Friday, January 02, 2009  Changing suburbs  These two houses
will be demolished. Up until perhaps the 1980s, two storey
houses in Australia were mostly found in the very inner areas of
capital cities and were the preserve of the rich. These two
below are in Glenferrie Road, Malvern and the area certainly
fits the bill so far as rich people go, although it is a bit
further from town than inner burbs are considered to be. They
will probably be replaced by a number of very expensive two
storey apartment buildings.  As an aside, this is prime area for
Jewish people to move to, and they have. While Jews started very
modestly when they arrived post World War 2 from Europe by
settling in St Kilda, they spread directly east to Balaclava,
now their traditional Jewish shopping area, further east to
Caulfield and south to Elsternwick, and more recently even
further east into Murrumbeena, having skipped Carnegie, and the
very well to do extended north from Caulfield into Malvern. Less
than ten years ago, a new synagogue