Cape Town Retirement Villages - An Exciting Western Cape Retirement Lifestyle
Cape Town Retirement Villages: We just can’t risk thinking about retirement in outdated ways anymore.
There is a huge stream of baby boomers heading into retirement and they look different from the old timers before them!
Mature adults nowadays have a much longer lifespan than their parents did and they do expect (and demand!) that their retirement lifestyle should reflect this vibrant energy flowing into a river of experiences.
Mentally and physically they are ready to capture the phrase, “Why should youth be wasted on the young?”. And boy, just take time to watch them putting the young ones who have a diluted sense of life to shame!
Gone are the dinosaurs and old age homes. Yes, Elvis has left the building and is living in a fine retirement village somewhere in the greater Cape Town area. Eat your heart out Mick Jagger. Stop that silly shimmering Madonna.
So, what are we talking about when we contemplate retirement or living in a retirement village in Cape Town?
For a start, think about the young boy or girl that you were a decade or two ago… school, democratically decided, wasn’t so nice, but a holiday in Cape Town near the beaches of Gordons Bay,The Strand and Blouberg Strand offered angelic options.
Or perhaps slightly more profane than that, but surely days of golden beaches, lazy lingering through sun drenched afternoons, great food in laid back restaurants, vibrant music and hordes of movies and theatres were vividly visualized.
Amongst some other activities not mentioned in front of children and degenerating prunes.
Cape Town hasn’t changed! It still offers all this and much more for people retiring in Cape Town and the Western Province of South Africa!
Nowadays one has the choice to live in a retirement village in Somerset West like Waterkloof Estate that will offer a connoisseur’s experience of well designed and architecturally pleasing homes.
Or Honeydew Retirement Village in Paarl, to be near the greatest wine farms on this planet.
Alternatively one can retire to a free standing home anywhere on the coastline, while in the meantime securing a retirement village property - should the decision be made later in life to move into one of the highly demanded retirement villages of the Western Cape.
Just think about this for a moment. Would you like to wake up in retirement and have the choice to visit great art galleries, a conglomerate of shopping centres, art nouveau movie theatres, have a work-out in a gym or visit an avalanche of book shops?
Not bad hey? But you can do all of that in Germiston, Berlin or Pietermaritzburg too. Cape Town offers this, but much more…
There is this laid back social culture creeping through colourful street life, nestled up against Table Mountain and rolling down to the beaches of Camps Bay and Clifton.
The smells, the sounds, the dance of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean culminating at Cape Point, that cannot be offered by a retirement lifestyle far from the ocean and the mesmerizing blue mountains of the Western Cape.
It will be extremely difficult to get bored whilst living along whales, swelling grape vineyards, experiencing some of the wittiest specimens of the human race and watching the growing tide of national and international people flooding Cape Town for a great retirement lifestyle.
But should it happen that one needs more than this, the Great Karoo with its ancient history or the spectacular Garden Route will be but a day trip away.
A flight further the Kruger National Game Park will always be whispering a welcome to humans searching for their roots.
Once can embellish about so much more, but the start of it all will be to stake your claim in a Cape Town retirement lifestyle and/or a retirement village. The rest will follow.
See you soon Mick. We do have top notch medical facilities and security too, should you over indulge. Even, dare we say - frail care.
Ask Elvis in his Cape Town retirement village about this - but later. He is busy watching the whaling giants surfacing in False bay. And then he will be rocking up to Robben Island.
No kidding!
Wim van der Walt
