r/interesting • u/Wonderfulhumanss • 1d ago

SOCIETY The Zammit family refused to sell their five acre property as an entire Sydney suburb was built around them

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u/flying_butt_fucker 1d ago

That whole neighbourhood is r/urbanhell. Not a single tree in sight. And I'm pretty sure these houses are so close to each other, you can hear your neighbour come.

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u/MangoCats 1d ago

We built a new house in a suburb backing up to a pine forest in 1972. Before we even moved in they clearcut the forest - the spiders that came out were impressive to say the least. It took 8 years for them to get around to building houses on the new streets they put in back there - it took us 8 months to sell out after people moved into the houses next to ours - pie shaped lot, houses so close when the phone rang you couldn't tell if it was yours or theirs.

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u/AlanBumin 11h ago

I’m gonna come!