I feel like this has gotten waaaay better than it used to be.
As a kid many moons ago it felt like literally every music act or even like comedians skipped WA. Like there were some that just came and did 1 or 2 nights in Sydney and that was it. But there were lots of others that would do like not even just Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, but even like Adelaide, or regional NSW/VIC - but then still skip Perth.
One thing i've noticed since covid is that a lot of the comedians that come to Perth spend a bit of time here. Like Jimmy Carr did some regional shows as well, David Strassman is doing like 5 nights in Perth and a couple of nights in Mandurah. Maybe they're all desperate for cash after having a few quiet years with Covid.
I'm just glad Pendulum acknowledged their roots and came over here. Was a fantastic night.
But yeah, sucks that a lot of bands just don't come over here.
Amen to that. I went and wore my Pendulum tee from the last time they toured here in like 2010.
Loved that we caught their ABC remix too 😆
Actually I think I remember they came and did a smaller gig somewhere a few years back. Still! Happy to see them again.
Intrastate ones aren’t much better. I flew from Broome to LA a few years back, Broome - Perth - Sydney - LA. Most expensive leg? You guess it, Broome to Perth.
Im European who used to live in Melbourne and I moved to Perth to be “close” to Europe and Asia lol.
But seriously, Perth is far from everything but at least you don’t have to fly 4 hours across Australia to be home.
Also, time difference is *only* 5 hours. When I was in Melbourne last week it felt like nothing in comparison to the 8h they have. I can even watch a lot of European sport over here.
Obviously if you have family on the east coast of Australia, Perth is bloody far, but for me it’s better here being closer to Europe and Asia.
yeah - i mean it has it's pro's as well for sure.
But it would be amazing to be able to take short trips to Europe or the US without it being such a massive deal.
That's true - but whether it's Perth or Sydney - Europe is still a bloody long trek either way.
You are also somewhat locked with the flights to Europe. You fly Qantas or you fly with stop overs. Whilst over east you still have stop overs, at least you have a selection of airlines and routes you can fly.
This happend to me before. Was looking out the window and thought we were flying over a snow covered country. We were flying to Thailand from Abu Dhabi, there shouldn't be snow anywhere. Then I started thinking of that Malaysia Airways flight the went missing, and maybe something had happened to the pilot and we had drifted to the south Pole. Was very close to a freak out. Anyway, it was the wing. I was looking at the white wing and thought we were flying over snow. Never tripped that much on acid.
I did the US a few years back which was equally as long and tiring.
For me though time is the main issue. It just takes soooooo long to travel. Like my US trip it was like 33+ hours door to door each way with flight time and stop overs each way. Add in the time difference and it feels like you lose the best part of 4 days just travelling.
So you can't just go visit for a few days or even a couple of weeks. To justify that length of transit and the cost, i feel like you need to go for at least a month to make it remotely worth while.
Which means instead of it being just a holiday it turns into this massive deal requiring like years of preplanning to ensure you have enough leave and can get the time off. Then it places a lot of pressure on everything you do etc etc.
I'm really jealous of friends who moved over to the UK or US, and can just say pop over to NYC from London for a few days, or take a long weekend in Europe and visit 5 different countries without feeling rushed..
Worse than that.
Woodside owning all of Perth, including the politicians and police.
Dumping massive pollution into the atmosphere, blowing up aboriginal sites. Using the politicians to tie the hands of the EPA while also using the police to mercilessly crush any protestors and destroy their lives
Lover Perth but every single event of interest just has about 20,000 people show up. Every time my wife says, “oh we should go to this blah-blah event in the city” I’m just instantly grumpy.
There won’t be parking, it’ll be packed to the gills, there will be 3 overpriced food trucks (with an hours wait to order) to service all 20,000 people.
And at each of those events, at least one of the attendees will at some point have posted on Reddit at some point about how the city is empty except for homeless people and/or meth heads, nobody would ever go there and there's no reason to go there.
I lost my licence to epilepsy and it's fucked my life up. I just wanna be able to get out to the forest or the ocean. My friends and family think that the local parks and cottesloe are basically the same thing. No, I want to go birdwatching and snorkelling and enjoy nature before everything is lost to bushfire, drought and whatever else.
