Melbournites - I need your help

[sbagman]

Well obviously this job thingy in Florence hasn't worked out for me and after a stint of travelling, with no more ideas springing into mind, I'm heading back to Melbourne.

As the time to return edges closes, I'm getting more and more nervous about it. I have this bad feeling that everyone my age is doing 'mature' stuff like getting married and having babies and buying houses in Taylor's Lakes and building pergolas and all that sort of rubbish. This is my version of hell. I want to go out lots, have lots of friends to do so with, have a small apartment somewhere central (eventually), and spend my money on stupidity like backpacking through some obscure country.

This is possible, right? Not EVERYONE in Melbourne has decided to settle down and get a mortgage and buy a big shiny car that is far too expensive? Right? RIGHT?

(If the answer is no, I'm moving to Budapest).

Alleviate my fears. Tell me I've nothing to worry about.

Cheers,
Me.

 

[robbieando]

Not the case at all. Your plans should be OK

 

[ozzult]

But you're bald anyway, so you can't have a good time.

You might as well find a minger wife, and settle down and have a few minger baldie kids.

 

[Docker_Brat]

Originally posted by ozzult
But you're bald anyway, so you can't have a good time.

You might as well find a minger wife, and settle down and have a few minger baldie kids.

What he said.

Once you go bald it's all over, can't go out and have a good time when you're bald, especially around young people. You'll stand out like dogs cods.

I'm glad I'm not bald, I'd have to had settled down and married the first slapper I picked up at the local pub. Can't go out and score when you're bald.

 

[Slax]

hey mate you'll come home and discover luxuries you've forgotten about and enjoy. Open space, clean water, not all the bloody American tourists who refuse to speak anything but American English.

There is no place like home but there are things about other towns you'll miss. European cities have a character that doesn't exist in Australia. sbagman you know what I mean and I can't put my finger on but it does trap you there but home is always where the heart is.

 

[lioness]

NO sbags, trust me not EVERYONE young in Melbourne is settled down in the outer suburbs. *shudders*

 

[Captain Sensible]

Come back Sbaggers. All is forgiven. There is no live music left but the clubs are still jumping.

 

[Darky]

Originally posted by sbagman

This is possible, right? Not EVERYONE in Melbourne has decided to settle down and get a mortgage and buy a big shiny car that is far too expensive? Right? RIGHT?

(If the answer is no, I'm moving to Budapest).

Send us a postcard.

 

[Spidergirl~RiCkChiCk]

Originally posted by sbagman

As the time to return edges closes, I'm getting more and more nervous about it. I have this bad feeling that everyone my age is doing 'mature' stuff like getting married and having babies and buying houses in Taylor's Lakes and building pergolas and all that sort of rubbish. This is my version of hell. I want to go out lots, have lots of friends to do so with, have a small apartment somewhere central (eventually), and spend my money on stupidity like backpacking through some obscure country.

This is possible, right? Not EVERYONE in Melbourne has decided to settle down and get a mortgage and buy a big shiny car that is far too expensive? Right? RIGHT?

If people are doing this just to keep up with the trend then there is something wrong not to mention a waste of money.

 

[you_idiot]

Originally posted by lioness22
NO sbags, trust me not EVERYONE young in Melbourne is settled down in the outer suburbs. *shudders*

Mind you, there's always Ballarat, if the urban sprawl extends this far.

Bear in mind that I myself changed my life and lifestyle to move here from California (and from a city over a million people, mind you), and I didn't have any second thoughts then and I don't have any second thoughts now. And Melbourne will always be an option for me in the future, in some way, shape or form.

I have no regrets... after all, I have a good life here in Victoria.

 

[lioness]

Originally posted by you_idiot
Mind you, there's always Ballarat, if the urban sprawl extends this far.

Noooooooooooooooo not Ballarat. I find anything more than 15km from the CBD scary enough thanks.

 

[you_idiot]

Originally posted by lioness22
Noooooooooooooooo not Ballarat. I find anything more than 15km from the CBD scary enough thanks.

Spoken like a true big-city girl-- this, coming from a converted big-city guy.

