Thought I’d raise a thread that’s not about Ben, Donald or Covid. Perhaps only Senior Seagull and I will be interested in it. Anyway, would just like to ask senior if he has been a long time resident of York. I lived just out of York and went to school there for my first 6 1/2 years. I love going back there to sit on the main drag with a coffee and sanger. It’s a lovely little town.
Was there with the family for one of the kids Swimming comps mid Feb. Loved it. Not far from Perth - about 80 minutes but has a real country feel. Very picturesque
WA’s oldest inland settlement and prime farming country, can be a little rocky though. Used to drive through there on the way to see the Grandma in Quairading many times, Dad would always take a little detour and take us past the old haunted hospital.
Us, salt of the earth, Beverly people don’t get on with those toffs from york. You can keep your average footy team and the tree change hippies from the city. Come on across to a friendly country town and meet actual farmers, not the weekend straw bonnet variety of our northern cousins. While you’re here, have a real home-made sausage roll and sauce instead of an overpriced cafe latte with kale and tofu on a brioche roll.
So much pent up anger and envy Dev!!
Both nice towns, only been in York for a little under 2 years but been regular visitors for over 10 years. Kids and grandies up here and i work from home so an easy move and just a little over 50 mins from Midland which has all the facilities one needs re shopping, major hospitals, and other services, Northam is about 25 mins away with most of the day to day stuff. We have a decent IGA but not the range of Northam, so quite well serviced. It can be a bit cliquey though with the old time farming families consider themselves above the rest, which I’m sure is the same as the other 3 main Avon towns in Toodyay, Northam and Beverley. If you dont have a family member in the cemetary then your not a local!!
Love it up here but do miss the sea breeze, the bird life is amazing and just lots and lots of lovely bushland and space. Was going to join the local footy team (social member) this season but we all know whats happened there. Lots of very good footballers from up this way. The Bateman family is a very well respected local family and the region has good ties with the Perth footy club.
So happy up here and the drive down for Subi games is never a chore.
Well, SS you haven’t had to endure a drive home after a loss too often have you 
Haha, true TOO, but I have many many years of much shorter drives home from Subi games with feelings of total disappointment and depression to give it all some balance.
Like all on here I’m missing my footy, but saving a shedload on petrol.
SS, good to see you won lotto and were able to move there. Got very pricey at one time.
The southern Avon used to be my stomping ground in another life and had a relationship with Beverley work wise.
Every couple of years we do the triangle from Perth to see how things are going and reminisce. Great Eastern to the Lakes, stop at York for lunch (no latte or kale, thanks) then on to Beverly to the old Research Station, take the back roads to the Brookton highway and check one of the dams on the way back.
Had a few mates in the day play for York and got themselves a G/F. Very proud footy club but like all wheatbelt towns suffering from a lack of depth.
May Huey send you early and plentiful rains this season.
Thanks Dev, the local cockies have fingers crossed for a decent downpour so seeding can get underway, some are dry seeding. If the cockies have a good year, then the town has a good year.
Lovely town York, haven’t been there for a while. We had a few relatives who used to come over from the UK and Ireland and we would always take them to York. Is the Motor Museum still around?
Hey Senior, have you had a meal at the Greenhills Inn? I believe it’s a very popular pub nowadays. It used to be called the Sedgemore Inn way, way back. Greenhills was a thriving, but small community and I have great memories from there and York from those days.
Love York have a property on the outskirts of town and will retire their one day I’m hoping..
Love myself a Latte…
58 have been out there a few times for lunches, great place, beautiful old pub full of antique furniture, food is excellent and that front bar with all the money notes stuck to the ceiling, is something different.
Nah, no lotto unfortunately, had a nice property in Bayswater we sold, but got hammered when selling in the big downturn, managed to get a nice 3/2 double brick place on 1/4 acre (small block up here) just 16 years old with a view to Mount Bakewell for $300k, we back onto the local pony club property up high on the west side of town so lots of space around us.
You went for the tree change SS and we went for a sea change. Sold our place in Attadale last September and bought a new build in North Coogee…enjoying close proximity to the ocean immensely.
Nice one BC, we went for the kids and grand kids change and never looked back. but i do envy your proximity to the sea breeze. If you get a hot day down there you get the breeze keeping the temp to mid high thirties, up here it keeps going up to mid 40’s, max temp is quite often at 5 or 6pm, thank heavens for ducted AC!!
You’ll really love summer there when gen x/y get daylight saving up and running.
Flies, over 40 degrees and sunlight at 9pm.
Was a blight when I was in the bush and and still hated it when it was forced down our throats a few years back and we live near the coast!!
58 have been out there a few times for lunches, great place, beautiful old pub full of antique furniture, food is excellent and that front bar with all the money notes stuck to the ceiling, is something different.
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I’ve never had a beer in the pub. Spent plenty of time sitting in the car waiting for the old man though!! I can remember that summers were always stinking hot, but we loved it. That was in the days before DLS, climate change and A/C’s.
I’d love to check out the boarding house too. That is the old Post Office/telephone exchange that we used to operate.