Sunday 15 January 2012

Retirement villages: grandma's ghetto or country club? | Money | The Observer

Retirement villages: grandma's ghetto or country club? | Money | The Observer

Bob and Anne Sears look out at the walled garden from their two-bedroom cottage in a "retirement village" near Maidstone in Kent, and say: "We've never regretted moving here." Three years ago they sold their five-bedroom house in Essex and became the first people to move to Mote House, then still under construction by Audley, one of the biggest developers of retirement villages. Surrounded by 450 acres of parkland, a number of two- and three-bedroom homes have sprung up near Mote House, which dates back to George III and is now being converted into a country club for the elderly.

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