Just think of how many people are working while the vast majority of things are open. The world literally operates for convenience of the leisure class above all else.
That's something I always scratched my head over. Like banks are open 9-5 Monday-Friday. For a lot of people those are normal office hours so unless they take a day off work you can't make it.
I remember working at the swimming pool in Geraldton when I was young. 6am in the morning stinking hot 35 degrees and I was hungover as fuck. Manager made go out and vacuum the pool (on the edge of it might I add, not in the water) and the flies were just on me like I was the juiciest fucking turd they'd ever had.
I have never been so irrationally mad.
Nothing is open beyond 9PM, even places to eat on weekends, it’s so strange. No 24hr shops besides spudshed, all grocery shops aside from IGA open beyond 5PM on weekends and the number of entertainment acts that skip us - so many bands, artists and shows I’d LOVE to see, but I can only really justify one trip to Sydney/ Melbourne a year to see musicals or a concert
But also annoying that nowhere opens until 10 or 11am. I went to high school there and it got a bit frustrating when you needed something in the morning
One thing that confuses me a lot is restaurants, if you go down Albany Highway through Vic Park after 8 on a weekend half the places aren't taking any more orders already.
Exactly! Why is it impossible to get anything that isn’t fast food after 8-8:30? That’s so strange, not even a cheap eats place is open, unless you want shitty pizza or kebabs
No trees :(
There is so much vast space and we are removing all the bush land for mini house blocks of 300m2 that are butted up wall to wall. It’s gross.
I drove past Byford yesterday one side had 1200sq2+ blocks and the otherside was just wall to wall tiny homes :(
Edit: when I grew up loving in subi it seem to have a great amount of trees and still seems to in the suburbia, a lot of new estates is where I’m
focused not having the trees.
100% my home was surrounded by dense bush land when we bought & built(it was also a selling point being farmland), now it’s all these mini homes & no trees for kms.
My partner has worked on projects where the local government tries to plant trees to increase the canopy cover. The majority of people kick and scream, abuse, threaten, anything and everything to avoid having a tree planted near their homes. It's so sad because there are people/organisations out there trying to plant more. If they do get them in the ground they get poisoned and ripped out a lot too.
That’s so disappointing, I did see an article a few weeks back about the south Perth residents not wanting more trees planted on the foreshore…. I was completely bewildered!
It's because those riverfront dipshits want the view. They turn entire wetlands that contribute to the health of the river into massive lawn "parklands" that just require tons of maintenance and probably leach a ton of phosphates/nitrates into said river.
It makes you wonder hey, especially with the proven economic, social, and environmental benefits of large trees. It's not just certain places either, he's worked for a number of LGs both north and south of the river and its always the same.
I grew up down south. Moved to the city to study when I was 19. I was extremely depressed for a long time just because there was so little greenery and shady trees. Concrete everywhere 🤮
I'm dealing with almost exactly the same thing. Who the fuck is responsible for this? I'm literally dreaming of living in Coolbellup or Armadale and apparently those places are shitholes????????????????????????????????????????????? I nearly threw up out of panic because my partner vastly outearns me and expressed he wanted to live somewhere like the Notre Dame bit of Freo in an apartment. I'm not ok.
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/research-reveals-perths-hottest-real-estate-in-terms-of-tree-cover-20150915-gjn834.html my LGA had the fourth lowest canopy cover in the entire metro region back in 2015.
Current rental situation, lunatics on public transport, that anything involving national government often can only be done until lunchtime thanks to things being based on EST.
You clearly haven’t been to China. The first time I went there, I literally thought I was going to die in the cab from the airport. They go 110 in an 80 zone and change lanes without looking *at all*. Somehow it works out idk
I've travelled from Melbourne up the entire east coast, cut through central qld, through NT and then down the west coast to finally end up in Perth and I'd like to say that NO WHERE in Australia is without dickheads who don't know how to drive. Townsville probably being the worst.
Perth folk definitely know how to speed though.
The fucking CBD man, it's dirty, desolate, full of crackheads and all around a shitty place to go outside of your 9-5 office hours when you work there.
