Oct 9, 2026 · 33 min · 9 segments
Gilbert couldn't afford a house in Sydney. So he bought one in Queensland instead, in an area people told him to avoid. He's a transport allocator. Fleet of 15 trucks, a second job in freight…
Yeah? I think that's a good place to start, if that's okay with you.
So first and foremost, we originally went to this area.
Yeah.
Logan [laughs] had a bad rap, right? And some areas still a bad rap, but Logan had a bad rap then.
A, a lot of people went, "You guys are nuts to buy in that LGA," right? They were just like, "You, you are crazy." Like, dentists over there make a, make a killing because everyone's got one tooth.
Jokes, I'm just joking.
It's a joke, relax.
Um, so, um, that, that's been the stigma of these kind of, uh, gentrifying areas.
We knew how much development was going on there.
Tell me about the process.
When you were like, "Is this the area?" Right? "There's been a bad rap." Like, how did that kind of sink in a little bit?
...
so yeah, so-
Whoop whoop
... um, you know, it, uh-
I was so white then, bro
...
it, it didn't kind of phase me, so it's like it, it didn't phase me too much that I was living in an area that, that had a bad rap, so.
Why not? This is interesting.
Why not, bro?
Well, well, because when I did a bit of a deep dive into where the area is and-
Mm
Yeah? I think that's a good place to start, if that's okay with you.
So first and foremost, we originally went to this area.
Yeah.
Logan [laughs] had a bad rap, right? And some areas still a bad rap, but Logan had a bad rap then.
A, a lot of people went, "You guys are nuts to buy in that LGA," right? They were just like, "You, you are crazy." Like, dentists over there make a, make a killing because everyone's got one tooth.
Jokes, I'm just joking.
It's a joke, relax.
Um, so, um, that, that's been the stigma of these kind of, uh, gentrifying areas.
We knew how much development was going on there.
Tell me about the process.
When you were like, "Is this the area?" Right? "There's been a bad rap." Like, how did that kind of sink in a little bit?
...
so yeah, so-
Whoop whoop
... um, you know, it, uh-
I was so white then, bro
...
it, it didn't kind of phase me, so it's like it, it didn't phase me too much that I was living in an area that, that had a bad rap, so.
Why not? This is interesting.
Why not, bro?
Well, well, because when I did a bit of a deep dive into where the area is and-
Mm
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