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The day-to-day operations of a village are the responsibility of the village manager. It's a demanding role, overseeing the business side of the village alongside the wellbeing of the residents. We asked Christine Grafitti to tell us of her background and her daily life as a village manager.
"Now we have a new house, no lawns, no gardens and if we want to go away we just leave. We emigrated from the UK 46 years ago and moved into a housing commission home. We then bought the best home we could afford to bring up our kids, but we had bad neighbours and had to get out.
"The bushfires for me were one of the deciding factors. We had four, and I always worried when my husband David had to get on the roof and clean the gutters every two months. We had a sloping site and the garden was getting to be a problem."
"It's a matter of ‘new' versus ‘old.' We had a big house for 35 years and everything creaked and groaned. Here everything is new and clean. It's great."
The wife wasn't keen to move to a village. I wanted to, but I just said it was up to her. I couldn't force her. My knees at that stage were very bad and we struggled with what I call an upside-down house, with all the living upstairs. In fact, we had placed a deposit on a chair lift for the stairs but it just wasn't going to work."
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