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Magdalena Duma

Preston polishes up its act

WHEN last house-hunting six years ago, I spent almost all my energy looking in North Fitzroy and North Carlton. You see, under my edgy exterior I have quite blue blood. I don€™t want it, it is very expensive and annoying to be so fussy. (Since then I believe these two suburbs may have been officially renamed Royal North Roy and Golden North Carlton.) Anyway, in spite of my blue blood I could not afford any of the houses in these supremo locations, so now I reside in sunny Northcote €” where the temperature is always at least four degrees hotter than the CBD thanks to the northerly whooshing down St Georges Road. After six years I have grown used to it and also have come to realise that Preston, once a camel-and-waterbag prospect for me, is actually very close and swiftly becoming quite the posh neighbour.