Where do you live? What´s it like? Show and tell!

I´m not sure about anyone else, but I am fascinated by the different areas and lifestyles in this country. Do you live in a house, an apartment, on a farm, in a tent? What´s the area like?

BTW no need to show anything that may intrude on your privacy!

I live on 90 Mile Beach. A small seaside town called Seaspray.
It is in Victoria, East Gippsland to be precise.

We live in a 3 bedroom house with a gorgeous kitchen that I LOVE. (had a less than average kitchen last house) I am 800 metres from the beach.

We are about 30 mins from Sale, which is the home of the RAAF Roulettes.
Sale is a large town, it has a huge RAAF Base there and so there are a lot of RAAFies around. Sale is my home town and all my family live there.
I moved from Sale in April this year mostly coz the rental market in Sale was too expensive for me. Plus I needed a change.

The cats are very happy here, esp Fleabi, dunno why. She is just very happy here, must be the sea air.

Seaspray has ONE shop. It is a post office/general store/fish & chip/newsagents.
There is a large caravan park and in the summer months it is packed out.
There is a Surf Club, Tennis Club and as I found out last week a Bingo Club. (Not my scene) There is ONE bus a week, on Thursdays, that runs to Sale.
So Thursday is Shopping day. I do have a car, but I share it with Mum. Neither of us can afford to have a car each so we share mine. At the moment I can´t drive due to my broken elbow so Mum has it full time. But I don´t need it, plus I need the walks.

Ok pics...
My Front Verandah:


The view from my front Verandah:


Walking to the Beach 1)


Walking to the beach 2)


The Beach

I will def take some photo´s but atm I dont actually have any!
I live in Newcastle (Mt Hutton) so the city. We have a lovely 3 bed room house with plenty of room for everyone except a dog ;-(
Eventually we want to buy a large property in the Hunter Valley area about an hour away from where we are now so we can have a dog (or 4) and maybe even 2 more cats!
M&D I think this is a great idea for a thread, if anyone feels it is inapropriate they dont have to post anything here

Wow Furrypaws you have my dream house. I have always wanted to live a small beachside town in a house like yours and a white picket fence. The beach looks lovely

Actually I think there are 3 main choices here: country, city, and suburbs. Something like 85% of the population is suburban.

That´s us. We have a good little village for our suburb - there´s no more room for development; that has to go to suburbs south and west and north of us.

So it´s an older suburb, with one Woolies, a post office, a chemist, a gym, a computer shop and a vet (or two) and some takeaways (chinese, pizza, chicken but no fish ´n´ chips - they closed 4 years ago and now we have to go outside our village for that).

I have one friend in our village, but she´s a dog person. AND she joined Dogster instead of United Dogs. AND she was shocked to find that people "make buddies" with "dead dogs." Sigh.

Our little 1/3 acre is a funny diamond shape because it backs up to the railway line. It took me 3 years before I didn´t jump every time a train went by.

In the 25 years he´s lived here, Douglas has planted and planted. There are over 200 trees on this lot. Therefore, we have abundant wildlife for Piper to observe. Most of it - even the birds - are too dangerous for her to play with.

Last week she had a breakthrough with our giant dragon, The Gymp. He was sitting on the terrace wall, and Piper was climbed up the wall peeking her head at him, about a foot away. She realized that she was scared enough that she did not get any closer, and that was just his tail she was close to - not his head! So she´s understanding that dragon = interesting, but dragon = dangerous! When she was a kitten, she jumped on his back! Thank goodness for the lead, I was able to pull her right back before the dragon got alarmed.

It´s good not having Chookums here, as she was a hunter and a killer and I always was nervous she was going to eliminate an entire species (like the dragons, or the kangaroo mouse thingys) from our lot. She´d get the baby dragons, and it wasn´t until after she died that we had some middleys (adolescent, young-adult dragons) come up.

So we have the best of both worlds here. Total privacy (Doug likes to garden in the nude), but proximity so that we don´t have to drive forever to get anywhere. You would not know from looking at our garden photos - that we have neighbors on 3 sides, because of the trees & privacy fences.

I love Australia. I feel so much more free here than I did in the USA.

I live in the country. i live and work on a international horse stud,meaning the horses we breed go all over the world. im in charge of the foaling-kinda like a midwife for horses.

I have lived in town a few times (not a fan) and with my dad who is in 6000 acres.( i have 3 horses there and about 12 cows)

i have also lived for 12mths in New Jersey in the USA, Im a country gal though and could never settle in the city.
My cats are what i would call ´´car dumb´´ they are not scared of them and im so frightened they will get ran over.
We may have to move closer to the city because my husband is a mechenical engineering draftsman and theres not alot of work like that around in the country.