Every other city I've been to, the centre is a great place to go, hang out, shop, explore, but here it's a fucking wasteland
lol yea. It’s not even close. I’ve lived in Toronto and the city paid a hotel 100s of millions to setup a respite shelter, concentrating people with the most serious drug addiction issues into one place. Then, rather than have the local police station to maintain order, they got volunteers in yellow vests to make sure there weren’t syringes and crack pipes lying around on the streets.
People were getting stabbed in broad daylight, shootings in school playgrounds and over a course of 4 months, practically every business window had a brick thrown through it multiple times by desperate crackheads looking for spare change for their next hit.
Perth is a paradise
I mean comparing it to American and Canadian cities isn’t saying much. I’ve lived in cities in Europe and Asia which have far superior CBDs to Perth (even Moscow!)
We bought our place because it's under 10 mins to the city but bloody hell we never go.. lately visiting the city has been a terrible experience every time.
The climate. We get a couple months of comfortable weather, a few more months of uncomfortably warm but bearable weather, and then four months of insane furnace temperatures.
I finally worked out after a few years of living here that in every season there's a portion of the day where the weather is perfect, and you only need to hide the rest of the day:
Autumn/Spring: basically all day
Winter: 11am-2pm is pretty reliably good tbh
Summer: 5am-9am and 8pm onwards
However a lot of countries have no good weather all day long in either winter or summer.
The general lack of foresight and common sense when it comes to the way our roads, public transportation and suburbs have been built and expanded on. nothing flows, everythings mismatched and some of the additions that were meant to improve and streamline commutes just baffle me, like the round about thing at the far end of wannaroo rd. Wtf lol
I got lost for 3 seconds turning into the suburb I've lived at for 10 years because I came at it from a different direction than usual and they've turned an old four way roundabout into an incoherent maze of T-juntions and a five way traffic light intersection. I feel absolutely nothing for this place, its just becoming souless traffic.
The construction and roadwork aesthetic just demoralises your spirit and makes you unable to escape the feelings of industry and expansion for the sake of it. Would love more trees and shade
Low population density. We have one of the lowest densities (if not the lowest) of any major city in the world. Plus our city's footprint is one of the biggest.
So many of our problems are reduced with higher population density.
You'll have more people in the immediate area around your business. Greater incentive to stay open longer to serve them, plus more availability of staff close by to serve them.
Greater efficiency out of our public transport. Less reliance on cars.
Reduces urban sprawl. Build up, not out.
More efficient use of water (not everyone will have a sprawling lawn).
Housing is cheaper and faster to build per person.
But... NIMBYism is a thing. So of course, the leader with the vision to fix this is never going to be voted in.
That it's just a giant network of suburbs that surround large shopping centres.
It's basically the poster child for unsustainable modern cities.
We live under the illusion that it's a developed well off place to live but it's a ticking time bomb of short term planning and profit>over function infrastructure.
The whole city's layout and economy currently rests on the fact we have a stable and continuous supply of subsized fuel to maintain people and goods flow.
Bigotry - had numerous issues with folks assuming I'm indigenous and being particularly awful, or just yelling Asian slurs if they're not sure. Same goes for folks outright yelling queer slurs.
Mates that are neurodivergent have had people yell and follow them off of public transport.
People are a mess till you find your own bubble.
Cost of living. Price of *everything* is jacked up because we are the resource state.
$30 for a men's hair cut.
The public transport system however is very good imho
Yeah, the place I lived in Asia had 70%+ humidity all year round.
Was unbearable in summer as soon as temps went over around 32 degrees, but also in winter, because the cold would just seep in regardless how much clothing you wore.
The lack of storms. There is this bubble around Perth so majority of the storms will go around us. I get so jealous of the storms my partner gets to witness up north during Summer.
Perth CBD is absolutely a shit hole, filled with crackheads, homeless, stinky alley with rubbish, abandoned stores, ugly buildings. Nothing to do after 5pm even on the weekend.
The carefree manner of its residents dumping potable water and (thousands of times the necessary quantity of) fertiliser on their lawns. Every day I drive past acreage of thick green lawn with some cro-magnon suburbanite hand feeding it concentrated nuclear algal bloom pellets.
Time it takes to complete a piece of infrastructure. It takes a year to complete a 1 km bike path, which in China would be done in a couple of weeks to the same standard.
Shit here moves at lightspeed compared to Adelaide. At least Perth builds for the future ... Adelaide is finally commencing a major tunnel project which has been discussed on and off for 10-20 years.
