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Herald Sun | The Family Unit
4 July 2010
Small is beautiful as the dream changes
The Australian dream used to be a broad patch of turf in the suburbs with a corrugated shed and outhouse, a Blue Heeler and a Hills Hoist.
If you were lucky, a kit home on an acre at Bonnie Doon awaited in the summer for some murky water lake swimming with the kids.
But the '50s rush to the suburbs has been replaced by a race to city lifestyle as inner-urban nooks are snapped up under fierce competition.
Even holiday homes are becoming holiday townhouses.
In many areas apartment prices are overtaking house prices in the same vicinity as a growing number of Melburnians embrace the trend towards small and modern.
As the population grows and the dream changes, some families are choosing to buy up by scaling down - moving from a large and cheaper suburban house to a more expensive townhouse closer to the action of the city...
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