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Old 14-05-2019, 08:41 PM   #31
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Is it just me, or do you look at those buildings and think of dominos?

Not a fan of high rise living, love my space.

Surely the apposite development for Sandown would have been a requirement for everyone to live in autonomous motorhomes, that slowly yet constantly circuited the track, parking and pits?
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Old 14-05-2019, 09:02 PM   #32
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I'm not fussed about space, I live in boganistan on the rural fringe of Melbourne, the town next along they're building 350-400m2 property estates, who the hell wants to live in the middle of nowhere on such a tiny property?

People always roll out the noisy neighbours things in apartments but the entire estate I'm in the smallest property is 1300m2, there's 5 of us in the court with loud modified V8 cars, everyone has the worlds yappiest dogs that bark all night, there is one bogan family that throws parties with music so loud half the estate can hear it, had my new neighbours ride a dirt bike in their back yard at 3AM on one occasion.

The problem is you have a little bit of land but now you've got a decent patch of grass (weeds) to mow, garden to maintain but you still have neighbors close by who get upset when you fart outside, everyone's a nosey flog who knows your business before you even do, I've had someone in my driveway staring at my car, another knob from up the street looking through our 6x4 trailer to see what we're throwing out, had a fight over my car starting at 5AM with someone else (which is funny because his direct neighbor now daily drives a 1960s Impala thats way louder than my car)

Then there is the lack of services, the next town with decent shops is 30km down the road so you have to shop there if you want more than beer, bread and milk.

The best thing thats happened in 25 years is we got NBN 10 years after it was announced and rego is $100 cheaper than Melbourne metro

Whats the worst thing that happens in apartments? Noisy rooters, someone taking a crap at 3AM and flushing the toilet or the lift flogs out and you have to walk up 600 flights of stairs where you meet your neighbour for the first time in 30 years and you ignore each other as you walk past, you walk out the door and you become one of the other faceless 5 million people in Melbourne.
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Old 14-05-2019, 09:13 PM   #33
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Chemsex hookups (8+ hours of noisy bonking) in apartments, subwoofers, constant renos, predictable domestics, special levies, guerilla parking, no room for expansive hobbies and no tolerance of noisy ones, no thanks.
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Old 14-05-2019, 11:11 PM   #34
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i dont know how people live like it .when people tell me they just bought a new house and it sits on about 400m2 .thats about the size of 1 of my sheds.i can see my neighbors but cant hear them which i the way i like it
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Old 15-05-2019, 01:02 PM   #35
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Given the arrangements at Caulfield which is a public park partially used as a racecourse, I hope the government has done their homework as to whether it is the racing club's to sell.

Plus with the population growth, they have to live somewhere. Hopefully it is planned well - yeah right!
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Old 15-05-2019, 03:29 PM   #36
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Sad to see the great circuits disappearing of Oran, Amaroo and now Sandown.
Makes me glad I live close by Winton. Historic racing, with a car and truck show all this weekend.
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Old 15-05-2019, 04:46 PM   #37
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i dont know how people live like it .when people tell me they just bought a new house and it sits on about 400m2 .thats about the size of 1 of my sheds.i can see my neighbors but cant hear them which i the way i like it
well thats another pov, some love living remotely, others like being in the rat race that I do like having so much on tap.
All depends what piece of land you have in the rat race, I agree I can't live with a neighbor looking through my windows or hear me on the throne dropping a bomb with good sound effects but for city living I'm on a good block with neighbors just on 1 side and not so close whereas my bro, he's on acreage 1hr NW of the CBD and they love the remoteness - many of us don't lol.......
What I can't deal with is apartment block living that is going on today in surburbia, the good ol block of land we once wanted is disappearing.
Or McMansion estates where everything looks the same, boring but thats todays world.

Soz back on topic......
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Old 16-05-2019, 06:17 AM   #38
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The problem with living regional is the commute time to work, the crappy transport infrastructure and you run up the clock on your cars massively just on distance, I literally spend 20 days per year (day as in full 24 hours) sitting in my car commuting to and from work assuming it's perfect conditions and a great run.
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Well the Sandown 500 has just been approved for 2 more years.
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Is that the same as it having the full confidence of the board/selectors?
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The problem with living regional is the commute time to work, the crappy transport infrastructure and you run up the clock on your cars massively just on distance, I literally spend 20 days per year (day as in full 24 hours) sitting in my car commuting to and from work assuming it's perfect conditions and a great run.
yeah an hour each would get to some in time ,im only about 30min from cbd but my job has me travelling all over the country so dosnt matter where im based
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Hopefully the coming recession will put a delay to their plans.
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