bogan street
this is kind of an in-joke for aussies.
for those of you who don’t know the definition of bogan, here it is – “a term used for a lower class white Australian, similar in meaning to the US term trailer trash”.
i know of another bogan street in sydney, it’s in wahroonga, on the leafy, pretty, sensible and somewhat aloof north shore.
it seems that the sensitive and delicate petals that are the north shore set can’t seem to handle the name of the street that they bought into anymore. seems they also take themselves a little bit too seriously to be a part of the self-deprecating culture of humour that makes so many australians amiable and approachable. (“what will my friends and the ladies who lunch say! the ladies at bridge club don’t take me seriously anymore. we won’t even get a lowly eastern european au paire with an address like that. darling, let’s lobby council to change the name of our street”).
check out the fight to rename bogan street, wahroonga here.
though wahroonga doesn’t really float my boat, there is some architectural history that does set me a-sail. harry seidler built a house for his mum here which has become quite famous – Rose Seidler House. It’s part of the Historic Houses Trust and is a real asset to the neighnbourhood and architecture as a whole. worth a look.
i wonder what the options for renaming bogan street will be – vuitton close, dior crescent, nob drive? time will tell.
Edited: May 24th, 2010
