Image via CrunchBaseby Paula SpanFor 30 years, Nancy Fairbanks and Nancy McPhaul have been part of a group of eight friends who jointly celebrate birthdays and other milestones — and hence are informally known as the Birthday Group. “We always said to each other, ‘Wouldn’t it be fun to find a living arrangement with private space for each of us and public space, when we’re quote unquote old?’” said Ms. Fairbanks, who is 70.
We were sitting in the skylit kitchen of a low-slung gray ranch house she now owns with Ms. McPhaul, 67; they’ve become Saratoga Springs’s real-life Golden Girls.
No one in that group ever exactly specified how old “old” was. But in 2005, when Ms. Fairbanks retired from the nonprofit organization she led, she decided to move from the rural outskirts into livelier Saratoga Springs itself and began looking for a house. “Who’s ready to share?” she asked the group.
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