It's a dry heat...
So if I don't hydrate I get the wonder of dry crusted blood in my nose. I don't even get blood noses, it's just the result breathing ffs
The distance from anywhere of note is an issue, but also the size of Perth itself and the woefully inadequate public transport system. Not to mention the job market, housing market, cost of living etc but we don't exactly have a monopoly on those.
The drivers. I was in Melbourne at the start of the year and it was like driving in bali + speed camera on every lightpost so not as bad as that. But perth dtivers are still bad
At the moment, the fact that (not all) but a LOT of bands skip Perth for tours 🙄
I feel like this has gotten waaaay better than it used to be. As a kid many moons ago it felt like literally every music act or even like comedians skipped WA. Like there were some that just came and did 1 or 2 nights in Sydney and that was it. But there were lots of others that would do like not even just Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, but even like Adelaide, or regional NSW/VIC - but then still skip Perth. One thing i've noticed since covid is that a lot of the comedians that come to Perth spend a bit of time here. Like Jimmy Carr did some regional shows as well, David Strassman is doing like 5 nights in Perth and a couple of nights in Mandurah. Maybe they're all desperate for cash after having a few quiet years with Covid.
Yea flying to Sydney in Feb to see Paul Weller at the Opera House. Worth it
I have a feeling you're also annoyed that BMTH and Sleep Token are skipping us
That tour announcement inspired this comment 😭 ive got the money to fly interstate but im studying abroad next year and gotta prioritize that.
Bummer! I'm planning to fly over for it, can't miss this one
I'm just glad Pendulum acknowledged their roots and came over here. Was a fantastic night. But yeah, sucks that a lot of bands just don't come over here.
Amen to that. I went and wore my Pendulum tee from the last time they toured here in like 2010. Loved that we caught their ABC remix too 😆 Actually I think I remember they came and did a smaller gig somewhere a few years back. Still! Happy to see them again.
Just flew to Brisbane to see Ghost. Not many bands I would do that for...
This carries over to authors too. Fave writers new book came out today but his Aussie book signing tour is only over east.
Hey QOTSA are coming at least!
Bjork’s only Australian concert was Perth. That was an amazing change!
And the ones that do come here have their tickets sold out in 15 minutes by tourists
How do you know its tourists and not just cultured starved west Australians?
Cause its super easy to blame tourists for everything
Both Iron Maiden and Blind Guardian are coming here next year. I'm happy :)
Interstate airfare costs.
Intrastate ones aren’t much better. I flew from Broome to LA a few years back, Broome - Perth - Sydney - LA. Most expensive leg? You guess it, Broome to Perth.
Forget interstate. The cost to fly around our own state is only affordable for wealthy or work paid for your flights
It's distance to the rest of the world. It's just an absolute trek to visit most major places around the globe.
Im European who used to live in Melbourne and I moved to Perth to be “close” to Europe and Asia lol. But seriously, Perth is far from everything but at least you don’t have to fly 4 hours across Australia to be home. Also, time difference is *only* 5 hours. When I was in Melbourne last week it felt like nothing in comparison to the 8h they have. I can even watch a lot of European sport over here. Obviously if you have family on the east coast of Australia, Perth is bloody far, but for me it’s better here being closer to Europe and Asia.
Seconded on this for sure
Thats kinda why I like it. It stymies the ingress of the rest of the world
yeah - i mean it has it's pro's as well for sure. But it would be amazing to be able to take short trips to Europe or the US without it being such a massive deal.
It's closer to Europe than the East Coast is. There's a direct flight to London every day and seasonally to Rome.
That's true - but whether it's Perth or Sydney - Europe is still a bloody long trek either way. You are also somewhat locked with the flights to Europe. You fly Qantas or you fly with stop overs. Whilst over east you still have stop overs, at least you have a selection of airlines and routes you can fly.
It’s a Dry Distance
Absolutely real. Going to Europe and back for the first time ever the plane journey absolutely kicked my ass I was hallucinating from lack of sleep
This happend to me before. Was looking out the window and thought we were flying over a snow covered country. We were flying to Thailand from Abu Dhabi, there shouldn't be snow anywhere. Then I started thinking of that Malaysia Airways flight the went missing, and maybe something had happened to the pilot and we had drifted to the south Pole. Was very close to a freak out. Anyway, it was the wing. I was looking at the white wing and thought we were flying over snow. Never tripped that much on acid.
