The Australia Desk · Story 1

My driveway. Kangaroos have no road sense. Please read my description before you comment

A top weekly thread from r/australia, drawing 7,016 score and 563 comments.

It rose to the top of The Australia Desk, making it a useful signal for what this audience argued about or shared this week.

Key details

r/australia ranked it at story 1 for The Australia Desk.
563 Reddit comments were reported on the source post.

Discussion angles

What the headline says about the australia desk.
Why r/australia pushed it above surrounding stories.
Whether the discussion has broader relevance beyond the subreddit.

Top comments

The top 5 comments collected for this story carried 4,258 combined score. The quotes below are short excerpts from the highest-ranked visible comments.

Thanks for your hard work regenerating the land, I appreciate you

u/astroboy217 · 1,777 score

Dude your life actually sounds awesome

u/fiixed2k · 1,253 score

It is. Anyone can do the same. Our place cost less than half what a city house and block costs. Our biggest commitment is time and physical effort, not money....

u/hairy_quadruped · 717 score

I was semi-retired for a few years. 3 days a week I would work in Canberra, 4 days a week we spend at the property. Now I’m fully retired so we spend even more time here. My commute to Canberra was 120km, my driving fuel is solar power....

u/hairy_quadruped · 276 score

I'm asking this with 100% curiosity only for how I might be able to do something similar one day, no judgement behind the question: how do you make money to be able to do this? Did you wait until retirement, or somehow make it work before then?

u/SheebonPlantsFlowers · 235 score

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