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These comments are more interesting than the furniture/store.

I love living out of a bag which is why I don't unpack. Homely is for home!

I like cohesive catalogue looks but I like to live in mix and matched, suits my personality much better.

brand new/glossy. I can't stand it when furniture looks like it has never been used, carpet never been walked on, windows never opened and no one actually living there. I love to see how people are living in their space whether it's minimal or cluttered.

I love. Very Australian.

air conditioning is tarriffed beyond an average persons income here in Brisbane Australia, so I live through temps 90 to 110 without air conditioning every summer. Best tips are - visit places with great air conditioning (state library has great air-con and free wireless internet); see a movie during the hottest part of the day; live in a house that is off the ground for airflow; sleep during the day; go to the local pool and drink a lot. It's amazing how beer takes the edge off the heat.

Love the bedspread! Reminds me of the wall paper of my grandparents home in Lilydale!

Very Melbourne is all I think when I see it.

All those people who say that public transport wouldn't work LA is too spread out, apparently as far as city (incl suburbs) size goes my city of Brisbane is on a par with the size of LA. We have public transport. It works. Sure we complain about it daily because it's no awesome Tube, but its available and not just for poor people (an attitude I picked up from my husbands family while in the USA).

Also we've been upgrading out transport systems for years now, which creates a lot jobs from the planning to building, so there is a benefit for LA to do the same.

I grew up in Brisbane Australia where not one single old something hasn't become a new something in the last 20 years (ie powerhouse museum, woolstore appartments). Lived in Northern MI with husbands family for a year and was shocked about how a city as well known by name as Detroit could be left to rot like that. You can tell it's a real 'pretend decaying city over there doesn't exist while I build my super-mall suburb over here' kind of place. Very sad. Such beautiful architecture! Detroit shouldn't let the decay happen.

And I agree with LadyLabRat about Tourism, everyone I talked to when I got back was like "You lived near Detroit?" like it was the coolest thing in the world, people would go there at the very least for the music, cars and sports, if it were safe and accessible.