WHEN do you ever see a single woman looking to choose her home in an estate agent’s window somewhere nice? It’s usually a couple based on the man’s income.

Mortgages are so difficult.

Isn’t this why our towns are in a mess, ie renting?

Renting, and the cost of living, living in a technological society or downsizing or home improvement are the big bugbears for women over 60. I need toilets upstairs and downstairs now, so it’s upsizing for me. Where is the money supposed to come from? What is our national income from tourism? It should be used for improving where pensioners can live here.

RUTH A. OLDEN, Hythe.