It’s not typical to find a 30-something living in a retirement village, but Alice Amayu says that every Wednesday morning when she joins her silver-haired neighbors for a game of bingo, she realizes moving there was the best decision she ever made. Alice, from Melbourne, Australia, had been living in an Airbnb while looking for an apartment. The apartments she could afford didn’t have everything she was looking for, and the ones that were a good fit were way beyond her budget. Then one weekend, she visited her aunt who lives in a retirement village. She casually mentioned that she was looking for an apartment, and her aunt responded by telling her that there was an apartment open in the retirement village. Alice didn’t see how she could get in because there was an age stipulation, but her aunt assured her that exceptions had been made in the past. While Alice desperately needed an apartment, she thought she would feel out of place in a place designed for the elderly. Nevertheless, after a lot of convincing by her aunt, Alice finally submitted an application. Six weeks later, she got a call saying she had been approved. The rent for her 2-bedroom apartment is 500 AUD ($328) a month, which is a fraction of the going rate for apartments of the same size, where a typical 2-bedroom goes for anywhere from 2,800 AUD ($1,841) to 3,200 AUD ($2,105) a month. Alice has been living in the retirement village for a little over a year now and says she couldn’t be happier. While a lot of her time had been consumed by technology, she now sits and visits with her neighbors, reads more, and engages in the activities the village provides. Living in the retirement community has shaped her worldview, and now Alice doesn’t dread getting older, having seen that it’s perfectly possible to still be happy in your old age.