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Those suburbs are also good for hubs, cockburn/success has also been a huge success but ultimately it is a load that has to be spread. Your attitude just seems to be build it anywhere as long as it doesn't concern me and that is pretty irresponsible imo. Look at the amount of increased density...

I'm also genuinely curious about your comment that it isn't sustainable to put apartments in claremont yet you're advocating more of eglingtons etc? I can't think of a single metric where what you're proposing is in any way more sustainable. What am I missing?

Yes decentralisation does need to happen, along with increased density because what's happening right not simply is stupid

Yes the traffic is bad there for an entire 30 mins a day boo hoo. If I recall correctly you seemed to feel that infrastructure funding should have gone towards claremont unsteady of light rail so I don't think you are being in any way impartial. Claremont is what 8km from cbd, has schools...

All that info is easily available online by people much more capable and highly qualified than me to explain

Sprawl is not normal, not to the extent that we have it. Perth metropolitan area is massive and the problem with that is that it is impossible to properly service these suburbs. It costs a fortune and is a huge reason for the traffic problems we've started to see in perth It is a 119km drive...

I live in the inner suburbs and have for years, congestion is minimal, what are you talking about? Endless sprawl is silly and completely unsustainable. The inner suburbs have the infrastructure and public transport and it's exactly the place we should be having increased density. Stop being...

youre missing the point. perth doesnt have a lot of options when it comes to "inner" suburbs with local amenities etc and often within those suburbs there isnt a huge amount of housing options although clearly it is getting better than it used to be. certainly vic park should have been...

10 mins from amenities is still 10 mins.

yeah but that included the retired etc imo

can you provide any links that show it is fairly average household income? surely the point hes making (or at least what i take from this) is that someone who earns more than half the average wage in WA (and about 2.5 times the median wage) cannot afford to buy blue chip and still raise a...

There's certainly an element of wanting to cause a stir and I think it's a good thing if it promotes discussion. He is highly qualified to discuss such matters surely?

Thanks for the valuable insight

But if he can afford to live in the equivalent of your leedys and Mt lawleys in other cities can you blame him for not wanting to live in Morley in Perth?

Exactly. Still doable but it may not make sense for him to do so. Of course if he wanted to live in the boring suburbs he'd have lots more options but as someone who personally never would live there I can understand his resistance to it

It isn't as simple as that. Look at his job title, he would have the ability to live in many cities in the world as his knowledge is transferable. Quite simply the numbers didn't stack up for him. That doesn't mean he couldn't have done it of course, it just sounds like it didn't make sense...