I am bothered

Right - Here it is - I am gonna say it. I am pissed off!!

Good, now that I have that off why chest, you might wonder why? One simple reason - my space and suburb have changed too much and I dont like it.

When I moved here, it was all DINKS and female couples in sensible shoes and male fellows in designer sunglasses and flip flops dining together. The suburb had an edgy feel to it and was full of the movers and shakers you would expect. My local cafe (I am spoiled for choice with six of them) where I have eaten for the past 5 years used to be filled with couples that would politely nod at one another on saturday morning, knowing that we had bumped into one another at a gay venue the night before or been at the same queer film.

Of late, I walk in and have to dodge designer prams, parked in the doorway and in any available space. Now it is not the biggest venue and staff are always deftly dancing between communal and individual tables with caffeinated beverages. There are boobs out with infants suckling away with no care in the world, and yummy daddies with slings and papooses hanging off them with heads lolling backwards and forwards with the movement of dads body.

I am still pissed off. I dont want to suggest that people should not be there, doing this and that, with their prams, papooses and suckling babes, but I dont want it in my suburb. I dont want to dodge prams in my cafe.

It is funny that as real estate changes and suburbs are adopted by pooves and lesbians, the straight folks follow and things change. I have seen this before in Sydney and I will no doubt see it again.

But I dont know that I want to be in the burb where it happens.

That feels better