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.
Surely rural Washington State is better than, like, Seattle or Spokane, though, no..?
Like I hear rural Oregon is reasonably “based”, on most counts. Is it not the same further north..?
But yeah, also, milk cow is right - WA is Western Australia, as well!
A lot of rural Washington is either upper middle class, crazy, or a front for drugs. I'm not even joking.
Othello is a great town, but only if you speak Spanish. It's basically Jalisco.
Yakima and it's towns are all a front for drugs. If you do anything near the warehouse areas, you will suddenly be stopped by police or be shot at by drug lords.
Deer Valley is really nice, and I really like it, but you need to be upper middle class to live there. It is gorgeous though. One guy does a giant star wars Christmas display. They have cosplayers and films being projected on walls. The Walmart is nice as well.
Sedrow Woolley is wonderful, but the locals act like hobbits. Jobs aren't the greatest. This is a place where starting a fire takes work because everything is covered in water. You have to mow your walls.
Other towns like Cheney, North Bend, and Sprague are nice but dying. Unless you live in specific areas, it's all falling apart. The state treats these areas like they need to die.
Rural Oregon is similar, but meaner. I hate Pendleton. Brownsville just makes me sad. I was hit by a motorhome in Halsey. Roseburg is deathly quiet. The people only talk if they have a joke or small comment. Gravity Falls is in the Blue Mountains and accurate.