gobbyjock

oh no you definately do generalise - a lot. After all didn`t you previously call Mandurah a slum?

HelenTD

Scarborough, City Beach, Wembley Downs, Doubleview, Trigg, Karrinyup, North Beach and Carine are "overrated and overpriced" . Oh dear, where's the "green with envy" emoticon?

Kim67

I haven't been there for years. When I was a teenager a girl I worked with at the races had a flat there. We would work at the races, then go to the Overflow to see another workmates band perform, then back to Scarborough. We used to climb through a hole in her back fence and through the construction site of the hotel and onto the beach. You could hear the drag racing and the bottles smashing all night.

EvannTel

Oh those were the days!

Kim67

They were.......East Perth was a nice cheap place to stay, full of grungy art students. We'd have dinner parties at the Cemetery, take photos in the old deserted warehouses, walk over the the condemned Swan Brewery for more photos. Look at the city now - all pretty and new and boring as bat poo.

EvannTel

I know what you mean. I was a youngster about town in the late 80's and remember the brewery deserted. Northbridge was safe and fun!

northernbird

No green with envy here 'helen'

Doubleview, Trigg and Karrinyup are overrated IMO.

Kim67

Yes, it certainly was a fun city to grow up in in those days. My kids actually love Perth too and would love to go live there again (they spent eight months there in 2008). I like to go back there for six months at a time, and then leave again. If I was extremely wealthy and could afford to live where I wanted to live and get out for holidays at least a couple of times a year I'd probably go back.

HelenTD

But have you ever lived in them? They have been long-standing desirable suburbs for Perthites. Unfortunately, a lot of UK migrants can't afford to buy there or in other suburbs closer in. Some people just don't like living near the beach or the CBD and head for the hills, each to their own.

So City Beach, Wembley Downs, North Beach and Carine weren't included in your statement about "Scarborough and the suburbs around it"? On what grounds?

I don't know why keep making comments about my username, we can call ourselves what we like on here. Is your real name northernbird?

northernbird

I lived in Sorrento when I first moved over. We wanted to stay around that area when we bought. We looked at plenty in Trigg, Carine and North Beach and although we could have afforded them they did need a lot of work and my husband, god love him, isn't a DIY man. I have heard you moan constantly about lack of facilities and services where you are. So my house may only be worth $700k compared to your $1m+ but I know which suburb offers me better amenities. It is all about finding where suits you best rather than picking somewhere to be liked by others.

eddie007

BUT DARLING... You lives in a posh area innit????

karen looks down on Helen who looks down on NB and weebie looks down on everyone.. Eddie looks up to NB

TALK ABOUT THE TWO BLOODY RONNIES!!!! Was it the two ronnies? Feel more like monty bleedin python..

NB... Doesn't matter where youse lives, I still luvs yer

northernbird

But you see it isn't posh, it is one suburb away from the pikey pommy enclave of Costa del Joondy. NB loves Eddie too

Sally Redux

eddie007

OMFG HERESY ALERT.... Did you just call a northern burb a pikey pommy enclave?????

Surely those comments should be reserved for us plebs sarf of the river, beyond the pail in shockingham

northernbird

I sure did my lovely, everybody knows Joondalup is a pikey pommy enclave. I have to go and do the annual sports shoe shopping this morning, I have raided my wardrobe for my finest Everton shirt which I shall wear with some baggy shell suit bottoms. I will be class man