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    Melb apartment sold for $25m

    That's great. Good for them. I think you're mistaking me for someone else. I thought my views against suburban sprawl were pretty evident from my points on this forum. You don't need to live in a 100 storey building to enjoy the amenities and convenience of inner city living. A well-planned...
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    Melb apartment sold for $25m

    Have a look at the Census figures again, specifically the ones for number of people per household. There is a massive difference between the number of one and two person households compared to three and above. It's a pretty significant drop. That tells me that singles and couples are happy to...
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    Melb apartment sold for $25m

    That project in New York is the exception, not the norm. In addition, developers over there don't just get a tick and flick like here. You have to make a commitment to improve the amenities within the local area to support the increased population resulting from the development before any...
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    Melb apartment sold for $25m

    My point is that a few big buildings is not what makes a city great or unique. Skycrapers of this height are terrible environmentally speaking as they use ridiculous amounts of electricity and that's excluding the huge amount of maintenence this building will require. I don't envy the body...
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    Melb apartment sold for $25m

    It's a nice apartment but I'm not fan of the building at all. It's a desperate attempt by the gov't (who obviously approved it) to make Melbourne seem like a world class and important city when really it's just a B-grade city masquerading as something bigger. The comparison with Dubai in that...
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