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Opinion pieces from local writers exploring their suburb’s cliches and realities and how it has changed in the past 20 years. See all stories .

It’s a cruel irony that hardly anyone in Melbourne knows where my suburb is but every summer I will be trapped in a traffic jam quietly cursing all the thousands of people who clog my roads, take up my car parks and even park across my driveway just to get to our beautiful beach.

Despite that beach, my suburb is for most a forgettable few kilometres of nondescript housing…

Read the full article at SMH.COM.AU