I am vaguely looking at the housing market in Adelaide. In some ways it makes more sense for me to buy than rent here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I found a house where the street number is the same as my birth day, and the street name the same as my birth month. I really would love to have that as my address. It made me realise how very, very much the name and number combo sways me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Is it just me, or does the street name really, really influence where you would be happy living? Does that mean I should TRY to find something that sounds a bit yukky, because people would be less likely to want to live there?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Top of my \u201cno go\u201d list are names that sound violent or have violent associations. I am sure that Kilburn is a lovely suburb, but I just could not bring myself to say I lived there. Likewise, Military Road, or Hunter Street or Pearce Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I gifted myself a year of living within walking distance to the beach, in a very comfy house. It\u2019s my substitute for not being able to take some of my redundancy payment to travel for a month or so to work out where to next. A year of feeling like I am on holiday, even while I work hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, that and because in December\u2019s overheated rental market, I had to persuade a landlord that even though I had not seen their property and even though I had two cats, I was the best tenant. I really had to accept whatever I could get. Coming from Perth, where rents were far higher, I applied for places far more upmarket than my usual frugal, make-do budgeting style would dictate. The week I arrived, the neighbour across the street described the long queue outside during the viewing, and I realised how lucky I had been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If we had not spent the last year in rolling lockdowns, I would probably have chosen something tiny, smack-bang in the middle of the city, walking distance to the art gallery, museum, state library and so much green space. One of my selection criteria, however, was that I needed to be able to happily quarantine for a fortnight, and not be driven nutty because it was too small or surrounded by neighbours if everyone was home again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am loving the neighbourhood, and the process of working out just how much space I need and what is important in where I live. I had been in the house I built in Fremantle for 20 years, and chose the location and size to raise a family. Now, I am taking a year out to find out more about what type of house I need when I just please myself. Interesting times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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