's dead and, where they live, there's no real option but to drive. Their city doesn't have public transit, the distances to anything like groceries, &c. are already too far for them to walk. It's drive or be trapped in the house.
We may soon have 70 million boomers too old to drive, too car-dependent to stop.
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I have been having this conversation with my parents. It has not been fun. My Dad is adamant that he will only give up driving when he's dead and, where they live, there's no real option but to drive. Their city doesn't have public transit, the distances to anything like groceries, &c. are already too far for them to walk. It's drive or be trapped in the house.
We may soon have 70 million boomers too old to drive, too car-dependent to stop.
https://lloydalter.substack.com/p/we-may-soon-have-70-million-boomers@integral_toast
My parents were very realistic and proactive about their shifting abilities, moving to spaces where transit was good and services were available. My dad kept his car until his death at 97, but he found younger people to drive it for him when he needed to get things. I'm trying to do the same, living right on Whyte, where all essential services are within a kilometre of my place. I love my car, a 2003 Matrix, but I've said for a long time that it's my final car. -
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My parents were very realistic and proactive about their shifting abilities, moving to spaces where transit was good and services were available. My dad kept his car until his death at 97, but he found younger people to drive it for him when he needed to get things. I'm trying to do the same, living right on Whyte, where all essential services are within a kilometre of my place. I love my car, a 2003 Matrix, but I've said for a long time that it's my final car.@EllenInEdmonton my Mom has commented that I live in the kind of place they should have moved to: walkable neighbourhood, a block from the LRT and other transit, my place has an elevator so there's no need to ever do stairs. But they just can't imagine not having a big house and yard, even as they age out of being able to maintain one
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@EllenInEdmonton my Mom has commented that I live in the kind of place they should have moved to: walkable neighbourhood, a block from the LRT and other transit, my place has an elevator so there's no need to ever do stairs. But they just can't imagine not having a big house and yard, even as they age out of being able to maintain one
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It's a paradox, because maintaining a huge house and yard keeps many seniors young, but also becomes an excessive burden as they age.
