Comments on: The Pull and Push of Bondi http://bondibanter.com/the-pull-and-push-of-bondi/ Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:43:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.4 By: bondimermaid http://bondibanter.com/the-pull-and-push-of-bondi/#comment-13965 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:43:01 +0000 http://bondibanter.com/?p=295#comment-13965 Yes, I agree. I would love the 322 bus route to still run. I can’t understand why it was ever stopped. Surely it would be very well patronised these days. It is tricky to get from Bondi to Rose Bay if you don’t drive. Also I just realised what a great option it would be to avoid the gridlock of traffic for people wanting to go to Bondi on busy days. Cruise on a ferry then get a 322 to the beach!

Re parking and rate payers…please don’t get me started here! But yes some kind of compensation for rate payers would be appreciated.

Re developments – I think my feelings on this have been expressed elsewhere in this blog – let’s slow it all down a bit.

Thanks for sharing your views Jane 🙂

]]> By: Jane Grevis http://bondibanter.com/the-pull-and-push-of-bondi/#comment-13740 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 03:32:38 +0000 http://bondibanter.com/?p=295#comment-13740 Well, All of you that are younger than me.. The Whole thing needs to stop, not you guys but what has happened to our area that we grew up in.
1) Brings back the 322
2) Bring back the Free parking for rate payers only

3) Stop these developments not only at the beach but areas within Bondi.

]]> By: bondimermaid http://bondibanter.com/the-pull-and-push-of-bondi/#comment-3039 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:17:00 +0000 http://bondibanter.com/?p=295#comment-3039 I hear you Paula! I lived in the inner city for a little while a number of years ago and really missed being in Bondi and near the water. Yes I agree…as a close friend always said to me (particularly around that time of my life), “you can take the girl out of Bondi but you can’t take Bondi out of the girl!” It’s good that you get to visit often.

]]> By: Paula Duggan http://bondibanter.com/the-pull-and-push-of-bondi/#comment-3027 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 01:04:50 +0000 http://bondibanter.com/?p=295#comment-3027 If Bondi is your home and you love it, do not leave! Once you leave (unless you are very wealthy) you will never be able to afford to move back.

But not matter what you decide always remember ” you can take the girl out of Bondi but you can never take the Bondi out of the girl”.

I left Bondi many years ago after I married. I would love to move back and always call it home, visiting often.

]]> By: bondimermaid http://bondibanter.com/the-pull-and-push-of-bondi/#comment-718 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 10:21:06 +0000 http://bondibanter.com/?p=295#comment-718 I understand. It is a difficult thing to reconcile. I totally get that life is about change and that everything changes and that development of our suburbs, towns and cities is a kind of inevitability in our lives. But sometimes the pace of change is a bit too rapid! 🙂

]]> By: Christov10 http://bondibanter.com/the-pull-and-push-of-bondi/#comment-699 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 02:33:57 +0000 http://bondibanter.com/?p=295#comment-699 The place I grew up is unrecognizable now. I never want to see again what it’s become. That’s harder for me than anything else.

You know, I’ve watched silent movies and recognized locations and structures that were recognizable when I was a kid living living below Mesa Street in San Pedro. So much history and soul’s been bulldozed, paved over, and gentrified. I feel like some revenant from a lost world. So much better, for me, to move on and live in my present.

Sorry to be such a downer – I do have strong feelings about “development” – I try not to feel them very often, though.

]]> By: bondimermaid http://bondibanter.com/the-pull-and-push-of-bondi/#comment-691 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:11:18 +0000 http://bondibanter.com/?p=295#comment-691 Well I think there’s a lot to be said to live a part of your life somewhere other than where you grew up. So many people I know have lived in another city or another part of the world to where they spent their childhood/teens and appear to have “moved on” after they’ve left their hometown. Maybe I’m just too much of a sentimentalist or nostalgia-head. In any case, I find it difficult being confronted with seeing so much of my hometown being changed – it’s like someone erasing your memories when you don’t want them to.

]]> By: Christov10 http://bondibanter.com/the-pull-and-push-of-bondi/#comment-642 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 22:11:29 +0000 http://bondibanter.com/?p=295#comment-642 Well, of course the drawback to becoming a pragmatist is the wear and tear on one’s heart, which is why its suppression or removal altogether sometimes seems warranted.

Truthfully, I don’t seriously ever “look back.” I have the most vivid memories from earliest childhood on, photographs, and having put down roots in another place, I have been more than compensated for the years the locusts ate.

Apologies for frequent use of cliches in this reply.

]]> By: bondimermaid http://bondibanter.com/the-pull-and-push-of-bondi/#comment-638 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:32:54 +0000 http://bondibanter.com/?p=295#comment-638 Hey Christov10, I hear ya! Though surely with the “right” kind of buildings and landscaping, businesses and marketing, I think that the development-machine can turn just about any place into a tourist destination!
That’s shame to hear about the San Pedro and Palos Verdes area having the same kind of fate. So do you recommend becoming a heartless pragmatist? are there any cons to consider?

]]> By: Christov10 http://bondibanter.com/the-pull-and-push-of-bondi/#comment-621 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:41:43 +0000 http://bondibanter.com/?p=295#comment-621 Although not a tourist-worthy destination, this same thing happened to my native San Pedro and Palos Verdes Peninsula. I must say I’m happy I left, but I’ve become a heartless pragmatist.

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