At
first, I
swithered 
over whether I was putting this thread in the
proper section,
viz:-
Living in the UK.

...
especially being
more of an "advert" for
NOT staying here
!
WHY?
Because ... when a

aboard a Mediterranean Cruise ship kept spotting a fellow passenger - an

- who, more often than not, appeared to be on her
own, the
man eventually decided to satisfy his curiosity by [tactfully] asking her
outright, the reason she was always
alone ... the elderly woman's candid response
shocked him.
!
www.upmoments.com/man-asks-an-old-lady-why-shes-alone-on--cruise/ ...
!
Stranger than
fiction?

... it
ISN'T really - with the
seemingly unstoppable spiralling cost of Residential Care these days.
......................

... and you had
better believe it
!