The Distinctive Verdict On Cape Town Retirement Villages
The Post World War II ‘baby boomers’ are now heading into retirement and many Western Cape retirement villages are in consideration as an alternative to free standing retirement houses.
The retirement villages in the Cape Town area are particularly in demand and one should consider carefully why so many people are heading towards the Western Cape for their retirement, and more specifically towards the retirement villages.
Cape Town retirement is clearly a serious possibility for more and more people.
These are some of the reasons why retirement villages in Somerset West, Paarl and Durbanville are so positively rated:
- In retirement one wants to live in beautiful surroundings and Cape Town offers more than anywhere else: Table Mountain, the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, Robben Island, various Wine Routes, picturesque coastal villages nearby, Cape Town Waterfront, world class shopping centres, art galleries, movie theatres, golf courses and gyms. Retirement villages in Cape Town, like Waterkloof Lifestyle Estate in Somerset West are located where the mountains, ocean and social amenities are all close by.
- Gated retirement communities provide security and peace of mind to older people that want to relax in a risk free social environment. Retirement is a time to implement a mellow and laid back lifestyle, and one should feel completely safe where you spend lazy summer days and cozy winter nights.
- Although a person in retirement normally enjoys times shared with other mature people, it is just as important to enjoy the privacy and joys of an own home. Modern retirement villages provide just that. One can participate in the active social life at hand in retirement villages, but well planned retirement homes provide the space to live one’s life in pursuit of own hobbies, even part time work and nestling into a very personal relaxed lifestyle.
- The life expectancy of people retiring today is much longer than in previous decades and one can be thoroughly active for many years after retirement. But there may come a time when medical care will be needed. To only start considering a Cape Town retirement village at this a point means that one will have to sell a house again in order to move into a retirement village with health care facilities. Once again sales costs will need to be paid, transfer duties with the purchase of a house in a retirement village, it will take time to get to know the other people living in the retirement village and in general a price shock will await the buyer of a retirement village house as prices increase at a faster rate than other residential property.
- From a psychological point of view living in a retirement village makes sense too. Whilst one still wants to interact with vibrant manifesting life in society, you just don’t want unnecessary noise, immature impulsiveness and overgrown egos spoiling over into your retirement sanctuary. In a retirement village one will find a much wider pool of graceful human beings in an advanced phase of maturity, than generally outside on the streets of evolving life.
- In a (post)modern world people get alienated from healthy interaction with other people as there is an anxious sense of materialistic survival and a frequently nauseating feeling of ‘everything goes’. In retirement one has the time again, or for the first time, to explore the essence of soul life. Life in a retirement village provides inhabitants with a renewed sense of a more substantiated search for meaningful life. A quiet life imbedded in a community of mature people in qualitative interaction with each other as there is no more time to waste. Empathy and compassion on an advanced scale.
In the end the choice of a retirement home remains a very personal issue. One should explore the various retirement villages in Cape Town and only settle down in one of them if the ‘ah-hah!’ sense of a coming home experience can be acknowledged.
