"I'm hungreeeeee, I'm thiiiiiirsty" all day in the car.
We started out seeing a place in Highgate Hill and it was nice, maybe a bit small - but the location is great - near the tourist areas and only one city cat stop away from Cyp's work. He seems reluctant to apply for it though - I keep pestering him and he keeps showing me other places. The current tenant was also really nice - has a 15 month old boy - she loved Rowan. She actually warned me off it a bit by saying that it really needs air conditioning. She also wondered how Rowan copes with mozzies (mosquitos - didn't I tell you that they shorten everything here? - swimsuits are cozies as in swim costumes). I said Rowan was ok with mozzies but Cyp isn't. Maybe that's why he's not keen to apply.
We next went back to Aldi for our Christmas tree cord. Yup - there is was sitting there looking all lonely in the empty shelf where the trees used to be. Must say our fibre optic tree now looks great. Thanks Suzy for first telling us about these! No decoration required and the bubs sit around it staring fixated at the little glowing lights. Another $20 well spent.
We then went to New Farm to look at a more expensive place as Cyp thinks we should see houses at every level. I tried to explain to him that I'm not rational and would look at the nice one and think - ok, let's get it forgetting that we are only looking at it to get an idea of what more expensive looks like. Yup - I now have a different perspective. I want more expensive. It wasn't my style (modern) but it was in a pretty great location and so new and clean and it had a pool.
We then madly dashed to Taringa to look at an open house near the Uni (University) but it was at the low end of the price scale and I'm no longer interested.
By the way - when I say open houses, I mean open houses for rental units. There is a huge rental market here (1000 people move here a week) and lots of everyday people like you and me invest in houses and then rent them out. We have been to a number of viewings where the house is either for sale or for rent - whichever happens first. I guess if you can get $700 per week on your $700K home, that's a fairly good return. That is what we are looking at paying. It is almost tempting to buy....but we won't, that would be crazy, crazeee!
After Taringa we went to the Indooroopilly mall (Indooroopilly or Indoor is a suburb near the Uni - like Taringa and Chapel Hill). Ok - this would be where I would shop if I lived in any of the burbs near the Uni. First, it took us and hour to get into the mall. Did I mention the traffic lights in Brissy (Brisbane)? They are very long. As Cyp noted, so long, that it's silly not to pull out your iphone and start texting people. Really - you need to do something while you are waiting.... forever. Then, we couldn't find parking under cover - only out in the blazing sun (ok - I'm rethinking leather). Then we entered the mall and the lighting and hordes of people immediately depressed me. So this is where everyone is during the day. Oh - it was bleak. I hated it. The thought of having to run to the mall whenever I needed something was a depressing thought indeed. I decided again that I could not live in Indoor, Chapel Hill, Taringa, or Kenmore.....
Speaking of which, our next inspection was in Kenmore. Kenmore is a little better - it is a bit further out and I would go to strip malls to shop. I can live with that (I think). The house was nice - Cyp was surprised when I told the agent I didn't like it. It was nice and it ticked all the boxes. I think the agent was also surprised - she looked a little offended. It was nice - but while driving around the burbs, I couldn't get over how quiet it was. I had flirted with the idea that I like quiet - but I think I was envisioning a 5 star resort when I thought of quiet and these were just houses. The thought of being stuck out there with Ellis and Rowan all day long and not being able to walk anywhere (cause it really is too hot and that is why you do not see anyone walking around) made me rethink the suburb thing. At least in the city I can take a ferry somewhere and go to a waterpark or a library or something. I do not want to have to drive everywhere - the lights are too long, the traffic is too bad. Ok, this is quite the ramble today.
After that we saw a huge house in Paddington - a very walkable suburb - it was on the expensive scale again. It was huge and if I get lots of people telling me that they will come visit, then maybe we would consider it. But it wasn't green and leafy around it. Plus, the mom told me that they are moving cause their kids want a pool and want to be near a park. I was like, yah - so do mine.
Ok - that's enough. we came home, Cyp went to get Ellis at daycare. I made dinner. Rowan checked out every nook and cranny of the apartment. He is quite proud of his mobility. It has opened up an entire new world to him. He comes to visit me in the kitchen - plays with a few drawers, squishes a few fingers. Then he trundles over to the deck - goes out - passersby wonder where his mother is.... Then he comes back in - tours our room, Ellis's room. So far, he hasn't tried to kill himself yet. I should probably go and see where he got to....
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