Nevertheless, island residents are graying, with a median age of about 42 years, up from 37 in 1990, estimates Andrew V. Vorce, the senior town planner.
So far, ministers have been unwilling to say exactly how the weak will be supported – leaving some senior town hall figures to warn starkly that the poorest town halls risk going to the wall, Detroit-style.
A senior town councillor said: "It sticks in the throat of local people".
Well, there are the Smarties (senior market town retirees) – old people who retire to market towns, instead of the traditional seaside.
By L. Gourlay, E. J. Kahn, Jr., and Harold Ross The New Yorker, February 8 , 1941P. 11 A Prep-School senior in town for the weekend dropped into Brooks Brothers.
"It's very important to keep our young people and seniors in town, and rental housing makes it an option with the housing market being so expensive," said Richard Guardino, Hempstead's supervisor.
The next morning, in the south of the planet, far away from Senior's home town, but not far enough, there was a great earthquake under the ocean's surface, and the mighty water, answering the agony of the land beneath it with an agony of its own, gathered itself up into a series of waves and hurled its pain across the globe.
His signs read "I'm Mad as Hell Too, Carl!" Yet when Mr. Paladino — who has criticized gay-pride parades and vowed to take a baseball bat to Albany — wades into the crowd at senior centers or town halls, he is less Howard Beale, more Elmo.
But Senior craftily left town for an extended vacation, "and people started coming to me with questions," says Perkins.
"It's far more prosperous as a town, senior lawyers and accountants that serve South Wales and the South West are based there and the airport and sea port are far more prosperous.
Hannah Strohmeier is a high school senior in small town Kentucky, home to sweaty summers, winding back country roads, and rickety tobacco barns.