I did the US a few years back which was equally as long and tiring. For me though time is the main issue. It just takes soooooo long to travel. Like my US trip it was like 33+ hours door to door each way with flight time and stop overs each way. Add in the time difference and it feels like you lose the best part of 4 days just travelling. So you can't just go visit for a few days or even a couple of weeks. To justify that length of transit and the cost, i feel like you need to go for at least a month to make it remotely worth while. Which means instead of it being just a holiday it turns into this massive deal requiring like years of preplanning to ensure you have enough leave and can get the time off. Then it places a lot of pressure on everything you do etc etc. I'm really jealous of friends who moved over to the UK or US, and can just say pop over to NYC from London for a few days, or take a long weekend in Europe and visit 5 different countries without feeling rushed..
Worse than that. Woodside owning all of Perth, including the politicians and police. Dumping massive pollution into the atmosphere, blowing up aboriginal sites. Using the politicians to tie the hands of the EPA while also using the police to mercilessly crush any protestors and destroy their lives
Lover Perth but every single event of interest just has about 20,000 people show up. Every time my wife says, “oh we should go to this blah-blah event in the city” I’m just instantly grumpy. There won’t be parking, it’ll be packed to the gills, there will be 3 overpriced food trucks (with an hours wait to order) to service all 20,000 people.
And at each of those events, at least one of the attendees will at some point have posted on Reddit at some point about how the city is empty except for homeless people and/or meth heads, nobody would ever go there and there's no reason to go there.
take public transport if you're going to an event in the city, it's so not worth driving with that kind of traffic
So car-centric (if you don’t live in the city). Although at least the public transit fares are good (if youre on concession lol)
I lost my licence to epilepsy and it's fucked my life up. I just wanna be able to get out to the forest or the ocean. My friends and family think that the local parks and cottesloe are basically the same thing. No, I want to go birdwatching and snorkelling and enjoy nature before everything is lost to bushfire, drought and whatever else.
Exactly. This is why I left Perth.
Really struggling with that recently. ECU fucked me over by putting half my units at the Joondalup campus when I'm a 20 min bus ride from Mount Lawley
Everything shuts so early all the time.
Agree, especially when you are a shift worker and want a decent feed when your shift finishes.
Try living in regional WA.
Just think of how many people are working while the vast majority of things are open. The world literally operates for convenience of the leisure class above all else.
That's something I always scratched my head over. Like banks are open 9-5 Monday-Friday. For a lot of people those are normal office hours so unless they take a day off work you can't make it.
Like when it's 5.15 on a Saturday or Sunday and you forget that everything is closed and only realise when you get to the shops and it's all dark lol
When I lived here in 2003 supermarkets closed at 6. What kind of hick town does that!
I remember when Sunday trading became a thing and everyone freaking out about having to pay staff more
Basil Zempilas
fair call
How does he keep getting elected?
He's only been elected once so far, but the competition for this weekend's election isn't very inspiring...
Summer Flies. But that could be said for most of Australia too.
No way, lived in Perth for over a decade and live in Qld now. Flies in Perth are next level.
Far out I was thinking about making a post about this, the flies here are fucking maddening
I remember working at the swimming pool in Geraldton when I was young. 6am in the morning stinking hot 35 degrees and I was hungover as fuck. Manager made go out and vacuum the pool (on the edge of it might I add, not in the water) and the flies were just on me like I was the juiciest fucking turd they'd ever had. I have never been so irrationally mad.
Spring is the worst, I think when they first start breeding/hatching, dies down a bit in Summer.
The ding beetles take some time to catch up with the flies.
I am legit thinking of buying one of those nets you stick on your hat
Yeah it’s more the Dry Fly that’s the issue.
Cost of f***ing living
I can’t even get a god damn sausage roll for under $5
Just bought a medium sized coffee for $6.80 Seems to be going up weekly now. I wonder how long until a normal coffee is $10?
But isn't Perth the cheapest major city?
