Rejuvenating South African Retirement Villages On The Cape Town Coastline
Why would people on the road to retirement prefer to consider South African retirement villages in Cape Town on the Western coast, or the spectacular over 55 communities on the Southern Cape coastline?
Well, for a start one could ask the reciprocal question, where do people go for their holidays? They go where they can be near the ocean where swimming, walking and a relaxing lifestyle come naturally to all the senses. Why should they then not consider retiring somewhere along that same coastline at places like Gordons Bay and Stil Bay? Why not, indeed, when the retirement villages in South Africa offer so much in terms of active senior living?
What do people want when they choose a retirement village in Cape Town, South Africa? They want it to be near places that provide joy to their hearts, they want to be secure, to have sporting facilities like a gym, bowling greens and a swimming pool in the grounds. They want to have the surety of mind that health care facilities are top notch and that fully functioning hospitals are nearby.
There are quite a few Western Cape retirement villages that provide just that, both for South African residents and overseas visitors drawn to stay in this country. Summervale Lifestyle and Retirement Village in Gordons Bay, for one, comes to mind. One can enjoy an independent lifestyle in this secure village, and you can be on the beach, golf course or a variety of shopping centers within 10 minutes. World renowned hospitals are around, apart from the frail care facility that form part of the fully functioning retirement village.
But it is really all about the coastline. Retired people are relaxed and want to experience the exuberance that free days, weeks and years allow them. They have time to explore the quaint little towns on the Western Cape coastline whilst looking out for the whales that frequent the warm waters of the Indian Ocean for a few months every year. One can often find these beautiful creatures just outside the harbour area in Gordons Bay and many people park their cars along the mountainside and sit quietly waiting for the giants to surface. Imagine living in a retirement village in South Africa, just a few minutes from this magnificence.
It wasn’t long before people with time on their hands, many of them retired people, started to follow in the wake of these amazing animals from Gordons Bay to Betty’s Bay, and then to Hermanus. And sometimes they pack their bags and follow them to Stil Bay (if they are not already retired in that gem of a town) and on a contrarian journey towards False Bay in the Cape Town area.
There are so many cozy coffee shops and restaurants to fuel up at along the coastline and one can at any time just decide to turn inland to explore the beauty of Stellenbosch, Paarl, Swellendam, the Klein Karoo and the vastness of the Great Karoo.
And that is exactly the problem, that terrible feeling that you should have retired earlier in order to explore the unending beauty that a Cape Town retirement village lifestyle provides the young at heart in South Africa.
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