And I think that "some serious sh*t is about to happen" there.
Because what has evolved over the past 30 years or so is that *shark* developers have locked up the coastal land and created many thousands of new residential blocks - upon which they and their mates have built many thousands of McMansions.
Which they have since on-sold to middle aged bogans contemplating an idyllic seaside retirement.
These developments are located near or in golf courses or adjacent to marina developments and their developers have spent large percentages of their funds on *marketing* them to gullible city-based bogans.
You know the ones - they used to work in manufacturing and live in suburbia - but they have lost their "job for life" and the wife wanted to retire to the seaside.
So far - so good. Just a couple of minor problems.
Firstly, these thousands of McMansions aren't near any important community facilities. The developers failed to provide any commercial space to accommodate supermarkets, post offices, medical centres, Centrelink offices or anything else that said bogans need access to on a daily basis.
Because as we know with our *free enterprise* system - that is always someone-else's problem.
And that is possibly OK when you are semi retired and still have a car and a driver’s license. But what happens when you lose your mobility as you age? How do you then get to the supermarket and medical centre that is 10km away?
And the second problem is related. What about when the entire complement of McMansion owners have lost their mobility - and they all decide to move nearer to important facilities or to the retirement village?
What happens when they all try to sell their thousands of McMansions into a market that doesn't want them?
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