klaus
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Apr 21, 2009, 1:01 PM
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So you want to move to a "golf course community"?
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For years adult lifestyle communities have been created around various popular amenities, such as a golf course or marina. While it’s wonderful to live in a community, which has an on-site amenity that happens to involve one of your passions, living in such a community does have its drawbacks.
If you live in the northern latitudes and you’re in a community built around a golf course, then it might be prudent to develop an alternative passion, just in case the threat of global warming doesn’t really materialize and the ninth hole is under three feet of snow for four months of the year. It’s hard to imagine how agonizing it can be being housebound in the dead of winter within a stone’s throw of a golf course and the only thing you can do is take up cross-country skiing or show shoeing. That’s probably why so many so-called mature people head for the sunny south in order to satisfy their minimum daily requirements of [golf] greens.
The same holds true for communities that revolve around boating and water sports. When water starts to change from a liquid to a solid, then people who are avid boaters have to take up shinny or figure skating in order to enjoy that amenity. But like cross-country skiing, ice-skating poses certain risks, not the least of which are frostbite and fractures.
So you think the best bet for living in a single-amenity adult lifestyle community is still to retire down south where the climate is more conducive to outdoor activities? But those also pose a number of risks, including sunburn and heat stroke, as that temperate January weather turns into torrid dog days that are best spent lying in an air conditioned house.
Boating enthusiasts have a great time plying the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, except during hurricane season. That six-month stretch starting in June and running through November has ruined many a boating fan’s fun, as wind, waves and massive tidal surges make for rough sailing.
The truth of the matter is that it’s always prudent to have a variety of interests, as sometimes circumstances beyond one’s control tend to dictate events. If you’re an avid golfer, that’s great, but make sure you also have other interests, preferably ones that involve friends and neighbors. As a back up you can take up games like bridge, ping-pong or billiards; or join a crafts guild to make ceramic pottery and sculptures. Get involved in a book club where literary works are discussed. The more interests you develop, the better it is for your health as well as the quality of your life.
Sure, if you like boating or golfing, it makes sense to move to a community that provides you with opportunities to pursue those interests. But if golf or boating or any one thing is the only thing you’re interested in doing, then you live a pretty destitute life. It’s always best to have something else to fall back on.
Klaus Rohrich is President and Creative Director of Taylor/Rohrich Associates Inc., a marketing and advertising firm that specializes in niche marketing retirement real estate developments
http://www.maturitymarketing.com.
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