The fleet example is older persons who retire to the storage lockers labeled as retirement homes.
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But Grandma and Grandpa playing Wii games for hours in retirement homes across the country?
Tomorrow, presumably, the best bets will be cruise liners, retirement homes and funeral parlours.
They want not just holiday and retirement homes but a nice profit when they sell.
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While some people buy these places as retirement homes, many others buy them as vacation homes.
"These are their retirement homes and probably all their savings are in these properties, " said Mr Pirks.
They will not need jobs, but will bring their pension money with them and build retirement homes in the suburbs.
The St Edmund's Hospital site had been earmarked for redevelopment as offices and retirement homes, but it has recently been sold.
The move is seen as an attempt to curtail the number of holiday and retirement homes within the national park as well as speculative building.
"I decided, having seen a lot of older people, that many of them are shelved -- put in retirement homes to rot, " he said.
If these kept melting the way they had for six weeks, we joked, our retirement homes might be like the foul-smelling tents at Camp Gold.
Rather than settling for Florida or Arizona, with their massive infrastructure of hospitals and geriatric clinics, boomers are buying retirement homes in places like Costa Rica and Croatia.
Erickson Retirement Communities discovered that Wii games were fun and good exercise for seniors in its retirement homes, because swinging the remote simulates motions people use when playing for real.
Finally, east Europeans have fanned out across the country far more than earlier arrivals, manning Lake District retirement homes, East Anglian farms, Scottish fish-processing plants and Channel Island guest houses.
One important trend in the 1990s has been an increase in the number of students who volunteer time for community service, such as tutoring disadvantaged pupils or visiting in retirement homes.
That makes it a great time for wealthy Americans to shop for retirement or vacation homes in Europe.
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There are few affordable alternatives, such as retirement or care homes, for the elderly or others unable to live on their own.
Ms Wright described many of those who objected to the plans as "incomers who have bought or built retirement and holiday homes" in the area.
For most taxpayers the best shelters are still the mundane ones: homes, retirement accounts and stocks.
They have lost a fortune, as the value of their homes and retirement portfolios has tumbled.
Tens of millions saw the value of their homes and retirement savings plummet.
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As well as seeing their incomes fall as employers cut wages and jobs, households have also seen the value of their homes and retirement savings shrink dramatically.
The guilty, and their enablers, count on time and our need to focus on personal financial survival to squelch the calls for justice and revenge against someone, anyone, for the loss of jobs, retirement savings, and homes.
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Residents, many of them elderly and living on retirement savings, soon realized their homes were to be destroyed.
Ordinary citizens still need to buy homes, save for retirement, and keep deposits in a conservative, safe bank.
There's no doubt singles who make an effort to do financially prudent things--buying homes and opening up retirement accounts early--wind up better off than their married friends.
After all, most parents have the majority of their net worth tied up in their homes and their 401k or other retirement plans.
But this is the only concrete plan we've seen so far that aims to protect Americans on Main Street, to protect their homes, their savings, their retirement plans, to protect endangered jobs and small businesses.
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