"We used to leave Brisbane on a Friday and come down here to work in the garden and do up the place," retiree Lizzie Sabo said, remembering the weekend trips that led to a life-changing move.

For Mrs Sabo and her husband Joe, what began as a part-time hobby turned into a full-blown tree change: they left Brisbane for Glen Aplin and started a bed-and-breakfast that rooted them in Queensland's Granite Belt.

"One New Year's Eve, I rang my boss just before midnight and quit," she said. "He laughed and said, 'It's about time'.

"Life's busy in a different way and it's meaningful. We don't miss the city for a second."

Their story is one of many captured in Citro's 2025 guide, released with AMP research.

The report ranks the best Australian towns and suburbs for later-life living, blending Co

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