The Perth Thread

[Teriyakicat]

There's just a lot more of everything. You could start going to all the restaurants and bars in the city alone and by the time you'd been to them all the first ones you'd been to would have changed. Lots of shows and exhibitions and shops. Perth is a big small city if that makes sense. It has all of the disadvantages with very few of the benefits of a big big city.. if you follow. The congestion over there doesn't really seem to matter as much because the public transport system actually works.

..... sometimes.....


.....until it doesn't.......

 

[Bacon Warrior]

Think I drove past another suicide on the freeway tonight. Train stopped just before Whitfords, copper just pulling up in the northbound emergency lane.

Hope it wasn't.

 

[WCErevival]

So we were talking about KFC before. I just drove past the one on Canning Hwy and there was about 20 cars in the line and it went all the way back to the entrance on North Lake rd. It will literally take some of them over an hour to get food. Why bother.

 

[Teriyakicat]

So we were talking about KFC before. I just drove past the one on Canning Hwy and there was about 20 cars in the line and it went all the way back to the entrance on North Lake rd. It will literally take some of them over an hour to get food. Why bother.

That place is as slow as a wet week!!

 

[Kram]

That place is as slow as a wet week!!

You of all people shouldn't be eating that rubbish!!!

 

[Milang_Panthers]

My family lives in Melbourne. Their roads are crap compared to ours, the congestion is worse and the infrastructure is years behind their population growth. Public transport is a joke, as well.
I can understand your "nothing to do" argument but I think the rest of it is just a bit "the grass is greener" and you might find yourself quite a bit unhappier moving over East. Plus it's frigging freezing over there! (Most of the year around, anyway.)

Maybe go and spend a month there in winter- just to test the waters. EDIT- just read your later post in which you said you might try it for 6+ months. That's a great idea.

Oh- and how close are you to family and friends? That's another deciding factor. A very important one. (Especially when you start having kids, if you haven't got them already.)

I actually really miss a nice cold winter since I moved to Perth (probably the only one here lol).

 

[Freofalcon]

My family lives in Melbourne. Their roads are crap compared to ours, the congestion is worse and the infrastructure is years behind their population growth. Public transport is a joke, as well.
I can understand your "nothing to do" argument but I think the rest of it is just a bit "the grass is greener" and you might find yourself quite a bit unhappier moving over East. Plus it's frigging freezing over there! (Most of the year around, anyway.)

Maybe go and spend a month there in winter- just to test the waters. EDIT- just read your later post in which you said you might try it for 6+ months. That's a great idea.

Oh- and how close are you to family and friends? That's another deciding factor. A very important one. (Especially when you start having kids, if you haven't got them already.)

I visit Melbourne once or twice a year and I never see this. My mate lives in Keilor East and getting into town is always a breeze whether by car or public transport. Even visiting his In Laws in Sunshine is just a ring road away.

 

[Teriyakicat]

You of all people shouldn't be eating that rubbish!!!

It's ok, Kram. I hate fast food. Especially fast chickens! lol
Seriously- we don't buy takeaway chicken.
(Haven't done for over 10 years, anyways.)

 

[Teriyakicat]

I actually really miss a nice cold winter since I moved to Perth (probably the only one here lol).

You're weird!!!
lol

 

[Teriyakicat]

I visit Melbourne once or twice a year and I never see this. My mate lives in Keilor East and getting into town is always a breeze whether by car or public transport. Even visiting his In Laws in Sunshine is just a ring road away.

I was over there for a few weeks a couple of years ago- western suburbs- and there were old broken roads everywhere. I thought ours were much better maintained. Guess it was perhaps just a local problem?

 

[Scotland]

So we were talking about KFC before. I just drove past the one on Canning Hwy and there was about 20 cars in the line and it went all the way back to the entrance on North Lake rd. It will literally take some of them over an hour to get food. Why bother.

Alfred Cove KFC needs its own Facebook page.

Armadale KFC is a shitload better, and I think it used to have the 'all you can eat' back in the day. Cannington certainly did.

