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Sydney's New Suburbia

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Chris Steins
27 August 2003 - 9:00am

Welcome to Sydney's new suburbia: Get the biggest house on the smallest block for the lowest price.

"For many people, their initial reaction on first viewing this recent evolution of the great Australian dream is one of horror. Veer off the freeway and drive around the maze of new developments crammed with McMansions... So who are the masses flocking to McMansion Land to build their four-bedroom, spiral staircase, open-plan kitchen-family-dining-lounge, multiple bathroom, study, games room, rumpus room, big-screen media room, barbecue, spa, multi-garage bigger-is-beautiful-is-better houses?"

Full Story: New suburbia: crowded land of the giants
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald, October 12, 2005
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And many of us – the majority, in fact – find ourselves living in a drive-only landscape, where we must burn gas even to reach a transit stop, if one exists.
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