iainm1

I spent most of my life in the NT and after deciding that I no longer wished to remain there after retiring I started looking around Oz for the ideal place. I must admit I originally thought of North Queensland (Like Darwin) or Coastal South Australia (Like Alice but on the coast). I did check SA and all the east coast from above Townsville all the way south to Mallacouta. If it was on the coast I visited it, initially whilst on leave and then, after retirement in 2005, I spent four years searching for the ideal retirement spot.
I fell in love with the Camden Haven area when I first saw it and, after travelling as above, I decided to retire here and bought a home in 2010. My wife and I still travel frequently and have never found any place to match Laurieton. It has just about every service we require. From my home I am less than 100 metres from a doctor, dentist, library and radiology, less than 200 metres from the greatest cinema in NSW and can walk to a Hotel, a Club, supermarket, chemist and other shops.
There is no shortage of social activities, the fishing is great, the neighbors friendly, the beaches go on forever and then there is the beautiful hinterland to explore. Port Macquarie is approx. half an hours drive away if there is something you need that you can't find locally.
You will find that you get a lot of interstate visitors who keep returning, in fact two of our first visitors wound up moving here.
After seven years I am still happy that I retired to Laurieton, every day is just another day in paradise.