[Porsche-O-Phile]

Probably true, although I've got the advantage that I'm on the left coast, they're on the other coast and my deadbeat brother is still living with them at age 33. The way it's going, he'll be their "caretaker", since I doubt he'll end up working anytime soon (he hasn't in about 4 years). Don't really know if that's an "advantage" or not. . . If it is from the point of view of having someone else out there to care for them, then I guess I'll take it.

More likely I'll end up footing the bill for a lot of their care, since I'm the only one earning anything. That sets up the "opportunity" for my sibling to embezzle a lot of my money and continue to leech for a living, only it'll be off of me AND my parents, not just him raiding their retirement and getting to live for free in their place.

Wonderful situation that is. Fortunately mom & dad have a number of good years remaining - maybe they'll grow a spine between them in the meantime and kick his sorry arse out and save me the potential aggrivation down the road of having to deal with making sure that money earmarked for parental care really goes there. . .

The other good thing is that dad has a decent pension. Those have become a thing of the past now. . .