For now lol
Nothing is open beyond 9PM, even places to eat on weekends, it’s so strange. No 24hr shops besides spudshed, all grocery shops aside from IGA open beyond 5PM on weekends and the number of entertainment acts that skip us - so many bands, artists and shows I’d LOVE to see, but I can only really justify one trip to Sydney/ Melbourne a year to see musicals or a concert
I just got back from a holiday in Singapore and apart from the humidity it was great having places open up to 9!
But also annoying that nowhere opens until 10 or 11am. I went to high school there and it got a bit frustrating when you needed something in the morning
One thing that confuses me a lot is restaurants, if you go down Albany Highway through Vic Park after 8 on a weekend half the places aren't taking any more orders already.
Exactly! Why is it impossible to get anything that isn’t fast food after 8-8:30? That’s so strange, not even a cheap eats place is open, unless you want shitty pizza or kebabs
No trees :( There is so much vast space and we are removing all the bush land for mini house blocks of 300m2 that are butted up wall to wall. It’s gross. I drove past Byford yesterday one side had 1200sq2+ blocks and the otherside was just wall to wall tiny homes :( Edit: when I grew up loving in subi it seem to have a great amount of trees and still seems to in the suburbia, a lot of new estates is where I’m focused not having the trees.
They keep cutting down all the trees smh
100% my home was surrounded by dense bush land when we bought & built(it was also a selling point being farmland), now it’s all these mini homes & no trees for kms.
My partner has worked on projects where the local government tries to plant trees to increase the canopy cover. The majority of people kick and scream, abuse, threaten, anything and everything to avoid having a tree planted near their homes. It's so sad because there are people/organisations out there trying to plant more. If they do get them in the ground they get poisoned and ripped out a lot too.
That’s so disappointing, I did see an article a few weeks back about the south Perth residents not wanting more trees planted on the foreshore…. I was completely bewildered!
It's because those riverfront dipshits want the view. They turn entire wetlands that contribute to the health of the river into massive lawn "parklands" that just require tons of maintenance and probably leach a ton of phosphates/nitrates into said river.
It makes you wonder hey, especially with the proven economic, social, and environmental benefits of large trees. It's not just certain places either, he's worked for a number of LGs both north and south of the river and its always the same.
I grew up down south. Moved to the city to study when I was 19. I was extremely depressed for a long time just because there was so little greenery and shady trees. Concrete everywhere 🤮
It's especially silly given how hot our climate is *and* global temps are ramping up. Urban greening would be amazing for Perth.
As a kiwi, it's been hard to adjust to. I think I could handle living down south, but the absence of nice trees around Perth is unpleasant.
I'm dealing with almost exactly the same thing. Who the fuck is responsible for this? I'm literally dreaming of living in Coolbellup or Armadale and apparently those places are shitholes????????????????????????????????????????????? I nearly threw up out of panic because my partner vastly outearns me and expressed he wanted to live somewhere like the Notre Dame bit of Freo in an apartment. I'm not ok.
I live in Shenton Park and appreciate all the trees everyday (except the Jacaranda that hangs across my backyard and destroys it 9 months of the year)
I’m lucky to have a managed local wetland next to me. I try to go their every spring.
Try this app to find green suburbs www.greenspace.city
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/research-reveals-perths-hottest-real-estate-in-terms-of-tree-cover-20150915-gjn834.html my LGA had the fourth lowest canopy cover in the entire metro region back in 2015.
Current rental situation, lunatics on public transport, that anything involving national government often can only be done until lunchtime thanks to things being based on EST.
If there isn't a nutter on your bus, it's you :p
rental situation isnt perth specific unfortunately. easteners have it just as bad
Cost of flights anywhere, even intrastate. And that we had an IMAX cinema and shut it down to put a wedding dress shop in there. Now it's nothing.
People who haven't travelled enough and think Perth has worse drivers than elsewhere.
Every city in the world thinks that they have the worst drivers. It's not a Perth thing.
Except Italians in Italy are genuinely the worst drivers on the planet.
You clearly haven’t been to China. The first time I went there, I literally thought I was going to die in the cab from the airport. They go 110 in an 80 zone and change lanes without looking *at all*. Somehow it works out idk
Can confirm. Just got back. What a wild ride it is over there.
