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The West Australian

They’re the tightly held spots in our State that locals don’t really want you to know about.

Pleasantville suburbs or townships where ‘when you buy there — you die there’.

Across WA that place is Morangup, a hamlet on the cosy side of Toodyay on the edge of the Wheatbelt where residents say the air just smells better. And locals do not move.

Read the full article at The West Australian.

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