Cars of Glen Waverley

The suburb my mother lives in in Melbourne used to be a very anglo-celtic whitebread suburb but in the last generation it's become a favored destination for middle-class chinese (for those who don't know, 25% of Australians were born elsewhere, and if you include people who have an overseas-born parent it's over 50%). What does this mean for the neighborhood? A couple of things. For a start, the high school, which was a mediocre suburban high school when I was there a thousand years ago is now one of the best in the state and is the biggest feeder school to Monash University (when I was there they thought I was strange, and they used to throw things at me). And, of course, the culinary landscape has changed a lot. The local dining scene is incredibly competitive and fad-driven and generally excellent - for some types of super-authentic Asian foods its the middle-class suburbs on the far fringes of the city that really produce the goods. The New Territories.

But what I love most is the cars. The picure above is a good example. Notice the cartoon characters everywhere? This car also had a tissue box in the back, for extra points.