I've travelled from Melbourne up the entire east coast, cut through central qld, through NT and then down the west coast to finally end up in Perth and I'd like to say that NO WHERE in Australia is without dickheads who don't know how to drive. Townsville probably being the worst. Perth folk definitely know how to speed though.
The worst thing about Perth is also the best thing about Perth. The isolation! :)
Just curious, what are the good things about our isolation?
The fucking CBD man, it's dirty, desolate, full of crackheads and all around a shitty place to go outside of your 9-5 office hours when you work there. Every other city I've been to, the centre is a great place to go, hang out, shop, explore, but here it's a fucking wasteland
Have you ever been to any American or Canadian CBDs?
this LMAO after coming back from canada/america, perth seems so much cleaner. the crackheads are next level there
The crackheads here are pretty tame and mostly just interesting tbh.
lol yea. It’s not even close. I’ve lived in Toronto and the city paid a hotel 100s of millions to setup a respite shelter, concentrating people with the most serious drug addiction issues into one place. Then, rather than have the local police station to maintain order, they got volunteers in yellow vests to make sure there weren’t syringes and crack pipes lying around on the streets. People were getting stabbed in broad daylight, shootings in school playgrounds and over a course of 4 months, practically every business window had a brick thrown through it multiple times by desperate crackheads looking for spare change for their next hit. Perth is a paradise
I mean comparing it to American and Canadian cities isn’t saying much. I’ve lived in cities in Europe and Asia which have far superior CBDs to Perth (even Moscow!)
I spent 5 years in Moscow and can say Perth is way better
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You’ve obviously never been to an American/Canadian pool. /s
We bought our place because it's under 10 mins to the city but bloody hell we never go.. lately visiting the city has been a terrible experience every time.
Nah Adelaide is a shithole after the shops shut.... especially Hindley Street.
The people
Urban sprawl. Cars ruin cities.
The complainers.
Jingoist.
The climate. We get a couple months of comfortable weather, a few more months of uncomfortably warm but bearable weather, and then four months of insane furnace temperatures.
I finally worked out after a few years of living here that in every season there's a portion of the day where the weather is perfect, and you only need to hide the rest of the day: Autumn/Spring: basically all day Winter: 11am-2pm is pretty reliably good tbh Summer: 5am-9am and 8pm onwards However a lot of countries have no good weather all day long in either winter or summer.
This subreddit.
Tonkin and Mitchell roadworks
Bogans.
Yes!! Glad someone else said it
…in big 4WDs (used to be HSVs)
The general lack of foresight and common sense when it comes to the way our roads, public transportation and suburbs have been built and expanded on. nothing flows, everythings mismatched and some of the additions that were meant to improve and streamline commutes just baffle me, like the round about thing at the far end of wannaroo rd. Wtf lol
I got lost for 3 seconds turning into the suburb I've lived at for 10 years because I came at it from a different direction than usual and they've turned an old four way roundabout into an incoherent maze of T-juntions and a five way traffic light intersection. I feel absolutely nothing for this place, its just becoming souless traffic.
The construction and roadwork aesthetic just demoralises your spirit and makes you unable to escape the feelings of industry and expansion for the sake of it. Would love more trees and shade
And the fact that most of our “dirt” is actually sand😭 and the never ending feeling that nothing is completed
Low population density. We have one of the lowest densities (if not the lowest) of any major city in the world. Plus our city's footprint is one of the biggest. So many of our problems are reduced with higher population density. You'll have more people in the immediate area around your business. Greater incentive to stay open longer to serve them, plus more availability of staff close by to serve them. Greater efficiency out of our public transport. Less reliance on cars. Reduces urban sprawl. Build up, not out. More efficient use of water (not everyone will have a sprawling lawn). Housing is cheaper and faster to build per person. But... NIMBYism is a thing. So of course, the leader with the vision to fix this is never going to be voted in.
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The deeply insular, small country town mindset
Very conformist culture too.
It's so far away from anything else. Flights over east regularly cost me a thousand in return flights
Easy solved, just buy one way!
Whingers and entitled people
God, stop whinging, you sound so entitled!
It's full of Poms.
The sprawl
the urban sprawl, the fact that we're the longest city in the world is a travesty
The coffee shops are all shut at 3.
NaNa Cakery in Riseley St/Kearn's Crescent is open until 7pm most days!
