Hi Colin
Wrong side of 60 I am afraid. Medical aid would be extremely expensive - I loved it over there, but the misses hated the place. Security was her main issue. She worked for Dulux on the technical side and more and more of her work involved going into Soweto township, which was a no no. We have had friends who have never been 'touched' in the last 20 years, but who are still on 'tender hooks' everyday wondering if today is the day. Then we had our MD of Bosch in Jhb who had his Audi taken off him at gun point so many times he lost count; the same with his home.
At Bosch we had 12 staff cars in our underground parking at one time that had all been involved in hijackings and were waiting for CID fingerprinting. (We ran a fleet of Toyota Corrollas as rep cars. If a bank robbery was being planned then they would hijack a few cars of the same model in different colours and swop the number plates around. After the job was done, we always got a phone call telling us which parking arcade the car was parked in and what the no of the plates were and where they had put the keys, but we had to pay the parking fee. Only ever got one back with damage to it, although our first finger was pointed at the rep. In the end we used to get a new set of number plates made, put them onto the car and then sent the rep on his way. The CID very really came so we didn't bother anymore.)
I am quite surprised to hear about the domestic estate you have. Spanish bars were becoming more popular years ago, and nearly every home has electric fencing, security gates, vicious dogs and armed response burglar alarms. And you then had to compete with the OC who cleaned the windows as part of her job.
This golf estate must be in a security zone for you to clean then.
Spruce