Independence Village of Johnson City

Virginia

I'll be moving here as soon as something opens up. They are relatively full now. After I saw it, which was the first one I saw, I didn't even go to others because I fell in love with it. It was looking out onto the Blue Ridge Mountains. It was so beautiful. The staff and the people themselves were very friendly. When they came by, they said hello. It was not standoffish at all, so I did like that. As far as I'm concerned, the apartments were small. I come from an eight-room house. I have lived there for 60 years and I got a lot of junk, so I have to get rid of all of it. You have to rent a storage space. I did go to something called a Fifties Night with my son and daughter-in-law. It was an evening where you listen to some fifties music. I complained a little bit because my favorite songs which were at the beginning of the fifties before I went to college, they didn't do, so I requested them and they did. Everybody had a good time. People got up and danced and it was a lovely late afternoon in June. I looked at other things and they were comparable to what I had looked at in New Jersey, but New Jersey was just too far away. They had a beauty parlor within the building you could go to. The building was very new. I wasn't bowled over by what I had that night, but that's always hard when you're they're trying to feed so many people.

Pat

I went to look at this facility. The people that I dealt with were very helpful, even with things that I did not even think about asking. Everything there seemed to fit our needs. The staff was outstanding. They were having a 50s party when we went there.

Diane

It was beautiful. It was a new and very clean place. We liked it. It was a little bit at the upper end of my mom's budget, and so financially, it would not have worked for her. They have a studio, a one-bedroom, and a two-bedroom. The one-bedroom has a good layout, but the living room was extremely tiny. There was no room for a kitchen table and hardly any for living room furniture. They had a pool table, a card table, and a common area for TV. We saw the spa, an activities room, and the fitness room too. We went up to the balcony and they got a fireplace with a pretty and overlooking view. So, that was very, very nice.