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Serendipity keeps the

Stevens close to home

After visiting her sister’s home at Halcyon Greens, Gillian Stevens Gillian said she and Alan were looking forward to the social
fell in love with the idea of making the move to a luxury lifestyle aspect of community living.
community.
“We live in a lovely cul-de-sac here in Aspley and we have lovely
The only problem for her and husband Alan was the community’s neighbours but they are busy with their families and I think we
Gold Coast location. could drop dead and nobody would miss us,” she laughed.

“A lot of these communities are built outside of the “We’re looking forward to being around people in
city because you need so much land and we’ve “I saw what my our age group and who are in a similar position
always lived on the northside of Brisbane to us and a big thing we liked is the fact that
and we didn’t want to move away from the sister has and the the homes have lovely patios, which allow
region,” Gillian said. quality of Halcyon for you to chat and connect with your
Communities so it neighbours.”
“I’m also not a very confident highway was serendipitous the
driver, so as much as Halcyon Greens is a Gillian said she has witnessed firsthand
beautiful community, I couldn’t see myself way it happened. I how life-changing moving to Halcyon
living there because I would have to drive feel like we’ve gone Communities had been for her younger sister
on the M1 to get back to the northside when full-circle.” Julie.
I wanted to visit.”
“Julie has taken up art again and now runs the
The Aspley couple then heard about another over 50s community’s art class,” she said. “She’s also told me of a
community at Burpengary East, a suburb just 10 minutes north friend of hers who has had his health improve dramatically since
of them, and put a deposit down on a home. he moved in as he is more active and connected.”

“We were never really 100 per cent happy with what the other The couple was also keen to make the move to a lifestyle while
company was offering,” she said. “And then one day we went they were still active and mobile enough to enjoy it.
along to a coffee morning and a lady told me that Halcyon
Communities were building one in the area.” “We wanted to be the ones who made the decision to move,” she
said. “Not our daughters or someone else in the family.”
“I saw what my sister has and the quality of Halcyon Communities
so it was serendipitous the way it happened. I feel like we’ve
gone full-circle.”
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