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A New Home, Social Events, Unitarian End-of-Year Concert
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caseopaya and I visited an estate agent and made an offer on a three-story townhouse in Willsmere, the former Kew Asylum. A few hours later we received a message from said agent that our offer had been accepted. So over the next few months we'll be making the move to our new abode, which is still being advertised on realestate.com.au.
Last week wastxxxpxx's biennial Christmas party. As with previous affairs this was a huge night; about ninety people in attendence of the usual suspects. Spent most of the night chatting to our recently published fashion historian, frou_frou, and local council environmental manager recumbenteer and our favourite artist severina_242. Last Saturday had horngirl and alchemon over for dinner; afterwards we made it down to "The King of Tonga", a delightful bar on Tennyson St.
On Sunday attended the end of year concert at the local Unitarian Church. As is often the case at such events Therese Virtue's world music choir provided an exceptional contribution. Close to $1000 was raised for the Humane Society of International. As usual, I was given the task of doing a brief speech describing the organisation and the work, along with a few motivational lines; I compared mechanist approaches that considered animals as automata (Descartes, Malebranche) to utilitarian approaches (Bentham, Singer) which emphasis capacity to suffer.
caseopaya and I visited an estate agent and made an offer on a three-story townhouse in Willsmere, the former Kew Asylum. A few hours later we received a message from said agent that our offer had been accepted. So over the next few months we'll be making the move to our new abode, which is still being advertised on realestate.com.au.Last week was
txxxpxx's biennial Christmas party. As with previous affairs this was a huge night; about ninety people in attendence of the usual suspects. Spent most of the night chatting to our recently published fashion historian, frou_frou, and local council environmental manager recumbenteer and our favourite artist severina_242. Last Saturday had horngirl and alchemon over for dinner; afterwards we made it down to "The King of Tonga", a delightful bar on Tennyson St.On Sunday attended the end of year concert at the local Unitarian Church. As is often the case at such events Therese Virtue's world music choir provided an exceptional contribution. Close to $1000 was raised for the Humane Society of International. As usual, I was given the task of doing a brief speech describing the organisation and the work, along with a few motivational lines; I compared mechanist approaches that considered animals as automata (Descartes, Malebranche) to utilitarian approaches (Bentham, Singer) which emphasis capacity to suffer.
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While going along Victoria St I saw four geeky looking guys walk out of a building and along Victoria St towards Lygon St (maybe going to lunch?) and realised one of them was you.
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(We do look like a pretty geeky lot, don't we?)
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Interestingly on google maps you can follow where the line used to be quite clearly...
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mort = death gage = a measurement device ergo mortgage = a way of measuring how close you are to death. :D
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Congratulations, and I hope you find it a good place to be. We'd be very interested to know your thoughts on the complex and what it's like living up there, once you've settled in...
(The lack of public transport in that corner of the suburb is one of the things that concerns me a bit, but there're a couple of buses not too far away, and the trams as you've noted down at the Junction. And while I hope it's changing, for the moment I'm only occasionally well enough for public transport anyway, so it may turn out to be less of a consideration for me/us than I'd expect...)
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I suspect we're going to like the complex. The grounds are gorgeous and of course there's a lot of entertaining facilities as well. Not to mention the surrounds of the Yarra Bend parklands.
Plus it's an ideal place to play Call of Cthulhu.
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For three bedrooms read (a) one real bedroom, (b) one study and (c) one library/guests bedroom. :)
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I guess walking a couple of clicks every morning and evening can't hurt. Although it may be less than fun on days of extreme weather.
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I often walk the 8km between work and home but on days of extreme weather I am grateful for having a train station a few mins away :)
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I'll have to ponder further on alternative uses for the space....
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Congrats :)
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Just kidding; looks like a nice place. Has the economy had any affect on housing prices there? As you probably know, real estate values have cratered in a lot of markets in the States.
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WRT to real estate prices, yes, the economic effects were significant. 2008 saw a modest decline, but 2009 saw rises again.
cf.,
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/6416.0
The Australian economy has remained quite strong through the GFC.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/23/2779047.htm
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These are evidently important considerations when I move into a place :)
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As mentioned further up the page, a spa might be a good thing, for when you would like to soak without neighbourly company. :P
The fuzzies will be so happy!
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The fuzzies will be very happy indeed!
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We came so close to jumping on the mortgage bandwagon earlier this year, but the maths didn't thrill us (not enough for decent deposit, thereby occasioning some hefty additional fees).
Let me know if owning really is noticeably better than renting. All my calaculations seem to come down to how much that is worth :)
"Capacity to Suffer" sounds like a great band name.
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