No dunny but lots of money
Outsider has ignored the debate about housing prices because it seems that everyone and their dog has an opinion on the subject.
However a news item in a mainstream paper about a house on Sydney's northern beaches selling for $100,000 over its reserve price has brought his mind back to the subject.
You see, it was not that the fibro house outsold its reserve price, it was that the reserve price was $1 million - and the house didn't even have an inside toilet!
According to the newspaper report the house was still in its very original 1940's condition, which included an external laundry and toilet accessible under a covered pergola at the rear of the house.
Outsider still remembers the old days of out-houses and the night soil-man and is staggered that people would pay that much for a piece of nostalgia!
His chief memory of the outside ‘dunny' was being petrified of finding a red-back on the toilet seat or being caught short of folding paper half way through a visit — something with which the recent successful auction bidder had no trouble it seems.
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