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sitting here dreaming of a holiday home. Figured I'd price up buying some land and just chucking a portable home on it. Net results the same vs buying an existing home. I cant afford either haha Tell me where you'd go and what you'd do with it if you had one.
I'd get a campervan then I could go anywhere.
Ditto for a campervan. Or maybe a van & car to tow it, then you could park the van and explore more easily
Yeah that's what I meant. You need a car. I just want a van with a shower cos I'm not visiting shower blocks.
Dapto, Dapto, Dapto, Wollongong!
Oh absolutely! But that requires a bigger car than my medium SUV haha. But I'm more thinking for something as I get older, somewhere I can have a wood fire place.
I'd get a house and land (rather than an apartment), close-ish to the city. Reno it and become a foster carer for pets π₯° one can dream
My dream is to make enough to start an animal sanctuary. One day.
All I can say about this is imagine your current house maintenance. Double it, then add some more :)
I think just ordinarily I'd like to live in Eynesbury or somewhere around there. Holiday home, deffo marble bar (or probably either Mildura or Mallacoota if it had to be vic)
I've always sort of dreamed though, that if I was really rich and could afford a lot of land I'd like to get as much as possible somewhere in Vic and set up a little animal sanctuary and build a miniature railway around it
My family had a house down at Somers on Westernport Bay many moons ago - great place to run wild as a kid as all the roads were dirt and we could ride our ponies or bikes everywhere. I miss that, and have some pity for kids nowadays that can't do that. It's mostly built up now and the roads are slowly getting tarmacked and it's pretty much a dormitory suburb for Frankston workers. Still one of the best and safest swimming beaches near Melbourne. And being next door to the HMAS Cerberus bomb testing range meant that it's never going to be sandwiched between suburbs like so much of the Port Phillip side. I love that part of the world. If it wasn't for the transport and supply difficulties I'd like to live on French Island.
Bonnie Doon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-49bXNLqer4
really? Or just for the memes? I camped their once and I gotta say, I didnt "get" it.
Nah just being silly. Not sure what your budget is or what environment you prefer but itβs definitely doable.
I'd love a place somewhere like Bright or near Wangaratta. Ideally I'd be fully remote and could spend my weekdays over there and come to the city for weekend activities (to my non existent docklands apartment lol).
Venice.
I'd live there at least 3 months the year. Just relax, read, do arty stuff, go to concerts and plays, day trips to other islands and Ravenna.
Found one.
The biggest drag is a certificate of occupancy. A manufactured house properly installed for about $80k+land will deliver that. If we're ignoring council rules, these are about $8,000. https://www.pickles.com.au/general/item/-/details/CP--08-2000-PKA-3-Tri-Axle-Refrigerated-Pantech-Trailer/663204 And a few grand more to move. I'd drop one somewhere pretty and build a house in it.