Resident Stories

Two full lives before Quail Ridge  Ross and Pam Miller had already lived a few lives before they arrived at Quail Ridge Country Club.  Pam began her working life as a teacher in England before becoming a librarian. Ross served for 25 years as a regular army officer in the New Zealand army, with postings...

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...

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...

Still working, on her own terms  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...

A drive that turned into a decision 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...