Australian Country Homes

Where the heart is

They say you can take the girl out of the country but you can’t take the country out of the girl. While Mildura-bornand-bred Debra Williams says she and her electrician husband, Anthony, were happy when they moved to Melbourne for work, and lived in the eastern suburbs and then the Dandenongs, the lure of home became too strong once their daughter, Grace, was born.

“It wasn’t that there was anything wrong with our lifestyle in the city,” she explains.

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