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Forum: Australia
Jul 2nd 2017, 7:31 am
Replies: 126
Views: 11,271
Posted By GarryP

Re: Questions, questions - Melbourne

Nope, it's not.

Going with the grain is to say that Sunshine is a dive and the properties next to worthless. Going with the grain is to say Pharhan is a valuable inner east suburb that's well...
Forum: Australia
Jul 1st 2017, 4:25 am
Replies: 126
Views: 11,271
Posted By GarryP

Re: Questions, questions - Melbourne

If you are looking for investment, you are looking for capital gain - so if you go with the grain the value is already priced in. Find something up and coming and undervalued and you can clean up.
...
Forum: Australia
Jul 1st 2017, 12:46 am
Replies: 126
Views: 11,271
Posted By GarryP

Re: Questions, questions - Melbourne

Yeah, I've long thought that the smartest move would be to concentrate on real high speed connections into the city and thus satellite towns. Personal favourite is to combine the satellite town with...
Forum: Australia
Jun 30th 2017, 12:47 pm
Replies: 126
Views: 11,271
Posted By GarryP

Re: Questions, questions - Melbourne

That's never true.
Forum: Australia
Jun 30th 2017, 12:46 pm
Replies: 126
Views: 11,271
Posted By GarryP

Re: Questions, questions - Melbourne

40 mins

Provided you leave at the right time and take the right route. Actually the westgate isn't a major issue, it's getting onto the freeway, which is why the 4 junctions help.

And it could...
Forum: Australia
Jun 30th 2017, 9:38 am
Replies: 126
Views: 11,271
Posted By GarryP

Re: Questions, questions - Melbourne

Well OP has 4 kids, so space it at a premium.


Commuting to the city is hell from anywhere, cafe, bar, restaurants have been getting better as new places open, it's not particularly drier/dustier...
Forum: Australia
Jun 29th 2017, 7:29 am
Replies: 126
Views: 11,271
Posted By GarryP

Re: Questions, questions - Melbourne

OK, well put it like this - I've never seen it.

All you tend to see are the usual groups of 4-5 teens wandering around looking sullen and as if the world is out to get them. There's a bit round a...
Forum: Australia
Jun 29th 2017, 5:34 am
Replies: 126
Views: 11,271
Posted By GarryP

Re: Questions, questions - Melbourne

Hmm, well you see some in the town centre after school kicks out (no surprise there) and they are the usual schoolkid-in-uniform-but-doesnt-want-to-be look. Don't think I have ever seen one smoke,...
Forum: Australia
Jun 29th 2017, 5:29 am
Replies: 126
Views: 11,271
Posted By GarryP

Re: Questions, questions - Melbourne

In general they are new, which means they don't have the long track record of those in the east. They also have fair number of immigrants kids, which is both good (chinese tiger mums) and bad...
Forum: Australia
Jun 29th 2017, 4:52 am
Replies: 126
Views: 11,271
Posted By GarryP

Re: Questions, questions - Melbourne

Well, for a start those are further out than the 'inner east' we were talking about. And they are more expensive ($680 & $630), and. taking the second one, is about 120m2 (tiny), a 3 bed, which is...
Forum: Australia
Jun 29th 2017, 3:05 am
Replies: 126
Views: 11,271
Posted By GarryP

Re: Questions, questions - Melbourne

Err, that's what I said at the beginning. Point is, the reality and the prejudice have a significant gap - which gives people like the OP who aren't infected with it the chance to get better for...
Forum: Australia
Jun 29th 2017, 12:06 am
Replies: 126
Views: 11,271
Posted By GarryP

Re: Questions, questions - Melbourne

Well, that's a bit of a movement, although I think you missed the point quite a bit. 'Noble savage' overlaps with, but isn't cultural appropriation. Cultural appropriation doesn't explain the stolen...
Forum: Australia
Jun 28th 2017, 6:28 am
Replies: 126
Views: 11,271
Posted By GarryP

Re: Questions, questions - Melbourne

As I said, basically most of it.

And you are living in a fantasy land if you think somewhere like Prahran is a nicer environment (tis a hole in my estimation). You are right about 2 completely...
Forum: Australia
Jun 28th 2017, 3:00 am
Replies: 126
Views: 11,271
Posted By GarryP

Re: Questions, questions - Melbourne

Well, yes it is relevant, and because it explains why I have no time for it.

The 'noble savage' was a trope that arose originally from religion - suggesting that various 'aboriginal' types were...
Forum: Australia
Jun 27th 2017, 11:44 am
Replies: 126
Views: 11,271
Posted By GarryP

Re: Questions, questions - Melbourne

If I replied to that one, I'd sound like beoz. :sneaky:
Forum: Australia
Jun 27th 2017, 8:54 am
Replies: 126
Views: 11,271
Posted By GarryP

Re: Questions, questions - Melbourne

I have a pet peeve about people who appropriate things aboriginal in order to say "look, we've got culture too". It's all too 'noble savage' for my liking.

Practically australian culture started...
Forum: Australia
Jun 27th 2017, 8:50 am
Replies: 126
Views: 11,271
Posted By GarryP

Re: Questions, questions - Melbourne

OK, I'm not going to get in to the usual back and forth. Suffice to say I don't recognise most of that, and several bits are hopelessly out of date.
Forum: Australia
Jun 27th 2017, 2:05 am
Replies: 126
Views: 11,271
Posted By GarryP

Re: Questions, questions - Melbourne

OK, point to something you do/use during your usual life that connects in any serious way with pre-1788.

It's pretty hard to point to anything pre-1900.
Forum: Australia
Jun 27th 2017, 12:11 am
Replies: 126
Views: 11,271
Posted By GarryP

Re: Questions, questions - Melbourne

Another handy hint, if you are talking about history / culture - talking about something totally disconnected from the mainstream populous really doesn't change the price of fish.
Forum: Australia
Jun 26th 2017, 11:30 pm
Replies: 126
Views: 11,271
Posted By GarryP

Re: Questions, questions - Melbourne

I think you could do with actually visiting such a location sometime, your perception is pretty far out.

For a start, the idea of a quarter acre block is pretty far in the past, they tend to put...
Forum: Australia
Jun 26th 2017, 11:20 pm
Replies: 126
Views: 11,271
Posted By GarryP

Re: Questions, questions - Melbourne

All of which is nice and pretty and very right on - and has nothing to do with the relative merits of west or east of Melbourne.
Forum: Australia
Jun 26th 2017, 9:08 am
Replies: 126
Views: 11,271
Posted By GarryP

Re: Questions, questions - Melbourne

It's australia. Realistically, it has no history etc.

One of the things I noticed coming here was how there was a huge continent of a country, but they crowded together in what would be...
Forum: Australia
Jun 26th 2017, 3:09 am
Replies: 126
Views: 11,271
Posted By GarryP

Re: Questions, questions - Melbourne

Well, if you want a walk there are quite a few routes created as they put the estates together, you can kind of chain parks and 'conservation areas' (and to the OP, the parks usually have...
Forum: Australia
Jun 26th 2017, 2:06 am
Replies: 126
Views: 11,271
Posted By GarryP

Re: Questions, questions - Melbourne

That's not atypical - it was pretty much picked at random.

Here you go, here's another one nearby, overlooking the water, 5 bed, similar price.
...
Forum: Australia
Jun 25th 2017, 11:38 pm
Replies: 126
Views: 11,271
Posted By GarryP

Re: Questions, questions - Melbourne

www.realestate.com.au (http://www.realestate.com.au)

Generally houses in the suburbs are 4 bed, but sometimes they aren't spacious. Some people will push you to the eastern suburbs, but I think...
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