I will be moving to St. Paul's Towers in January. I chose it because I have friends there, and the climate is nicer. I had the opportunity of visiting my friend several times, so I became acquainted with the independent living at that place. The accommodations are very nice. They use a hotel-style layout. My own apartment is very nice and I get 2 meals a day. I have a street-level garden, which I will enjoy. One wall is entirely sliding windows from floor to ceiling and the view is very nice. The most important thing that's great, which I have not seen anywhere else is they have a walk-in closet. They have a library that I would feel very comfortable in because I am a reader. They have a very thought-out gym with machines that I will be able to use. They have a built-in community and they have very nice grounds. They also have a garden on the roof that you can go walking on, which is very special. The staff is very well related and friendly. Nothing is perfect in this world, so for now, I will not be giving them a perfect rating.

We went to St. Paul's Towers. They don't admit you to an assisted living situation. They assume you are independent, and then as you continue to age, when it's time that you really do need assistance to get through the day, you have to move to the so-called assisted living unit. We toured the independent living unit. It has beautiful views. It's just a lovely space. Everything about it is very well thought out, appointed, and taken care of. It seemed a little more upscale than the other place. They took us to two occupied apartments that were comparable to a studio, and they took us to two that people are currently living in, and they had agreed to let people taking a tour pop in and see their space and what they had done with it, which was pretty fancy. But you have to do it yourself, they don't appoint any furniture or anything to you, you have to bring your own. One thing that was kind of unfortunate, the day that we went to St Paul's, they were almost at the end of the lockdown because one of the residents had COVID. What places like that usually do is just bring your food to your room and you don't socialize, but they have a lot of socialization spaces when you don't have COVID. So we didn't get to see what it would be like with people milling about and having lunch together and so forth because of that COVID incident. I have heard the food is really good, and they have a very extensive menu. They have a lovely little garden. It's not very big. So, their outdoor spaces were not as big as the other place, but they were landscaped nicely. It's a tall building, and my aunt would have been on the 16th floor. So I said, what does it matter if you're not going to go outside from there? They actually do have little balconies. You can put a chair and a little side table out there and that's about it. But there's not as much outdoor space there. It's in a high rent district. It's church affiliated. The staff member was just lovely, accommodating, she spent a lot of time with us, and followed up. She's pretty special.