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zarathustar
October 12, 2019 at 4:22 pm
I just returned from a road trip from Newcastle, down through Sydney, Canberra, then Melbourne — most of my time spent in Melbourne (considering moving there.. fallback is just go chill overseas for a while).

I couldn’t believe, like Newcastle, how screwed these cities look. I had some idea, based on all the bear pron, how the broader economy was doing.. and was getting frustrated with people blaming all the local economic woes on the light rail and apartment construction reducing foot traffic here in Newy.

But seeing these cities and surrounding towns in person just confirmed what I thought.

Plenty of commercial RE for lease or sale everywhere, and a metric shite tonne of (largely) resi construction with some mixed use / commercial.

Things look pretty dire

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Les
October 12, 2019 at 7:13 pm
Yep. It’s vomit inducing really. Australian cities are well and truly ruined – physically, culturally, environmentally, in every aspect. It will continue to get worse. A pathetic shame really. The country could have had amazing cities.

Immigration madness to pack as many bodies as possible into cities, property development/real estate greed/obsessed parasite culture that is infected all levels of government and the psyche of at least two generations and all newcomers. Governments hell bent on the sellout of Australian assets and real estate to foreigners. A university system totally reliant on foreign students with poor English. The list is endless as to why Australian cities are a massive and permanent short."

Wow looking good...for a shithole

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