I'd like to suggest a new status symbol: The lawnmower.
Why? Quite simple really. To own a lawnmower means you've gotta' own lawn. Lawn in Sydney is expensive. The bigger your lawn, the more expensive your mower, the greater your success*
As follows:
1st place: RIDE ON MOWER
Made it big time. The bad boy of lawn mowing.
Significant lawn maintenance.
2nd Place: REGULAR PETROL MOWERYou've made it. Enough lawn to require
a decent hour or two at the helm.
3rd Place: HAND HELD MOWER
Either: environmental darling OR wish to use mowing lawn as stay-fit exercise OR (more likely) starting out and are otherwise completely broke from trying to pull togther every last cent for your home deposit (which included, lawn). Nonetheless, to be congratulated.
* And yes, I am happy to admit that for the purposes of this entry, I am choosing to define success in purely materialistic, possession based, ego-centric terms.
