Better Off Doesn’t Mean Better Than: Your address doesn’t make you superior—your attitude does.

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To those who feel entitled: there’s a difference between being ‘better off’ and thinking you’re ‘better than.’ Attitude matters. Regardless of whether you pay note-rate rent in USDA Section 515 Rural Rental (62+) Senior Housing or live in a million dollar home, attitude matters. You think you’re better than someone who lives at ‘Senior Meadows’ because you live on Lakeside Drive. Meanwhile, the residents at Senior Meadows who pay $860 a month (where full-market value is actually closer to $2,000) think they’re better than their subsidized neighbors, too. These same people also think they are better because they don’t receive a subsidy—fail to acknowledge they live in low-income senior housing, too. That is partially why they also love to push out the disabled—not because those people are often younger, but because they are seen as ‘worth less.’ Or perhaps even ‘entitled’ instead. After all, they can get the subsidies and often other benefits, too. And, God forbid, their disability is invisible.” ‘Out of sight, out of mind,’ does not apply.