Nope. Not at all. Booked it back in summer. I'm not that much of an optimist.
Melbourne - What am I missing?
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Nope. Not at all. Booked it back in summer. I'm not that much of an optimist.
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Blue Sky, Sunshine & handbags at half-mast.
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Love living in Melbourne. It has a great balance. A little bit of everything. The weather isn't as bad as people say, considering other places around the world.
The only state I'd considser living in other than Melbourne is Tasmania.
The only state I'd considser living in other than Melbourne is Tasmania.
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I live an hour from Melbourne, on the coast. Best of both worlds. Melbourne is only an hour away, go up regularly for social or sporting things, but don't have to put up with the bullshit. It's a great city, especially when you live an hour from it on the coast.
And what's this no beaches garbage? Bells is 15 minutes from me and the whole of this coastline has fantastic beaches. Because you don't have a beach on Collins st there's no beaches?
And what's this no beaches garbage? Bells is 15 minutes from me and the whole of this coastline has fantastic beaches. Because you don't have a beach on Collins st there's no beaches?
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Regardless of GOR/bells, etc- who cares. Some sand, some water. That's all a beach is, as long as there's no rubbish floating around in it (hello Altona im looking in your direction) a beach is a beach.
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Not as many sharks either..
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Yeah I don't think you can count Bells or the surf coast as part of Melbourne.
I much prefer a nice lake.
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Surf Coast Shire isn't Melbourne.
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Went to St Kilda Beach on a really hot and crowded day years ago. Couldn't ******* believe how much rubbish was around.
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Really think the trouble is more like Texting and Ice/Drug use to be honest. I mean only yesterday and today I saw two HORRENDOUE Accidents. Station Street Chelsea yesterday two cars stationary minding their own business when a Feral looking guy with woman next to him just absolutely slammed up the a^se of a the car in front at high speed with such force it caved his Ford falcon in and The poor girl in front had a Nissan and the front was all that was left and it was pushed up to hit the car in front of that. I mean FFS you cant slow down and go round the inside or pull up slowly. Then today on the Peninsula link a smallish truck ran up the back of a Jims carpet cleaning van, So bad only the front was left. And the cab of the truck was ruined caved in and if the driver didn't die I'm guessing he wished he was dead. I must also mention this morn a guy on a Harley tried to show off in Parkdale and nearly lost it in the main street. All of these things I saw while on a bicycle. It just makes me shake my head. Place is full of F^cken idiots, and you can be minding your own business and be injured or dead the next.
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The people in Melbourne drive better than Perth in terms of courtesy.
It's like driving miss daisy which is nice when you don't know your way around.
It's like driving miss daisy which is nice when you don't know your way around.
i hate the beach to be perfectly honest. it's meant to be a lazy, leisurely place but it always felt like a chore to me. sunscreen, sitting in the sun, showering all the salt off, going home feeling weird. not for me.
Not much. Victorians are pretty much the worst people on Earth. Melbourne is on the southern coastline for godsakes. What kind of city faces the southern ocean? That's just depressing, facing shear nothingness, progressively stormier conditions, then Freezetarctica.
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God it must seem like a scene from a Mad Max movie there then.
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My father is very very sick with heart trouble and desperately needs surgery, and is blind in one eye now. God forbid he goes in the short to longer term I will defiantly be looking at moving at least an hour out of town.
Been doing so for a while I'm not at all fussed as weather it is by the sea or not. Wouldn't bother me to be honest.
It's been a problem for years before ice and texting were ever really a problem. Australians have no idea how to merge properly, far too many people tailgate and nobody has any idea what the right lane is actually for, they sit in it for kilometres and it totally *s the traffic flow.Really think the trouble is more like Texting and Ice/Drug use to be honest. I mean only yesterday and today I saw two HORRENDOUE Accidents. Station Street Chelsea yesterday two cars stationary minding their own business when a Feral looking guy with woman next to him just absolutely slammed up the a^se of a the car in front at high speed with such force it caved his Ford falcon in and The poor girl in front had a Nissan and the front was all that was left and it was pushed up to hit the car in front of that. I mean FFS you cant slow down and go round the inside or pull up slowly. Then today on the Peninsula link a smallish truck ran up the back of a Jims carpet cleaning van, So bad only the front was left. And the cab of the truck was ruined caved in and if the driver didn't die I'm guessing he wished he was dead. I must also mention this morn a guy on a Harley tried to show off in Parkdale and nearly lost it in the main street. All of these things I saw while on a bicycle. It just makes me shake my head. Place is full of F^cken idiots, and you can be minding your own business and be injured or dead the next.
As a nation we're a bunch of woeful drivers.
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Speak for yer self.
And if we're talking crap beaches, then Pommy-land is surrounded by em.....Rather sand between my toes than rocks & pollution.
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This.
VIC/NSW/QLD have the same accent.
WA has its own subtle difference which is the most recognisable.
SA is even more subtle but definately there when listening for it.
I can definitely tell if a person is from Perth or Adelaide after talking to them.
Whilst I agree South Australians have a more high brow accent than the rest, the Victorian accent is also different to the rest of Australia and very distinguishable. Their confusion in the usage and pronunciation of the letters A and E in a lot of words is a huge give away.
