Suburban intricacies

Posted on | June 24, 2005 | 2 Comments


Kangaroo Point

I’m off to see this house today. It’s my first appointment with an agent so I’m a bit nervous. I am really trying to find something that’s closer to West End or Highgate Hill, but that area is becoming really expensive. On the one hand this is because it’s so close to the city, but agents are telling me it’s also because it’s in the catchment area for one of the most desirable Brisbane schools. This means that a house like this, only about 2kms away from West End but just as close to the city, is $50-80 000 less. Does being a non-breeder have some perks after all? Or should I be looking to buy from the perspective of the person I may very well become?

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2 Responses to “Suburban intricacies”

  1. Mark Bahnisch
    June 24th, 2005 @ 2:05 pm

    The specific reason for that is that Brisbane has only one selective high school – Brisbane State High on Vulture St. It’s in the GPS (the Sports association for the posh private schools) and is generally as prestigious as going to Nudgee or Girls’ Grammar or whatever. It’s required to enrol all students who live in its immediate environs but anyone from anywhere else has to go through an interview to get in. In the past, there was an interesting mix of kids at State High, making it socially a better experience for the students than the largely upper class Anglo monocultural high schools, as a lot of Vietnamese and Greek families lived in West End. That’s no doubt changing as the area gentrifies, and prospective parents from Indooroopilly, St Lucia, Kenmore backgrounds move in. Sad. West End is only a shadow of the vibrant place it was ten years ago.

  2. trashglam
    June 25th, 2005 @ 6:08 pm

    schweetheart, how can you buy for the person you might become? real-estate agents are prodigious advocates of the most bizarre cloudy crystal ball behaviour in touting spacious accomodations and local amenity proximity. i say there’s enough propaganda currently mapping out ‘predictable futures’ for dynamoite young women which would leave us whimpering at home, redecorating (again…) and whipping up one of Donna Hay’s nifty desserts. buck the trend. find a fabulous femme frat house before you chase down the family home. i want to come and visit.

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