Resident Stories

Linda Geor is seventy-five in May and still working full-time from home, which surprises people until they meet her and realise that stopping has never been her default setting. She logs in each morning after an early walk around the lake, settles into her desk, and moves through the day with the same steadiness she...

Tony Headland still laughs when he talks about the first visit. “We came up with friends on a road trip,” he says, “We weren’t interested in or shopping for a retirement village. “We drove through the gate,” says Liz Headland. “And I said I could live here. It was pretty instant.” At the time, Auckland...

Philip and Jackie Dring had not been planning a move to Kerikeri because they had three children scattered across the country and, like many Aucklanders, had assumed they would remain where they were and orbit around family as needed. “The nice thing about living in Kerikeri,” Philip says now, “is that we decided we’d go...

Malcolm and Peggy Carlaw were not house hunting. They were driving, as they often do, heading toward the golf course and following the road more out of habit than intention when Malcolm noticed homes being built off to the side. “We thought, let’s just go and have a look,” he says. “Something to do.” They...