Nicole, I moved to a continuing care retirement community (CCRC). It's independent living -- I come and go as I please, but all the upkeep/bills are taken care of for you and there are extra services (I have garage parking for my car, weekly housekeeping, maintenance, free phone, cable TV (have to pay extra for Internet), HVAC/electric paid, etc.) so you just pay one bill a month.

What I like most about it is it's a "community"; everyone is in the same situation and they have more activities, including a zillion volunteer choices, than a commission and/or you can start your own club/activity. I can choose to eat a meal a day (my 900+ sq. ft. apartment has a modern stainless steel/granite counter, eat-in kitchen) in the dining room which is a great time to meet up with new friends/neighbors.

We have a good library and convenience store, a gift shop and "Bistro" (casual eating or take-out). I eat lunch every day in the dining room with a new friend and that helps "divide" my day (morning and afternoon/evening). My place has a "wellness center" where I meet up with my primary care doctor and get my blood tests, etc.; really hard, rolling out of bed and wandering a couple hallways to the doctor early in the morning, stopping at the Bistro on the way back for a cup of coffee :-) I don't even have to make appointments and if I need a specialist, they make that appointment for me too.

There's a gym with free personal trainer on site and scads of physical ed classes (and indoor pool with classes) and I have my own garden out front (I'm on the ground floor of the apartment building; most people live in their own "cottages" with front and back gardens) but I can get a vegetable garden in the huge plot in Spring if I want; there are buses to take one shopping and on lots of trips (I'm going to a casino trip on the 17th :-) and last fall I volunteered at the local college, mentoring sophomores who were taking a special aging class, meeting one-on-one and discussing topics they were learning about in class to help them get a better understanding of growing older :-)

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My community is non-profit and associated with the Episcopalians but not "religious" (the chapel is Episcopal, obviously, but there's an ecumenical service each Sunday too and Catholic mass twice a month, a rabbi once a month, Presbyterian, Methodist, etc. but many of the people come from the surrounding area so still go to their old churches and do things with their old friends/groups. Others moved here to be closer to children/grandchildren/other relatives so do things their family knows about in the area. I can be as busy or scheduled or relaxes as I want. A couple nights there is a cocktail hour before dinner service (one night the wine and beer is free and the other night they have free cheese and crackers and fruit enough to make a light supper of :-) and I am on a computer game sports teams so go to other people's houses to practice with wine and cheese/crackers and then we all go to dinner together once a week. I lost my "sweet 16" shuffleboard match the other night (I was seeded 3 in my league :-) so won't be going on to the championships, LOL.