Seriously, though, Melbourne is just a 90-minute train ride away from me, on the V-Line. By car, probably slightly less. Very manageable, as far as I'm concerned.

Nothing wrong with living in the country, if that's what your options are. We're still somewhat city-fied here.

 

[lioness]

Originally posted by you_idiot
Spoken like a true big-city girl-- this, coming from a converted big-city guy.

Seriously, though, Melbourne is just a 90-minute train ride away from me, on the V-Line. By car, probably slightly less. Very manageable, as far as I'm concerned.

Nothing wrong with living in the country, if that's what your options are. We're still somewhat city-fied here.

Yeah well I lived in the country for 8 years, and the REAL country not just a big regional city close to Melbourne. I honestly hated every day of it.

 

[skilts]

sbagman, you needn't woory, Taylor's Lakes no longer exists. It fell victim to a hideous nuclear accident. It's just that nobody has noticed yet, or nobody has been able to tell the difference. As a mate of mine refers to these suburbs of houses as, "garages with windows."

Stay in Florence if you can afford it. Get yourself an Italian girl.

Oops, not that there is anything wrong with those fine Australian lassies.

 

[Dan26]

Originally posted by sbagman
I have this bad feeling that everyone my age is doing 'mature' stuff like getting married and having babies and buying houses in Taylor's Lakes and building pergolas and all that sort of rubbish.

Not me. That's my version of hell too. Stuff getting married and having kids. I want to do my thing, not what I've been told is the "normal" path.

 

[Nandrolone Stam]

Re: Re: Melbournites - I need your help

Originally posted by Dan26
Not me. That's my version of hell too. Stuff getting married and having kids. I want to do my thing, not what I've been told is the "normal" path.

Was it DanSelectivity, DanLogic, DanMaths or DanPuter that calculated that one for you?

 

[sbagman]

Originally posted by ozzult
But you're bald anyway, so you can't have a good time.

You might as well find a minger wife, and settle down and have a few minger baldie kids.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that.

Can I find minger wives in Melbourne?

On second thought, don't bother answering that...

 

[Darky]

Re: Re: Melbournites - I need your help

Originally posted by Dan26
Stuff getting married and having kids. I want to do my thing, not what I've been told is the "normal" path.

What - live with your parents until you're 40?

 

[knuckles]

I wouldn't leave Italy if I had the choice. Melb has its share of suburbia, but I have seen far worse (e.g. Sydney). Rent a condo in Fitzroy or St.Kilda near the action and you can walk to all the gigs. During the day you can join the bitter, twisted goaty beard brigade drinking over priced coffee and blaming everyone for their woes, but themselves (very Italian thing to do).


Hey Sbagman, know any good Italian real estate websites?

 

[jim boy]

Originally posted by knuckles
I wouldn't leave Italy if I had the choice. Melb has its share of suburbia, but I have seen far worse (e.g. Sydney). Rent a condo in Fitzroy or St.Kilda near the action and you can walk to all the gigs. During the day you can join the bitter, twisted goaty beard brigade drinking over priced coffee and blaming everyone for their woes, but themselves (very Italian thing to do).

Have to agree with Knuckles on this one. Leave Melbourne to when you're tired and bitter. In the meantime grab your backpack and head out, spend two or three months in a small Italian town, maybe on the banks of Lake Como and just chill out. If not Italy then maybe Scotland, Canada or the US. Whatever you do, don't leave the Northern hemisphere until the summer is over. Why not go to Stockholm, the swedish lasses wear very short skirts at this time of year. Gotta remember the old axiom, it's better to regret the things that you have done, then the things you haven't.

 

[sbagman]

Now now boys, I ain't leaving the northern hemisphere until october, so no worries there. But I ain't staying here for another year due to my work situation and the fact I don't have any friends here... a year of total isolation is enough for me.

I'm thinking AFTER this year... it's just too bloody hard starting again in another city. What if I end up in another place like this, where being a foreigner is like having a disease, and all the Italians tell me they've made their friends in primary school, and don't have time for any new ones?

The main reason I'm going back to Melbourne is family and the few friends that remain (all married though).

Travel for a few months is fine, I've loads of places I'm wanting to visit. But staying in Florence is NOT an option.