As a teenager, I roamed what is now Haleland Park, Moka and the golf course when most of it was still the old agricultural Perseverance Estate. Where, within my own memory, there was once only bush and crops, there is now only concrete and fairways; and very few people here are in the rough.Even the two or three, odd-man-out Seventies-style, two- and three-bedroom apartment complexes built by one man and a work crew from back-of-an-envelope drawings will run you closer to $2 million than one-point-five. Bungalows start at $3 million, houses can easily cost double that.
Many Haleland Park houses and Moka mansions make their counterparts in Goodwood Park and Glencoe look shabby; I could run my own household for a year on what one pair of wrought iron automatic gates must have cost. Add the Italian tiled-driveway and I could send a child to school in Foreign.The people who live here call the national shots, as they probably should. Okay, the otherwise incompetent crooks who have stolen huge amounts of energy dollars through bogus state contracts live here, too, but many, perhaps most, of these residents are damned good at difficult, high-stress jobs, and have earned their success with sweat; don't begrudge them high incomes. With the political thugs stealing most of the patrimony boldly–and firetrucking rapidly, now, too–it is these bigshots of Maraval who create the wealth we all depend on. Without them, we'd be firetrucked.
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