The Perth Thread

[LukasTheGreat]

Rockingham is under-rated. Had far worst times in the City, Armadale and Yangebub.

 

[BALKAN]

I dunno. I'd be pretty content to never set foot in Rockingham again.

 

[Gough]

What's Manning like these days?

 

[Silent Alarm]

They can go ahead but just don't merge Cockburn and Kwinana. I don't want to live in Kwinana.

Cockburn doesn't sound any better to the chicky babes, man

 

[Silent Alarm]

What's Manning like these days?

One of my best mates live in Como and it's alright, pretty suburban, no shitheads around, just an alright suburb. That other side of Curtin though is simply heinous

 

[Riseupaustralia]

It's all good Goffy. We are very tolerant and open minded in the wild wild west.

Gina Reinhart says hi.

And her dead Daddy.

 

[LukasTheGreat]

I dunno. I'd be pretty content to never set foot in Rockingham again.

You weren't complaining last night bby. <3

 

[Scotland]

One of my best mates live in Como and it's alright, pretty suburban, no shitheads around, just an alright suburb. That other side of Curtin though is simply heinous

Heinous?

East Vic Park, St James and Wilson aren't amazing but heinous is a bit of a stretch.

 

[Silent Alarm]

Heinous?

East Vic Park, St James and Wilson aren't amazing but heinous is a bit of a stretch.

Karawara on the same side is pretty depressing, but I always thought St James was a bit of a hole

 

[Scotland]

in a parallel universe Rockingham and surrounds are million dollar real estate.

Cockburn Sound would've been beautiful before we lumped a coal fired power station, oil refinery and bunch of heavy industry around it.

 

[Scotland]

Karawara on the same side is pretty depressing, but I always thought St James was a bit of a hole

They're nothing special, but gentrification is sweeping through.

An average suburb 5-10km from the CBD trumps one 25km out by a long way.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Heinous?

East Vic Park, St James and Wilson aren't amazing but heinous is a bit of a stretch.

There are some heinous patches though.

 

[smokingjacket]

There are some heinous patches though.

To be fair you could say this about every suburb in Perth from the richest to poorest all for different aesthetic reasons.

 

[gaskin]

Rockingham is under-rated. Had far worst times in the City, Armadale and Yangebub.

Rockingham is the inbred capital of WA, possibly even Australia. I have family in Warnboro and thank f*** we can skip going through Rockingham altogether. I agree on Armadale. When I played junior footy we used to play against Armadale and I feared for my life every time we had to play out there. Yangebup is okay though.

 

[kfc1]

Rockingham would be nigh on paradise if it wasn't for the people who live there

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Rockingham would be nigh on paradise if it wasn't for the people who live there

That's what they said about Mordor.

 

[Silent Alarm]

Yangy is absolutely horrible. I have a grandparent unlucky enough to find themselves there. It's depressing. Dead grass everywhere, smashed letterboxes, car bodies left deserted, just a hellhole. The people are even worse. If your neighbours aren't calling their nine year old kids mother****ers, hitting their wives, or not appearing for a week through meth binges, you've gotten lucky.

However, this extends to literally every proper city. Adelaide has his inbreds in the north, Sydney has its west, Melbourne has its fringes... it's not Perth's fault, but Yangebup is the kind of place you'd rather kill yourself than live in.

I will say this: I find Perth's 'middle' suburbs to be a lot more appealling than Melbourne's. I think your inner corridor in Melbourne is really nice; it's also got the benefit of being a stroll or two minute tram ride to the CBD, when a similar suburb in Perth would be a hassle to head to Hay Street for. But once you get to the areas below, like, Camberwell, let alone towards Vermont, you hit absolute shithole territory. They have those massive powerlines everywhere, huge main roads, nobody knows how to grow a nice, decent native garden, it's just depressing. I'd much rather be in debt and live in a place with character than a glum hole like that – even a place like Essendon, reportedly traditionally of your middle class persuasion and anecdotally full of private school girls, isn't a very naturally nice looking place, nor architecturally interesting or unique. I'm honestly an advocate for the inner west of Melbs; Footscray, Seddon, Yarraville are close to the city, full of dozens of social groups, cheap, and the houses are nice looking. Few good pubs and burger places opening over there too. But say this to a regular, eastern suburbs Melburnian and they'll laugh you off: despite it taking them 30 minutes to get to the pub you're telling them this at, from there house which is near nowhere but a HJs and shopping centre and a highway and pubs where people get flogged nightly, not monthly.

 

[Borry]

I grew up in Armadale, one of the poorer dirtier suburbs but hardly unsafe. Never have been a victim of crime and used to walk home at 1-2am from that train station every night on the piss till that time whilst at uni and have never felt unsafe. For all the crap poorer suburbs get in Perth and plenty of other places in Australia, there's hardly any suburb that's genuinely unsafe to the point of avoiding like the plague. We just have suburbs that have more lower income people than others.

The places full of drunken louts at the time they are in full force are the troublesome areas.

 

[Silent Alarm]

But how many young men seriously do get intimidated after a night of drinking? You walk through #entertainmenthotspots and suburbs near Adrian Bailey's and still walk in ignorant bliss. I don't know. But I wouldn't want to raise a family in Armadale. Sooner move to the country

 

[Scotland]

The feeling of safety is in part due to familiarity.

I'd feel a lot safer in Jull St mall than I would in the main street of Balga or some busted arse Northern suburb simply because I'm more familiar with the former.

 

[Sal_Paradise]

Rockingham is the inbred capital of WA, possibly even Australia. I have family in Warnboro and thank f*** we can skip going through Rockingham altogether. I agree on Armadale. When I played junior footy we used to play against Armadale and I feared for my life every time we had to play out there. Yangebup is okay though.

The first time I ever got punched in the face was playing junior footy against Armadale. G' times.

 

[Milang_Panthers]

The feeling of safety is in part due to familiarity.

I'd feel a lot safer in Jull St mall than I would in the main street of Balga or some busted arse Northern suburb simply because I'm more familiar with the former.

Yeah can't wait to move out Balga. Every single house is being knocked down and three units put on the block don't know how people can live in those houses.

 

[Borry]

Well, not everyone needs or wants a large block of land.

 

[BALKAN]

From /r/perth

 

[kfc1]

Close to the wankiest thing ive ever read