Most Expensive Homes in Your Neighborhood

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

http://www.allhomes.com.au/ah/act/sale-residential/5-ridley-street-turner-canberra/1316825827811

In my suburb, $1.3 million

http://www.allhomes.com.au/ah/act/sale-residential/34-quandong-street-oconnor-canberra/1316837740211

Neighbouring area, $1.5 million

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

There's this mansion in my town, whose estate was most regrettably carved up to form my subdivision, that was listed for $25 million, but only managed $8.8 million. Probably because it has a whopping 7 acres.

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Looks a bit like a high school.

Well it's fugly, regardless of what it looks like.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

There's this mansion in my town, whose estate was most regrettably carved up to form my subdivision, that was listed for $25 million, but only managed $8.8 million. Probably because it has a whopping 7 acres.

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Looks a bit like a high school.

Well it's fugly, regardless of what it looks like.

Philistine.

No, someone with taste, who doesn't confuse size and embellishment with quality.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Over the top... if it were a 16th Century manor house, that'd be fine. But it's an affectation and phony. In fact, it's not even neo-Gothic, it's people with money who thought that had to have all that frou-frou around them.

I respect that SOME like it, I just don't.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

It's Jacobean! Don't even dare going about making criticisms if you don't know architectural history!

God, modernists are the worst. Modernism is really just terrible to begin with, and it's not surprising that its devotees aren't any better.

I like older styles, nor a fan of modernism