I live very ckose to the cebtre of Sydbey cityon on the border of Kings Cross and Darlinghurst. It´s a very cosmopiltan area.

This is the first apartment building that was home to Matilda and associates...



Across the road is an old restored building where we live now, in a "New York" style apartment. Renting in Sydney has become impossible, so I bought this one. It is tiny, but liveable!



The entrance hallway to the building, and the perfect place for Matilda and I to play chasey at night! We have to do this when no-ones around!



We are close to beautiful Hyde Park...





... and a 5 minute walk takes us down to another park on the forshore of Sydney Harbour.



We can see the landmark bridge from this spot.



And lastly, a quiet residential street nearby where I take
Matilda for walks...

I love where you live Cathie. It looks like something you would see on TV!!
Matilda´s walking garden and street looks beautiful. She must have fun there

I love where you live Cathie. It looks like something you would see on TV!!
Matilda´s walking garden and street looks beautiful. She must have fun thereThanks Mel. Yes, Matilda has a lot of fun, particularly in the street (last pic). I love Darlinghurst as a place to live. It´s great because I walk out my front door, turn a corner and I am in the centre of King´s Cross! This area is so vibrant 24 hrs a day, so it´s very safe at night if you keep to the main streets. It´s the sort of place that you could walk through wearing anything you liked, even your daggy PJs and no-one would look twice. A real diversity of people all co-exist, and there are some colourful characters around!

The area is good for me because I live on my own, but I don´t feel isolated. As I don´t have a car, this is important. The only thing that would be better than this would be living in a country town, or small property, with a decent bit of land. But you´d need to have a car for that lifestyle.

Furrypaws place looks fantastic! So cute with the picket fence and the beach close by! The only thing better than this, I think, would be living in the country, in a town or on a small property. That would be heaven! Matilda and Kitten could venture outside in that sort of environment.

Can Yanks look at this? Can anyone read about Aussies in this club?

(cuz I´m gloating a bit about our mutual living arrangements! Aussies got it good!)
JC

The paddock across the road is pink at the moment.
The cats freak out every time a car stops to take a pic.

The paddock across the road is pink at the moment.
The cats freak out every time a car stops to take a pic.



Wow, that is amazing! What a fabulous view!

I live on 5 acres in country Tasmania. We have a small hobby farm of Goats, ducks, chickens, a few psycho possums, rabbits and a friendly wallaby. The kids get to run around on the property and hubby is a traditional country Aussie bloke.

Everyone here is friendly, and the town of Oatlands is 15 mins down the Road. It has a district school, with the school bus stopping at the farm gate each day. The grades are from kinder to grade 10, so there is no need for the kids to have to go to a city school which I like. Oatlands isn´t overcrowded like some city schools, and there is more personal One on one teacher contact with pupils.
Oatlands also has a bakery, shops, library, online centre and a pool.

The whole community helped us SO MUCH when our house burned down two years ago. You don´t always get that kind of thing in the "big smoke". Within 45 minutes of the fire, a lady turned up at the neighbors house where we were sheltering, with clothes and toys for the kids. Everyone dropped stuff off for us over the coming weeks, and offered services to help us re-build. We re-built on the same place, (we own our house and lands, we don´t rent) so now have a brand new 3 bedroom house! The phoenix really can rise again from the ashes. I love my new kitchen with the BIG breakfast bar (great in the mornings for the family!) dining room and the built in wardrobes. Then there is the traditional WOOD stove. it bakes the BEST homemade bread, casseroles and cakes!

I couldn´t imagine living anywhere else...and am Glad the kids have the chance to grow up in such a loving community. Also...relatives are less than an hours drive away!

What more could you want!??

Ruth-Anne.

I live in Oakleigh,about 30 mins south-east of Melbourne.
We have a huge back yard with lots of fruit trees and plenty of places
for the cats to play.Bats often fly around at night,Dime sometimes tries to
jump at them but her Daddy gets her away as quick as he can.
my cats don´t bother the birds we have coming into the yard,we have a magpie
at the moment that struts around and gets quite close but Harvey,who sits on a rug on the back porch,just looks at the bird with very little interest.
Maybe because he is 14 he cant be bothered anymore?

We are from the west (WA) we live in Armadale which is a suburb. I guess it’s not too bad around here but not much for cats. I live in a small 3Bed 1Bath home but Mum does her best to accommodate for me. I have my own corner where my castle sits and my own chair to sleep on.

There are plenty of parks around and lots of birds. Everyone is friendly. Some days i sit on the fence looking into the next door neighbours yard and most nights we have a cat gathering between my house and the cats house across the road, there are 5 of us in our group.

We cant wait to have our new home built. We will be living in the country surrounded by bush and will have 10acers to run around on and our own stables to hunt mice in.