A 38-year-old Australian woman who has been living in a retirement home for a year claims moving there as a way to start over was the best decision she ever made.

After her long-term romantic relationship with her partner came to an end, the 38-year-old woman, who preferred to remain anonymous, decided it was time for a fresh start and moved out of their shared apartment in Melbourne. She spent two months living in an Airbnb, which proved costly, and when she started looking for an apartment she could actually afford, she found the places on offer weren’t very enticing. But when she visited her aunt at a retirement village and told her that she was looking for a place, the elderly woman asked her if she wanted to try an apartment that had just opened up in the village. Her relatively young age wouldn’t be a problem, the woman’s aunt said, so she decided to fill up the paperwork and give the retirement home a chance. It turned out to be the best decision she ever made.

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