ar-fungy

I've lived in three different apartments in the past five years in this area.
When I was single, this area was great for my life style. Walking distance to everywhere, eating out daily, close to work, clubs and social dancing scenes.
Love Gaswork plaza, close to the river walk, close to the 60 bus and city cat. Small drive to Newfarm park and to the city. Close to the airport.
Close to the best ice cream place in town. Close to the best Woolie in town that closes at 10pm. Basically close to everything you need and want.
Lots of rental to choose from that is semi affordable provided that you're a minimalist that don't need much storage.
Still a lot more of apartments going to pop up in the new few years. It may reach capacity in 3-5 years.
Of course, with more and more people moving in, it is getting more congested in terms of street parking and traffic, but is not too bad, everything still moving.
What I noticed is more and more young family with young kids are also attracted to this area because of the proximity so that they could spend more time with their young babies. You can see this at the Gasworks ring most days during sunset, during that time is basically a toddler areas.
However, lots of the small streets with no pedestrian crossing and traffic lights are a little bit risking for mum with strollers.
Also smokers can be a problem. Air quality is not that good of course.
With the suburb being surrounded by the river, valley and Ann st, it can sometime feels a bit claustrophobic and trapped.
Our neighbor recently moved out and has put her 1bed apartment for sell for $350K, I think she bought it for around $450K. man that hurts.