I've now resided at 15 Craigside, a retirement community, for 11 years.   I lived in an adjacent tower ( the brown one in the bac k) for 32 years, and saw my present building coming up.   A few years after it opened, one Saturday morning, I dropped by to investigate my neighbor.   They gave me a tour, and at one point mentioned that an apartment that had long been reserved and never moved into had suddenly been made available.   There are two tall towers on the sea side of 15 Craigside.  That tiny building in-between is 15 Craigside.  However, the apartment shown to me was in between them, the conformation of those buildings was such that they couldn't see my apartment.   Most important to me, I could view the Pacific Ocean. There are graveyards on the mountain side, which I can't see from my apartment.   Most determining of all, if at the beginning, there was a sign-up list to reserve an apartment, this is the one I ...

When I was born in 1940, my life expectancy was supposed to be 60.8 .  Thus, I should have died in 2001.  I just celebrated my 84th birthday.   There are several organizations that provide an annual announcement of life expectancy for countries of the world.  Here is one from the  United Nations .  Only includes countries with populations over 50,000.  Thus, Monaco at 86.37 years and San Marino at 85.71 years did not qualify. Depending on the country, women generally live around 5 to 6 years longer than men.  Ukraine is an outlier, as because of the war, women have a life expectancy of 80.20, while men are at 66.9. For the World, the life expectancy at birth is 73.17, 70.55 for men and 75.89 for women. Note that these numbers refer to how long a newborn baby will live. Life expectancy  ( m for men and w for women ).  The fourth number surprises me.  This is the life expectancy of person at the age of 80.  Thus, looks ...