What Are The Implications Of Living Among The Aging Population?

Question

The area that we plan to move into has the oldest population in London. According to one report, in the next 25 years, there will be more over 65s than under 20s living here.

We like this area because of the quiet living environment, lower crime rate, good schools. However, as people in the 30s age group, we are not sure of the next 5, 10 years living among older people. For example, does it have any effect on the house prices?

Do you have any experience? Pls share.

Answer 1

if it is good area go for it as the older ones look after their property as well as some younger ones but they tend to be home more and look out for their neighbours as we look out for our older ones and you dont want pubs clubs on your door step stick with the aging population

Answer 2

Sounds nice, if you like a quiet life. Bear in mind that older folk have relatively higher disposable incomes than younger ones, so that should mean better quality shops, for example.

House prices only matter to those who want to buy or sell. If you just want to live there, who cares about house prices.

Answer 3

This is a curious but quite rational question you raise.  But you do not specify the age demographics!  I presume you mean people over 60 years old in a particular neighborhood.

I live in a subsidized senior-citizen apartment in our USA, but as I see it, there are consequences and benefits to living among the elderly citizens.  Some older people are prejudiced against younger people because they very realistically see newer generations as being disrespectful of culture and traditions, which is true.  Older people usually are more frugal and dislike the shallow-mindedness of modern society to such things as littering, foul language, impolite impatience (i.e. rudeness), discordant modern music, lack of awareness about social surroundings, so on.

One thing you must get used to is their incessant interest in the obituaries, and the routine of people dying of old age or from illness.  You might be turned off to learn that when an old person dies, usually they lay in their apartment for days if not weeks before they are discovered, and their bodies give off a moist gas of biologically hazardous body elements that covers the walls, ceilings and everything in the apartment, as their bodies turn to liquid on the floor, which requires complete decontamination of the entire apartment and removal of the carpets!  Just one of the things about moving into an apartment in an older-age citizen sector of the city.

On the other hand, if you value and enjoy traditional culture, and, often enough, they may still like to be self-sufficient so that you will smell the most diabolically delicious odors of cooking food that is more enticing than many restaurants.... I have to put up with those great smells often enough where I live!  IT'S TORTURE!!!!!!!!  Nobody but the elderly cook like that any more!  We eat differently now!

Yes, it probably is quieter.  The elderly do not like loud noises and they PROPERLY regard home entertainment as being a private matter to not be shared with neighbors or people in the next city.  They are into more wonderful hobbies like home gardening (window gardens like mine on shelves inside of my apartment, which I learned from the elderly), they DO things more than younger people today like embroidering, jig-saw puzzle get-togethers with neighbors, they go to stores together, lots of things.  Younger people have to be entertained and excited, older people like to ENJOY things more than be excited!

They will be responsive if you respect them in their ways and if you are friendly and reciprocate in kind to their way of seeing things.  They will reject any "modern" ways because for the most part, "modern behavior" is quite inconsiderate and selfish, which, of course, it really is!  Not that older people cannot be petty and form cliques, they can!

I suppose it all amounts to the way in which you arrange your relationship with them.