There’s no “keeping up with the Joneses” around here – people quietly go about living their lives in a landscape of benign suburban sameness.
Opinion pieces from local writers exploring their suburb’s cliches and realities and how it has changed in the past 20 years.Oakleigh South is, according to my children, a place where nothing interesting ever happens. And most Melburnians seem to agree.
The paradox of Oakleigh South is that a lot of what’s great about it is its proximity to other places. For example, there’s a wonderful collection of Sri Lankan shops just a short walk away – on the Clarinda side of Centre Road. Our local station, Huntingdale, is not actually in Oakleigh South. The residents, not so much. All those beautiful open green spaces are privately owned and for members only. Thanks to the sandy loam soil so valued by golf clubs, another chunk of the suburb is taken up by aThen there are the industrial pockets – showrooms, storage facilities and factories. The rest of Oakleigh South is residential, with many original ’60s and ’70s single-storey homes and a scattering of units, flats and townhouses.Golf courses, industrial parks, 1960s houses … yawn.
Oakleigh South is devoid of pretension. We don’t do grand mansions or showy homes (although a resident made the news in 2016 forThis place so epitomises Victorian suburbia that the late artist Howard Arkley moved here in 1991 to experience the suburbs that inspired his work. His artworks of 1960s brick veneer homes feature the use of pattern, iridescent colour and a distinctive airbrush technique.
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