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I just heard John Cadogan describe Perth as the only living graveyard. (a joke for sure, but....)

I have an opportunity to take a consultant/teaching position at Murdoch. I'm really tempted to take it.
I grew up in Perth so know what it was like back then, what's it like now?
 
It doesn't change much, still pretty quiet, but a great place to live.IMO
It depends a lot on what interests you.
 
Is it still impossible to get a coffee at 5pm (about when Im gagging for one) n
 
wayneL said:
Is it still impossible to get a coffee at 5pm (about when Im gagging for one) n
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These days there are coffee shops everywhere, it is one area of the economy that has really boomed, coffee shops and fast food.
 

Hard one to answer I think you would find it largely the same with more urban sprawl,coffee has definitely improved, eating out in the suburbs is vastly better as well daughter went to Murdoch for a couple of units (great coffee) said she enjoyed the campus.
If you could train it to Murdoch station it would be OK freeway at the moment is pretty slow with all the road works.
 
As you get older what do we expect from life?I like the quiet life more and more.Was in WA for three days 12 months ago-Went to a birthday party at Bunbury and took in Busselton,and on the way back to airport called in to Preston Beach-an inviting little settlement with a good beach.Did the southwest nearly forty years ago and tried to climb the Gloucester tree...but within reach of the top the tree started to sway....that was it for me.I remember going to a "stomp'' at Holden???? outskirts of Freo in about 64.Didn't do any good.Not that I am a beach person,but could easily be if I was in WA.
 
The memory fades..I believe the stomp was at Hamilton Hill....wonder they didn't go through the floors back then.What a stupid dance it was.
 
The only thing I found strange about Perth was an apparent obsession by locals to get away from the place by jumping in the ocean and/or going to an island.

Seen one beach.......

Thankfully we ignored that advice, kept away from the water, and it was all quite nice actually.
 

Another obsession is 4 wheel drives (Terrace / bogan tractors) tailgating you usually a male in his 40's wearing a baseball cap luckily we have gun laws other wise I would have shot quite a few
 
sptrawler said:
These days there are coffee shops everywhere, it is one area of the economy that has really boomed, coffee shops and fast food.
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The first thing we actually did upon arriving in Perth was buy a pizza.

True story.

Other than that - saw the gold being poured, rang the bells, went to the park.....
 
IFocus said:
Another obsession is 4 wheel drives (Terrace / bogan tractors) tailgating you usually a male in his 40's wearing a baseball cap luckily we have gun laws other wise I would have shot quite a few
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I think that's Oz wide tbh. I totally get what you're saying about gun laws
 
South Freo is pretty cool these days
Walking distance to beach,pubs,food and some very interesting greenies ....
10 minutes to Murdoch
 
Humid said:
South Freo is pretty cool these days
Walking distance to beach,pubs,food and some very interesting greenies ....
10 minutes to Murdoch
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Every couple on months meet up with mates at the National Hotel (cheap pints) still very old style Aussie clientele (none of those leftest greenies ) always feel at home.
 
This is an ambit claim, there is no possibility from what I have read that they will get close to this however there will be other claims all over the nation now.

This is going to be a painful route to a treaty.

Once again I think we will all envy New Zealand who resolved these issues long ago.
 
I think as a migrant, i should seek spiritual damage from the first nation here, i worked and spend my life here at a great cost to my spiritual well being. Different religion, language, culture, no smelling cheese, working during the day of the deads..first nations know the deal... and providing them welfare thru a taxation system ripping 40pc of me to people living on a land i never put a foot in.and
obviously, i had no choice either as my migration was the result of a native population pushed out of its land by climate change migrants from Let's blame co2
They..whoever they are..the others...can pay
would that fit well on a green agenda?
 
the myriad of extra payments available to the aboriginal population have so far failed to make a difference in the outcome, why not just throw a bunch more at the problem? It's just white-fullas money!

(and anyone of colour that wants to actually do something with their life and contribute to the wider society is obviously a coconut)
 
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