 

[Scotland]

Most of the roads and rail in Perth are fine. Better than Melbourne in plenty of cases.

The problem is we have so few major arterial roads and only 5 train lines. I'd love to see the stats of how many people use the Kwinana/Mitchell Fwy each day and the Mandurah/Butler train line. Spread out and centralised, it's a recipe for congestion.

 

[The Speaker]

Melbourne trains are expansive, but that's because they built the lines 140 years ago. In terms of quality, our train network is the best in the country.

 

[Scotland]

Melbourne trains are expansive, but that's because they built the lines 140 years ago. In terms of quality, our train network is the best in the country.

Yep. Melbourne has a much better network, but our trains are more modern and reliable.

A lot of the infrastructure projects going on in Perth are due to poor planning. Northbridge tunnel, sinking the rail lines etc. would've been a hell of a lot easier to do before the city was built... about the only thing going for the new suburbs popping up North of Joondalup is that the train line is extending as the suburbs are built.

 

[ioppolo]

I still don't understand why anyone would wanna live Northeast, inland from Two Rocks and Yanchep.

Places like Baldivis are fine since you have Mandurah, Yunderup & Pinjarra not too far further South. You don't have much North of Two Rocks.

 

[Beerfish]

I still don't understand why anyone would wanna live Northeast, inland from Two Rocks and Yanchep.

Places like Baldivis are fine since you have Mandurah, Yunderup & Pinjarra not too far further South. You don't have much North of Two Rocks.

I know a couple that were living in Belmont in a unit and all of a sudden decided to sell up and move to Ellenbrook because they found a house they really loved. After a couple of years of commuting some ridiculous amount of time to their places of employment south of the river they put the place on the market and are heading back south. I was dumbfounded at the time that nobody had told them what they were letting themselves in for by moving there.

 

[ioppolo]

I know a couple that were living in Belmont in a unit and all of a sudden decided to sell up and move to Ellenbrook because they found a house they really loved. After a couple of years of commuting some ridiculous amount of time to their places of employment south of the river they put the place on the market and are heading back south. I was dumbfounded at the time that nobody had told them what they were letting themselves in for by moving there.

Surely they would realise how long a drive that would be work wise?

If I was moving, I'd wouldn't move more than a 30-40 min drive from work.

 

[Beerfish]

Surely they would realise how long a drive that would be work wise?

If I was moving, I'd wouldn't move more than a 30-40 min drive from work.

Yeah I just couldn't understand it at the time and tbh I was surprised they lasted as long as they did. Some people..

 

[Scotland]

LOL Ellenbrook.

'Oh but they're putting in a train line'.

Suuuuure they are.

 

[Big Cox 88]

Imagine how awesome a high speed train line down to Busselton/Margaret River and then on to Albany. 1 hour to Busselton 2.5 hours to Albany. Based at Cockburn station. Would be great for tourism down there and could also be used for freight.

 

[Kram]

Any regular drive over about 20 minutes to a workplace would do my head in. Last year of my apprenticeship with the group scheme they gave us a couple crap jobs in Welshpool when I lived in Duncraig Ridiculous when there was heaps of work anywhere at the time and near where I live. I just deliberately tried to get moved on by calling in sick at least 1 day a week, worked eventually Living in the country is pretty shit but one good thing is that you can get away with only getting out of bed 20 minutes before you start.

 

[Bacon Warrior]

Imagine how awesome a high speed train line down to Busselton/Margaret River and then on to Albany. 1 hour to Busselton 2.5 hours to Albany. Based at Cockburn station. Would be great for tourism down there and could also be used for freight.

Aren't they building a high speed train to Australind or Bunbury? No reason why that couldn't be extended down to Busselton.

 

[Off The Couch]

Be nice if they considered the North for a change rather than just sending everything down Busselton Margaret river way

 

[kfc1]

Be nice if they considered the North for a change rather than just sending everything down Busselton Margaret river way

There's already a train line to South Geraldton

 

[The_Reaper]

Aren't they building a high speed train to Australind or Bunbury? No reason why that couldn't be extended down to Busselton.

A lot of money for little gain