Woodgreen gentrification has began

CLAPTON

Generali wrote: »

If two of the top four stories are about road accidents then I think I'm living in a pretty safe city! Especially given that the SMH covers the whole city, not just a bit of it.

Throwing petrol bombs at homeless people is a bit nuts!! Still, it sounds like the police nicked them which is good news.

Local news is always more grissly : its just that I don't know Sydney so don't know where to look.

Generali

CLAPTON wrote: »

Local news is always more grissly : its just that I don't know Sydney so don't know where to look.

St Mary's, Mount Druitt, Rooty Hill, Blacktown, Paramatta (to a lesser extent) and the area past Campbelltown before you leave Sydney, places like Minto. Basically west and southwest Sydney is the dodgy area, plus Kings Cross in the centre where the petrol bomb story is from.

In Sydney we simply don't have those same really horrible areas like in London. Crime is kept in check so we don't see those places that people really get away with almost whatever they want.

This is the Mt Druitt/St Marys/Rooty Hill paper:
http://www.stmarysstar.com.au/

Blacktown:
http://www.blacktownsun.com.au/

Parramatta:
http://www.parramattasun.com.au/

Campbelltown:
http://www.macarthuradvertiser.com.au/

The really rough places in Aus are some of the nastier country towns. Some of those are pretty hairy with some big racial problems between the indigenous population and the more recent settlers, a moribund economy often and little to do other than drink and take drugs (if you have no imagination).

Alice Springs news:
http://www.alicespringsnews.com.au/

lisyloo

Apparently the grass isn't always greener :-)


Boomerang poms flee Australia's traffic and TV.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-36299682

Generali

lisyloo wrote: »

Apparently the grass isn't always greener :-)


Boomerang poms flee Australia's traffic and TV.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-36299682

The traffic isn't horrendous in Sydney, Brisbane or Canberra, the cities I know best in Australia. The TV though....hmmmm.

TBH I suspect that the problem with Jo and others is that they see Australia as being a giant, sub-tropical Isle of Wight rather than being a different country to the UK with a different culture. I was a member of an ex-pat group when I first got here and you could see pretty quickly the people that were going to make a decent fist of things and those that weren't going to stay.

The ones that were going to head back were the ones that constantly moaned that there was no NHS (ignoring the fact that their taxes were much lower so they could afford to pay for their own healthcare), that they had to go to a different shop to buy booze rather than buying it with their bog roll and that Aussies thought they were a bunch of moaning minnies (Aussies don't use the phrase moaning minnies).

The ones that stayed were those that saw that there were some things better about Aus and some things better about the UK and in the round both places were imperfect countries with people that are just trying to get on. But Sydney has better weather

padington

Generali wrote: »

The traffic isn't horrendous in Sydney, Brisbane or Canberra, the cities I know best in Australia. The TV though....hmmmm.

TBH I suspect that the problem with Jo and others is that they see Australia as being a giant, sub-tropical Isle of Wight rather than being a different country to the UK with a different culture. I was a member of an ex-pat group when I first got here and you could see pretty quickly the people that were going to make a decent fist of things and those that weren't going to stay.

The ones that were going to head back were the ones that constantly moaned that there was no NHS (ignoring the fact that their taxes were much lower so they could afford to pay for their own healthcare), that they had to go to a different shop to buy booze rather than buying it with their bog roll and that Aussies thought they were a bunch of moaning minnies (Aussies don't use the phrase moaning minnies).

The ones that stayed were those that saw that there were some things better about Aus and some things better about the UK and in the round both places were imperfect countries with people that are just trying to get on. But Sydney has better weather

The people are weird though, slightly brain washed, it's like a mono culture where anything other than a minor challenge of the norm is met with a small melt down.

Also the biggest wingers are the aussies, by far. That accusation is just a national projection of their own neurosis.

Minus the backward people though it is a lovely country, I give you that.

Generali

padington wrote: »

The people are weird though, slightly brain washed, it's like a mono culture where anything other than a minor challenge of the norm is met with a small melt down.

Also the biggest wingers are the aussies, by far. That accusation is just a national projection of their own neurosis.

Minus the backward people though it is a lovely country, I give you that.

Yeah, the absolutely hatred of anything that is in any way different gets my goat, it really annoys me and is the reason that I just can't see myself be buried here.

A country that still moans about a test series that finished over 80 years ago clearly has a problem with whinging!

Aussies aren't all the same though. I work with some decent people, Aussies with inquiring minds and that are thoughtful.

No place is an Eden and I am very glad to be away from all that class-ridden nonsense that Brits take with them. It's all so 18th Century.

padington

Generali wrote: »

No place is an Eden and I am very glad to be away from all that class-ridden nonsense that Brits take with them. It's all so 18th Century.

Amen to that

Jonbvn

I think we can agree that the UK and Oz both have their good and bad points. Which is better, is entirely a subjective opinion.

Generali

Jonbvn wrote: »

I think we can agree that the UK and Oz both have their good and bad points. Which is better, is entirely a subjective opinion.

Exactly.

Both are successful prosperous countries. Which is better really depends on your tolerance for crap weather. For many Aussies that move to the UK, the weather really is a deal breaker and something that causes considerable angst. TBH I'm not sure I could live through more than one or two more British winters. They're so bloody long.

mystic_trev

Generali wrote: »

No place is an Eden

In the Bible it says God created the World in six days, and on the seventh day he rested. It has recently been discovered that this was not the case. On the afternoon of the seventh he got bored and created Wood Green.:A