One Way to Retire With Friends
Eleven women, most of them single, live there. They tend the grounds themselves, planting gardens and laying pipe. They're trying to create what so many people seem to want in their later years: privacy and autonomy, caring and mutual support, friendship and laughs.
I recently visited The Bird's Nest to learn about the community these women have made and the solutions it offers for the problems of loneliness and affordability so many of us wish we could creatively avoid. Here's what I found.
An uncluttered life
When Robyn Yerian founded The Bird's Nest back in 2022, affordability was her main concern. Yerian — divorced, mother of two, now 70 years old — was 'out of options,' she told me. She lived and worked in Dallas and couldn't retire comfortably on what she had.
Her problem was a common one. According to the AARP, 64 percent of single, working American women ages 50 to 64 have less than $50,000 in retirement savings. (That's true for around 50 percent of men.)
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