Wow, would you look at that spread. ;) It seems like everyone when forced to pick a number has a unique idea of where the "cut off is."

Count Arach, I realized when making the poll that Id idn't want to ask the question that I had already created for the thread title. Because I think our answers for "when are you elderly" would be much more easily defined. So I qualified old just as, "I would find it strange if someone called that age young."

I have a theory, and it's just a theory, that the definition of young is very narrow when young, and gets wider to older people. For instance a 17 or even 21 year old might call a 27 year old "Old." But then I hear my mom (mid 50's) referring to even early 40-somethings as "young kids." I think that our country is aging differently than it used to, as well. It's more common now to see people in their early or mid 40's with newborns, or very young children, instead of people in their late 20's or early/mid 30's which used to be more the norm.