Thinking about just renting a unit instead of owning- anyone else doing this ?

rgmwa · 2026-03-03T06:23:51Z

8 hours ago, randomx said:

Haaaa, bloody classic.

Most of the still married guys say stuff like that , cracks me up. Been awhile l forget all that part of it but talking to ex just the other night actually and coincidently all that stuff came flooding back right there.

Doesn't this wants that needs to this must do that eat this don;t that man, on and on and on, forgot what it was like.

And that was just all her ideas coming out for herself , while we're talking but, got off the phone thinking jezuz thk God she's not running my show too- back to my bliss, ahhh.

Actually ,,while she was at it though, she did tell me what to do too 🤣🤣 - just stay there, extend your place, who cares. She lives in the middle of Sydney now, she use to come over to the cabin here with me back in the day though, we'd tidy up and stuff.

Leave your ex in Sydney, stay where you are, extend your place and get a dog. 😊

randomx · 2026-03-03T08:19:31Z

3 hours ago, rgmwa said:

You can be just as lonely renting somewhere else. If everything is pretty good where you are now, apart from the distance to a larger town, maybe it's being on your own too much that's the main problem?

Weird really. Never felt it like this anywhere, although l've been married or partnered up so but you are right though nonetheless.

Yep, ex in in Sydney safe enough 12hrs drive from me 🤣 .

Been thinking about a dog but yeah l'm def on my own too much. Not much l can do about it though go out as much as l can and get around people.

willedoo · 2026-03-03T09:53:26Z

randomx, if I dial the clock back to 1988, I was looking to buy my own place. I was divided between two different ways to go, buy a house in town or buy acreage and build. The acreage thing was a natural as I was born and bred on farms and not a town person. But at the time I was working away fifo style, and I thought a house in town would be a good option to fit that lifestyle. Low maintenance, just breeze in and out, hang your hat on the wall when you get home and just lock it up when you go back to work. At the time real estate was dirt cheap and I looked at one nice little two bedroom brick veneer I could have bought for $42,000. It was on the edge of town with all bush at the back and walking distance to the beach and shops.

As it was, I ended up buying an acerage block, about 17 acres which I later extended to 20. It was totally undeveloped and real pioneering stuff in the beginning with an old Millard caravan, lighting from the car battery and a 60 gallon drum for a donkey hot water system. Almost 38 years later, I'm still here and glad I did buy the bush block. Facilities and infrastructure have improved a lot but I'll still be working on the place until I drop dead. That's probably a good thing and better than dying of boredom in a nursing home. In town I'd probably feel like a budgie in a cage. But it will always be in the back of my mind what life would have been like if I'd bought that house in town. Certainly a lot easier, but maybe not as interesting.

willedoo · 2026-03-03T10:01:19Z

Forgot to mention, I never did make that decision to buy a bush block rather than a house in town. It just happened that way. I was still looking at both types and when my place came up for sale, I knew straight away it was a rare opportunity and I'd be crazy not to buy it. So the decision was kind of made for me in that way. It never even got advertised. I was just lucky to ring the agent on the same day as he listed it. He drove me there to have a look and I signed the contract the next morning. It was a rare find in the position it is.

randomx · 2026-03-03T11:25:14Z

Ah , thx for that wd, had to shorten that one 😁 .

Was wondering where your at from the way you said l thought might be land involved.

And now all these yrs eh, 1/2 your bloody luck mate unfortunately l can't say the same but we did try interstate a bit too which kinda lead to it.

But l know that feeling of no questions asked, troubles me a bit about here bc l'm asking too many l guess. Wish it was as simple or am l just asking too many yaknow. Property itself though is a very nice little place for sure.

How far from town are ya ?

But eh that's funny to, like l see your reasoning for the two but those two were as bigger contrasts as my thoughts now with this place or up in town and a unit/house . But l have lived it and l grew up in Melb and lived in towns so know the life but l've always been a mix of the two, city/country. Growing up dad had farms we use to go up to on wkends, later on l left Melb. Especially these days prefer regional too mad down there now.

Haven't had a big place as from as scratch as yours but we did have a dozy, this one was just bare land. Brought the cabin over on a trailer made it myself lived here to 9mths back then first few like yours no power water nothing just the cabin shell. Land was bare as a babys bum, nothing.

lt was only spose to be an investment, was never to live on butttt, life eh.

rx

Edited yesterday at 11:25 AM by randomx

willedoo · 2026-03-03T12:21:35Z

randomx, my place is one of the bigger size blocks in the area, excluding farms that is. Most blocks have been subdivided but I bought mine before a lot of that happened. It's not isolated though, one town is 8k's west and another 10k's to the east. The beach is about 12k by road. The population here has gone mad over the years but I'm lucky to have the topography that gives a lot of privacy. I've got thirteen neighbours on my boundary but from most of the block you can't see any of them, and a lot of them are fairly large blocks as well. I'm up high and even though some neighbours are probably only a couple of hundred metres away, they're down over a cliff so they might as well be a kilometre away. There's six rock cliffs on my property and it's covered in thick timber and jungle in places so it gives privacy. It's a rough block and not for the feint hearted, but I like it. It's a natural paradise, heaps of bird life and swamp wallabys. A lot of their environment has been destroyed by development over the years so they rely on blocks like mine for a home.

I originally came from grain/sheep/cattle country, so it's a big difference now living in this coastal country. If I had a flat block the privacy wouldn't be there and it would probably drive me up the wall. The saving grace is the topography of my place and the size. When I'm at home, it's not much different than when I bought the place in 1988, but drive out the front gate and life gets hectic real quick. Best of both worlds I suppose. Peace and quiet on the block, or plenty of shops, people and noise when you venture out. The district is almost unrecognisable from what it was when I first moved here, but it's still nowhere near as bad as the Gold Coast.

randomx · 2026-03-03T13:08:41Z

Ah man, l've seen the development, they do not mess around it's incredible, bit sad to.

You've probably had it many times already but one day someone's gonna knock on your door with a very big number $ , begging you to sell. Thank God your thinking of habitat too, if only more would instead eh.

You must feel like a fox coming out of his den and into all that just out the gate must admit though if that happened here in the next 6mths ha ha, l'd be wrapped.

Incredible property though and must be pretty bizarre now .

Ain;t gonna happen here though no way unfortunately , a bit of development we need in this place.

randomx · 2026-03-03T21:18:59Z