Food, Drink & Dining Out The Perth Thread - Part 2

[Upgrayedd]

Been in Sydney since Wednesday for work

Who in their right mind would want to live here?

 

[Beerfish]

I didn't mind Sydney but yeah I couldn't live there if only for no AFL.

 

[ioppolo]

Perth is plenty big enough for me

 

[Upgrayedd]

Live 5m from a show I'm setting up for the bbq beef fest

Air bnb tiny 2 bedroom flat . Worth 900k

Entertainment center 15m walk. 15m drive

Trip to Bunnings. 20m to get park. 15m walk from air bnb

 

[Scotland]

I've only been to Sydney once. Looks pretty and I was in a nice hotel in North Sydney but my quality of life would be way better here than living there. Pay me $2-300k+ a year and Sydney would be great, but that's not feasible for 99.9% of people.

For $500k in Perth you can get a family home in some bland new outer suburb or somewhere out towards Midland or Armadale, or you could get a flat somewhere closer in. Hell, if you have to live in Cottesloe you can for that. It won't be a palace but it's a roof and 4 walls. For a single on a professional wage or a couple that's manageable. In Sydney $500k gets you nothing. You want to live in Bondi? You're battling to get into anything under $1m. People end up living in shitholes out in the West and spending 1-2 hours twice a day commuting. **** that. Even if you are just spending a year there renting a room you'll still be paying a small fortune.

 

[Billy ray]

Doing my annual visit to sydney later this week to remind me why i live in the best place in australia and why big cities are no longer for me

 

[Silent Alarm]

Eh if you won the lotto and a place came up in North Sydney, or the inner west, or ya know... overlooking the most beautiful natural harbour in the world, you'd probably consider it. I would hate to live in New York in my life as I'd be another rat who lives there for the vibe, the shows, the happenin' things but too overworked and poor to afford to do any of it. But if I was a millionaire I'd live in the lower East Side. ****in oath I would.

Sydney gets really hot though. Really hot. And not much breeze. But there's some nice parts of it. People are sort of ****heads though. I'd also be happy with just going to the one or two footy games a year. Plus they'd pay you to attend Giants games.

 

[Scotland]

If you're a millionaire then you can have a sweet life anywhere, just a matter of what your priorities are.

For normal people who have to earn a living different places have relative sweet spots. Perth would've been pretty mint in the 80s and 90s when it was cheap to live and not too congested.

 

[Upgrayedd]

Dont get me started on how this place has been designed.....

 

[Plugger35]

I went on a WA junior rugby tour to Sydney where we got billeted out with families, we stayed with some mega rich North shore families there.

Like a 5 storey house on the waterfront that had an intercom, they would page you on the intercom to come to dinner because the house was so big.

 

[Scotland]

Doesn't sound like the sort of thing you'd expect in Sydney rugby circles at all........

My mates went on a school tour to NZ. Their private school first XV was flogged by the equivalent of their 15 year olds team so badly they needed to stop at half time.

 

[Plugger35]

We played a game against Pittwater House, the whole school turned out to watch the game, they even had their own cheerleaders.

We had private school boys in our team from Scotch and Wesley and even they were laughing at the sheer opulence of this school.

 

[DREAM TEAM BUFF]

Sunday Times had another 2 pages about how safe/unsafe Perth is next topic please

 

[craigos]

We played a game against Pittwater House, the whole school turned out to watch the game, they even had their own cheerleaders.

We had private school boys in our team from Scotch and Wesley and even they were laughing at the sheer opulence of this school.

Is this irony? Sorry, was public schooled so can't tell.

 

[Plugger35]

Is this irony? Sorry, was public schooled so can't tell.

I was public schooled too but I still learnt how to use big words like opulence to pretend I'm well educated.

 

[kane249]

I was public schooled too but I still learnt how to use big words like opulence to pretend I'm well educated.

It's a perfectly cromulent word

 

[twotooto]

I saw a bad case of Fuel Derangement Syndrome(FDS) at the Gull in Como today.

The line had backed up so much that cars were lining up - in the pouring rain - on Canning Hwy just to get in and save that 3 cents a litre.

 

[Scotland]

I have a 2 cars in a lane policy. Most servos have bowsers in groups of 2, typically with 3 lanes so you can theoretically refuel 6 cars at the same time. If every lane has 2 cars in it, I'm going somewhere else.

 

[Beerfish]

I saw a bad case of Fuel Derangement Syndrome(FDS) at the Gull in Como today.

The line had backed up so much that cars were lining up - in the pouring rain - on Canning Hwy just to get in and save that 3 cents a litre.

Yep saw that. Like that most Mondays.

lol @ Gull though. Hasn't been that for years now but it's how I still think of it too.

 

[twotooto]

Yep saw that. Like that most Mondays.

lol @ Gull though. Hasn't been that for years now but it's how I still think of it too.

Were you the guy in the silver Volvo with the golf hat on the back seat shelf?

 

[DREAM TEAM BUFF]

just to get in and save that 3 cents a litre.

Some what pointless

 

[twotooto]

Some what pointless

It's a sickness. If only I had an M60 mounted on the front dash. Darwin's Law ftw.

 

[Off The Couch]

I saw a bad case of Fuel Derangement Syndrome(FDS) at the Gull in Como today.

The line had backed up so much that cars were lining up - in the pouring rain - on Canning Hwy just to get in and save that 3 cents a litre.

Same out at Ashfield (I think that’s what it’s called) on Guildford road this arvo - peak hour and there’s a queue heading back towards the city and side street blocked

Personally I couldn’t be bothered waiting that long when it’s wet and cold - actually I wouldn’t wait - ever

 

[Beerfish]

Were you the guy in the silver Volvo with the golf hat on the back seat shelf?

lol no I wouldn't be caught dead in a Volvo golf hat on the back shelf or otherwise.

Personally I couldn’t be bothered waiting that long when it’s wet and cold - actually I wouldn’t wait - ever

Same here. My fuel light actually came on yesterday but I filled up this morning. Paid $1.72/L for 95 but I was in and out in 5 minutes and that's me for a month.

 

[Big Cox 88]

Same out at Ashfield (I think that’s what it’s called) on Guildford road this arvo - peak hour and there’s a queue heading back towards the city and side street blocked

Personally I couldn’t be bothered waiting that long when it’s wet and cold - actually I wouldn’t wait - ever

It's the same at the Caltex on North Lake Road and Berrigan Drive every Monday. All the other petrol stations along that strip are only 3-5 cents more per litre ffs. Isn't your time worth more than 3 cents a litre people?