Thanks for the tips. To answer, why I stay way out in the sticks. I, recently, came out of an"assisted living facility". There are two reason why. First was it would have drained me completely of every cent I had. Then I would have been dumped "someplace". When I was recovering from my hospitalizing, I was in several "nursing homes", which accepted what my insurance was willing to pay. I do have a chronic spinal problem, and in one of these places it took 4 hours for me to get a pain pill. The second reason I left the 'ass. liv. fac.', was that while I had tablemates and friends, it was not uncommon for us to eat in total silence- we had nothing more to say to each other. We all heard the same tired stories we all told. The place was clean, neat, and respectful of us. But everybody in the place is losing, day by day, physical abilities. It was little things, like you couldn't have your old warm cozy bed: you, now, had to have a hospital bed. And frankly, it's the friends, who will never show up for breakfast.
My Home is paid for, and while I can, I will live there. But it does come with the problem of being isolated in a rural setting.
