Admittedly I’ve only been in Melbourne, so far, as I just got back (unfortunately things have worked out that way, and dragged me back here…), but this is now, on a technicality, Australia’s largest city, and it feels awful… Like, I cannot for the life of me understand what possesses over five million people to want to move to/live in this shithole. But I’ve never liked Melbourne, so maybe I’m just jaded…
However it honestly feels like things are on the brink of collapse, or implosion, here. I see that the city has, in many contexts (official and otherwise), *been given the dual name of “Narrm”, which is meaningless, made up, Abo shit. I see that the “activists” spent most of the last couple of months tearing down and defacing statues, and yelling and screaming about “tearing down the colony” and similar bullshit. And they’ve gained so much “institutional power” that councils are now scared to put those same statues back up, or just flat out refuse to do so…
I see that endless woke immigration has turned this place into little more than a Chinese vassal state, where fucking Mandarin is becoming almost as common as English (on signs and the like), and I see that sheer entitlement, an over-generous welfare state, and a failing education system has turned this place into essentially a country of entitled brats.
So yeah, much though I hate to admit it, Sweden clearly has its problems, but at least it feels like a vaguely functioning society still, where people still want to work and contribute to society (at least native Swedes, that is). It really doesn’t feel like that here, so much, anymore… Sadly.
Not that I would ever live in Melbourne anyway, but I don’t really see myself “repatriating” here, long-term. I just don’t like it enough to stay.
Though the weather is much better than almost anything I experienced in Sweden, and nature here is nice (I love the smell of eucalyptus, for one. I guess that’s in my blood) - I admit that much.
But fuck, as a society, “we’re” becoming just like much of Canada, or Blue States in the US, now. And that’s rather sad.
In live in the next capital city above Melbourne and i also hate it here. Have for a while. It's not so much a shithole yet but I can be, and i think it will being a few years.
Lotta families living in ignorance because they're mostly aps. Lotta Nepalese and Sudanese moving in. Nepalese have basically taken over all the basic services and fast food. Quality of services have declined.
I know because I also work with some Nepalese under me now and they are brain dead in several ways. Already cost the company thousands in losses
On the Nepalese - yeah, they’ve unironically ruined both the pub scene, and the private education sector, in my home city (you know the one. The one with the mountain, lol), and the fucking Sudanese have made my hometown (not city, even more local) so unsafe that I no longer go to local soccer matches, for fear of them stoking shit…
Or at least that’s how it was a year or so ago. I hate to think how it is now…
Lol, yeah, I’m currently sitting in a (classic) pub, and the tattooed, pierced, dyed-haired (but still very attractive) barmaid is bitching about the place to the largely lesbian clientele, and talking about moving to your (Harbour?) city…
So there is hope yet, if even she can see that “the People’s Republic of Greater Brunswick” has gone to shit, lol…
Some Nepalese bought out the Lawson near where Im living in Japan and in just avoid it now. Always trying to overcharge me "by mistake", not removing out of date stock, and always pestering me to buy a curry bun or some shit.
Sorry to hear. They just bring down any place they go to.
Update to this: bartender really took a dislike to me for some reason (I don’t think I did anything to warrant that, lol, she just didn’t like me), and holy fuck do I dislike this city in general…
Hasn’t changed that much in a year, in terms of businesses and infrastructure and the like, but just, the vibe, and the general… Crowded, immigrant-filled nature of it is just… Not me, I think. Not anymore…
dayum. sounds like you had an eventful night. and yep, to respond to all of the above .... yes 100% all gone to shit, all ruined.
Yeah, it was pretty eventful, lol. But it was actually all during the day/early evening, ahaha…
I had a plane to catch, outta that shithole, so I left before their “controversial left wing comedy night” (from what I overheard) began, ha.
But yeah, after she refused to even give me the Wi-Fi password (odd, I know), I pretty much decided “Right, fuck your, you’re not getting any more of my money,”, even if I coulda stayed longer…
And yes, agreed, 100%.
When even traditionally (relatively)“conservative” Brisbane and Perth are almost as woke as the others, you know we’re stuffed, sadly…