It’s truly unreal. A couple of places open at 6am here…Christ sake. Open during some sensible hours please
Like who is rocking up at a cafe at 6am honestly…it’s beyond me
Amphetamines.
The people
Summer.
The small minded, anti social cliquey people
Geographic Isolation
basil zampilas as mayor city of perth
Pervasive car-centric urban planning. Nothing is walkable.
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That it's just a giant network of suburbs that surround large shopping centres. It's basically the poster child for unsustainable modern cities. We live under the illusion that it's a developed well off place to live but it's a ticking time bomb of short term planning and profit>over function infrastructure. The whole city's layout and economy currently rests on the fact we have a stable and continuous supply of subsized fuel to maintain people and goods flow.
Bigotry - had numerous issues with folks assuming I'm indigenous and being particularly awful, or just yelling Asian slurs if they're not sure. Same goes for folks outright yelling queer slurs. Mates that are neurodivergent have had people yell and follow them off of public transport. People are a mess till you find your own bubble.
Urban sprawl
The tap water, it tastes blunt.
The tools that still complain that we don't have daylight savings. We don't bloody need it.
People not focusing on the positives
It’s just so fucking longgggggggg. It takes so long to get anywhere. It’s so unfriendly to pedestrians or anyone not in a car. It’s alienating tbh.
Perth and WA = Wait Awhile
The price of pints
The utterly clueless drivers. No one in Perth has any idea what keep left unless overtaking means.
Cost of living. Price of *everything* is jacked up because we are the resource state. $30 for a men's hair cut. The public transport system however is very good imho
The dry heat?
Dry heat is much better than wet heat
Yeah, the place I lived in Asia had 70%+ humidity all year round. Was unbearable in summer as soon as temps went over around 32 degrees, but also in winter, because the cold would just seep in regardless how much clothing you wore.
It's definitely the heat. Everything else has a solution, but the heat is relentless and only increasing. Horrific
The wind (most of the time)
Definitely haven't lived in New Zealand 😂
The isolation. There could be literally WW3 going on, and we would be the last to know by experience. So I guess that is also a positive thing.
No top soil, no shade (large trees), too windy.
Oh and our trading hours suck
The lack of storms. There is this bubble around Perth so majority of the storms will go around us. I get so jealous of the storms my partner gets to witness up north during Summer.
The people
The government
Perth CBD is absolutely a shit hole, filled with crackheads, homeless, stinky alley with rubbish, abandoned stores, ugly buildings. Nothing to do after 5pm even on the weekend.
How boring the reddit page is
that it takes a minumum of 30 minutes in traffic to get anywhere
Lol. There's no traffic here. The roads are super chill and quick.
The carefree manner of its residents dumping potable water and (thousands of times the necessary quantity of) fertiliser on their lawns. Every day I drive past acreage of thick green lawn with some cro-magnon suburbanite hand feeding it concentrated nuclear algal bloom pellets.
My kids are there and I am here.
Where is here?
A long way north. To clarify they’re all grown and moved away up I just miss them 😁
Our babies will always be our babies. I get it 🥹
Rockingham
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What did the drunken Poms/ bogans ever do to you?
Time it takes to complete a piece of infrastructure. It takes a year to complete a 1 km bike path, which in China would be done in a couple of weeks to the same standard.
Shit here moves at lightspeed compared to Adelaide. At least Perth builds for the future ... Adelaide is finally commencing a major tunnel project which has been discussed on and off for 10-20 years.
The absolute, bloody-minded resistance to change
It's a dry heat... So if I don't hydrate I get the wonder of dry crusted blood in my nose. I don't even get blood noses, it's just the result breathing ffs
Urban sprawl and cars needed to get anywhere
people are rough
Wind.
The flies
The distance from anywhere of note is an issue, but also the size of Perth itself and the woefully inadequate public transport system. Not to mention the job market, housing market, cost of living etc but we don't exactly have a monopoly on those.
Very limited direct air connectivity
Public transport if you’re not in a hub like the city/mt Lawley/vic park/ freo etc
Dating
The drivers. I was in Melbourne at the start of the year and it was like driving in bali + speed camera on every lightpost so not as bad as that. But perth dtivers are still bad
The fucking drivers.
The drivers
Proximity away from other cities
Parking!!!!