Last week we noted efforts by Member for Fraser Andrew Leigh to recruit his colleagues to Northside living.
Now the southside based Member for Canberra Gai Brodtman has revved up her website to kick off a Southside Rocks campaign, complete with t-shirts.
This week I announced that the Southside was striking back against a campaign that is underway by the member of Fraser to convince members of parliament to move to the north of Canberra!
The Southside Rocks campaign needs your help to highlight everything the south has to offer. So email me your suggestions and tell me what you love about living in the South of Canberra – it could be your favourite place to visit, favourite restaurant or a walk that you like to do every weekend.
Email me at gai.brodtmann.mp@aph.gov.au by Monday 5 March and you could win one of my very funky Southside Rocks t-shirts.
Such a shame Gai can’t think of anything good about the southside without help.
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Captain RAAF said :
Yet to see a collapse in property values on the Northside. Will keep watching. Thanks for the intel, Captain….
Captain RAAF said :
Yeah, probably from an agent who sells exclusively on the southside! Hahahaha!
Captain RAAF said :
Where’s the biff?
I can’t say I’ve seen lots of people fleeing the inner north recently. Was this real estate agent the one selling your friend a house on the southside? I wouldn’t take what he says as gospel if there was money involved.
Interesting.
On a related note, mate of mine just purchased a house in Chisholm. Nothing unusual about that but he was a deadset fan of buying Northside, considered it more trendy and the better location.
Anyway, he had a look around, a few things influenced his decision, like price, block size, crime rate and types of crime etc and he bought southside. While speaking to his real estate agent about his previous desire to live up North the agent commented that he had made the right decision,
…..”Northside is going downhill, people are moving out in droves, some people are moving before they even sell up, they just want to get out!”
This from a real estate agent!
Has anyone heard of this phenomenon?
PS: Yes, I’m back…..but much nicer now. =-)
NoImRight said :
A suburb named after a General! BRING IT YOU NORTHERN GUM SUCKERS!
Southsiiide Represent!
poetix said :
I grew up in downer Downer and we were ostracised by the inhabitants of upper Downer. Many years later I lived for a year in middle Downer and we weren’t really accepted by either side.
Thumper said :
Yes, you’ll get more performance out of your Northern, but they’re not as robust as the Southern or Central.
davo101 said :
Frankly I’d go for the Northern Spotted Sumatran Sloth.
VYBerlinaV8_is_back said :
Definitely the spotted, the plain is so, well, plain.
I-filed said :
We don’t like to mention the inhabitants of Ainslie over here in O’Connor. I’m sure some of them are quite nice though, and doing as well for themselves as is to be expected. Watson is another matter, of course…
Tooks said :
Read the thread. You are not.
Keijidosha said :
Exactly. We Queanbeyanites yearn for the day when Canberrans are smart enough and have the natural charm needed to compete on an equal footing.
Tooks said :
Agreed. Canberrans should stop arguing about which side of the lake is better and focus on the real enemy – Queanbeyan.
Am I the only one who finds this north v south ‘rivalry’ a little…retarded? People get so fired up about it. Who cares?
What’s the point of defining our locations relative to town centres if we can’t argue about which one is besterest?
I-filed said :
See, this is why we need light rail down the middle of Northbourne.
Oh come on we can do better than that. How about the east/west of Northbourne social divide?
Jivrashia said :
That comment would have worked well if you could spell ‘bogan’…
A sterile, hollow debate is a safe debate.