Life in Senior Citizen Housing

A couple of moons ago, Hoang (formerly-homeless buddy or FHB), provided a brief synopsis of life in the Waialua public senior citizen housing project. He described the place as being extremely quiet. All of the residents are senior citizens except for FHB and another allegedly disable formerly-homeless guy. The residents are caring and concerned, often looking out for each other.

There are frequently available units at the project. Many of the residents move to other public senior citizen housing projects near town. Usually, the most common reason for vacancies at senior citizen housing is death. Not so at Waialua. In general, though, senior citizens are permanent residents until end of life or the need to transfer to an assisted-living facility.

All of the senior citizens at the Waialua project have apartments stuffed with furniture and various possessions acquired over a lifetime. The FHB, on the other hand, only has an air mattress and his bicycle. That's it. Otherwise, his apartment is nearly empty.

FHB rarely comes into town, usually for a medical appointment or to refill prescriptions. He also spends time outside the downtown Starbucks® to use the free wireless hotspot and download bootleg copies of mainstream flicks.

FHB sleeps ten hours per day. He spends most of his waking moments watching his library of pirated mainstream flicks. He also spends time at the Waialua public library. And, one day per week, he rides his bicycle on a three-hour journey around the North Shore for exercise.