Homeowner Stories

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The View From Our Homeowners

We enjoy talking to our homeowners and finding out more about why they decided to move and what they think of their new lifestyle.

Common themes often come up, explaining why rightsizing to one of our communities was the best move they made.

"Best Move Ever"

“There’s a real sense of community. Everybody’s so nice to each other. There’s nothing I don’t like about living here. We knew we’d enjoy it, but we didn’t think it was going to be as good as this. It’s everything that we expected and more.”

Pat & Michael – homeowners

A Thriving Community

“I’ve absolutely done the right thing and probably should have done it a couple of years earlier. It’s lovely to be somewhere where things are happening. I feel as if I’ve joined life again rather than being locked away from it.”

Anne – homeowner

Peace Of Mind

“The best bits about living here are you’ve got people on hand. You can have your privacy. You can stay in your own apartment whenever you want to… but you also have the alternative. I think having that choice is such a big thing and you can have one choice one day and the other choice the next day. It’s a perfect situation.”

Bill & Joan – homeowners

Maintenance-Free Living

“We have much more time available to do the things that we want to do because we no longer have to worry about the upkeep of a big house and garden.”

Margaret – homeowner

Settled Into A New Life Quickly

“It all seemed to just work from the moment I moved in really. The staff are all so lovely and they make you feel happy. It makes life worth living, being here.”

The Best Of Both Worlds

“Many of the worries are taken off your shoulders about the wellbeing of your building, about looking after the garden. All of those things are taken care of. You still have all your own independence and your own privacy. It’s the best of both worlds – you have your own home, but you’ve got an added sense of security and you’re not alone.”

The Benefits Of Nearby Family And New Friends

“My decision to move here was a combination of wanting to be near my family, which was the most important thing, and then the second thing, which has proved almost as useful to me, is the community of friends I’ve made here. I didn’t expect that to make such a positive difference.”

A Welcome Change From Isolation

“I’m more socially active here than I have been for a long time. I’d become totally isolated and an old curmudgeon! I remember my sister saying to me when I’d only been here for two or three weeks, she said: ‘you’re a totally different person’ and my daughter said the same.”

Much More Than Just a New Home

“When you’ve had a very happy marriage and been with somebody all your life and then suddenly find yourself on your own, coming to a retirement community like this definitely helps.”

Beautiful Gardens Without The Upkeep

“I have an apartment with a lovely garden in front of it which the gardener comes and manages. We go around dead-heading, but we haven’t got that major responsibility anymore. You can back off if you don’t feel like it today, you haven’t got to do it and that’s lovely.”

Community Spirit

“It’s nice that there are all these activities going on that you can get involved with if you want to. There are just lovely things going on all the time. We have quiz nights, film nights, take-away meal nights, we bring in fish & chips.”

A Better Social Life

“I’m in the book club. We meet once a month and David, who runs the club, gets all the books from Stockport library. There’s 15 of us, so he gets 15 copies and we all read it over the month. I take mine downstairs in the front room, as I call it, and sit and read my book. It’s lovely.”