With the school there is already Facebook groups for kids going into schools, so its all just a really genuinely nice environment.” Up at the local shops everyone seems to know each other. “We have met the neighbours here and they’re all lovely and we previously didn’t know our neighbours. “Everyone will be out walking their dogs and you will stop and say hello and its genuine interaction but where we previously lived, everyone ignored each other and everyone was going about their daily business and didn’t care about each other,” she said.
Picture: Suppliedīest of all, Ms Holden feels a great sense of community in their new forever home. The couple sold their house, which was also on a busy main road, in April for $1.19 million and decided to rent for six months so they weren’t “caught up” in the crazy frenzy of property buying, but then just watched prices continue to go up.
“It just didn’t suit our lifestyle, especially during Covid with that first lockdown.” “But then the pandemic hit and the yard was too small, there was not enough space for the dog and not enough room for my husband to work from home without the kids annoying him. “We bought that off the plan when our daughter was a couple of weeks old and it was a three storey townhouse that we thought ticked all our boxes and had the right number of bedrooms and a backyard,” she told. Three years ago, Ms Holden and her marketing executive husband thought they had found the home they would live in until they were grey and old in Sydney’s south in the suburb of Gymea. Mum-of-two Claire Holden thought her family were happily set up in their forever home before the pandemic hit but living “on top of each other” during lockdown saw them brave the “crazy” Sydney market this year and fork out $1.36 million for their dream house.
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