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What are your tips for staying independent at your own home?
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Where are you living and why are you there alone? I lived in the South of France with my French husband. He died of cancer and I stayed about a year and came back to the US with my tail between my legs. The language and writing in French was an issue as was communicating with Government officials, etc. regarding the death of my husband and taxes which they though I should pay and I refused as my income was no derived in France. They dropped that, finally after a battle of sorts.
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Thank you, Older Diva!
My late husband was born in Vienna and was fortunate to escape the Holocaust. True to Austrians’ love of the mountains, he purchased a home in the Hollywood Hills West area of Los Angeles.
Having studied with an IES program in Vienna during my junior year abroad, I enjoyed improving my German fluency with him on our return visits to what he always considered his homeland.
A friend inherited a house on the French Riviera and informed that inheritance tax there was prohibitive, so congratulations for escaping French taxation!
Friends have a Bruno stairlift on the spiral stairway leading up from their garage and I’ve already received a bid from their sales lady, to be ready to get going with it as soon as my new stairs are in place.
Resilience depends on adaptation.
You GO, girl!