r/interesting • u/Wonderfulhumanss • 4d ago

SOCIETY The Zammit family refused to sell their five acre property as an entire Sydney suburb was built around them

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u/dunncrew 4d ago

All those other houses look so depressing.

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u/thoughtfreeze 4d ago

Honestly in the zoomed-in photo the surrounding houses and the central lot all look depressing to me

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u/CosmicGoddess777 4d ago

This one does too. Especially the lawn.

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u/dunncrew 4d ago

Not even 1 tree

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u/shifty_fifty 4d ago

These horizontally stacked sardine cans signal most of what’s wrong with our country. Yeah the guys in the big block could plant a tree or two, but what parent in their right mind would want to raise kids in those shoe-boxes?

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u/CoastStraight7229 3d ago

So does the one in the middle. Hellscape of a property, zero trees, nothing but grass?

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u/dunncrew 3d ago

Yup. Crazy boring.

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u/PrimaryInjurious 4d ago

You want new housing or not?

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u/FuckLemmy 4d ago

Is the only way to build housing a 1 floor box with a driveway, no front garden and a 2x5m back garden?

How about townhouses and apartments?

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u/phillxor 4d ago

As a tradie who has worked in that area, they are.
The People who live there lap it up though