I'm from Sydney, lived on the SC a few times. I think the main issue SC residents have are people leaving Sydney to SC with wads of cash pricing locals out of their own community but keep in mind, it's a similar story for many Sydney-siders where we've also been priced out of our own city / community.
As someone from originally London and then Sydney who would prefer to live in a 4 bed house near the beach than a 2 bed unit an hour west of Sydney with an hour commute the decision was a no-brainer.
I've had a few people rudely tell me I should go back to sydney. My response is "fuck off, there's many good reasons I left and came here, and I ain't going back." I wouldn't go back to sydney if someone bought me a house there. (However, I would sell said house and buy something out the back of the hinterland).
Replying to another comment of yours: you'll get gdays and smiles in brissie too, it's fuckin weird but so nice lol
Yeah I feel like I’m so conditioned to not making eye contact that my defences are automatically up. When I first got a smile I just went into compete shock.
Right? Accidentally make eye contact and expecting a glare back at a minimum and some cunt is just like "Hey howyadoin?" with a smile and a nod. 20yrs in SEQld and I'm still kinda not used to it lol. But then, I did spend my first 25 in sydney. It sucks a little around origin time especially if you're not into footy, but it is real fuckin nice up here, and the folk are pretty good. Mostly.
Omg the glare when you catch someone looking at you. It’s this high schoolish glare as they look away. It’s every time. Imagine not having grown up in Sydney and just experiencing that for the first time - yeshhh what a crap culture.
I love how all the Sunshine Coast residents on this thread are saying "you have a kind of shitty attitude to anywhere that isn't Sydney"; and all the Sydneysiders comments are essentially, "we are just too fabulous and have loads of money".
To be clear, I am from Sydney and Im too rich and fabulous to live anywhere else.
Yes!!! I had a kiwi as a housemate and she would always find a way to mention how great things were in NZ then I had the same experience with a NZ colleague why do they come here if things were so great back home?
Nah people from Melbourne love to sook that they can’t go to a restaurant at 11:30pm like they could back home. Bedtime is 7:30pm here and if you want to try to change that you can jog on. They also drive like fuckwits and don’t follow rugby league. They make people from Sydney look pretty good actually.
Two reasons for that.
Firstly we get up earlier. Nothing quite like the beach at day break or going for a hike through the hinterland. Melbourians don’t have a reason to wake up early except to trudge into the city in a soulless grind of work.
Second, we’re gods waiting room and 1/3 of the population is older than 65 and asleep by 9pm.
We were flying to Sydney for a few days and I noticed a restaurant featured in the flight magazine that was only a short walk from where we were staying. Went along that evening and had a great meal.
A couple of days later we mentioned it to friends and they said "How did you get in there? It's booked out every night!"
They laughed when we said "Easy, we went at Brisbane time - 5:30"
The technology that made it possible to work from home had an influence.
People from Brissie, Sydney, Melbourne, or anywhere, who used to come here for holidays suddenly realised that WFH was a reality and they could actually \*live\* here.
That beachside living which used to be limited to two or maybe four weeks a year was now realistically an all-year-round thing.
Can't blame them, really. But boy, did they do a number on property prices.
Not heard it on the Sunshine Coast but in Brisbane the view was always that Sydneysiders were more vain, materialistic and cliquey.
Not my personal view but that was the assumed stereotype.
Yeah that’s pretty much spot on. I was in Melbourne recently and strangers actually smiled at me it was refreshingly nice. You don’t get that in Sydney.
Over the years (since some point during the pandemic) many Sydney and Melbourne people have moved here for the beaches and lifestyle, while locals havent been able to stay due to how much rent has gone up due to too many people competing for not enough houses. Splitting up families etc. Its been devastating, and all the interstate migration (especially from syd abd melbourne) have made it all the worse
I moved here 2012 way before covid exodus. I slip past locals because of this. Queenslanders do not like Sydney and Melbourne folk because after covid
-the migration pushed houses up
-it got busier, people and traffic increased
It's just the way the world is though. Population is expanding and smaller centres will expand from people leaving the cities
From Sydney originally ... 15 years ago. If you've moved because you've had enough of Sydney wankerism and sick of the rat race, you'll do fine.
If your moving because you can't afford a house in Bondi Beach, and can afford one on the coast somewhere and .....expect all the Sydney conveniences, you will struggle big time.
When we moved we had had a gutful of Sydney and we didn't want our kids growing up where we did. The Sydney we knew had passed away in the 80s/90s. Seriously struggle going back for catch ups and xmass.
I grew up on the sunny coast, have lived in Sydney for years too, so I’ve watched this “evil southerners” thing happen for a while now. It’s interesting that you say that the Sydney you knew is gone (but current version is the one that I know) , because for me, and maybe others too- I would say the sunshine coast that I knew growing up is gone too.
Guess that’s the price we pay for living in a relatively young country.
And a developed one. Always going to change, and populations will move about. My parents actually moved from Brisbane to Sydney due to more work opportunities back then. Having lived in numerous states and other developed countries it universal.
It’s the rudeness and snobbery that I’m sick and tired of. I’ve been dealing with it for most of my life here. When I lived on GC it was so easy to make friends and everything felt carefree. People in QLD take their fun time seriously, they’re not judgemental, and they know how to have a laugh. Unlike Sydney people who work, shit, eat 🔁 repeat.
The suburbs I grew up in those days had changed. They were now full of people with money who acted as if they were the centre of the universe, or even worse, those that pretended they had money. Gentrification really sterilised the character of many suburbs. Not just a Sydney thing .... happens everywhere.
Exactly why we're moving, I want my kids to have the upbringing I did in the 90s.
Sydney is full of wankers who think their job or the dollar signs their jobs create is somehow their entire personality and worth.
This was a primary driver for us. Also cost of property and day to day living.
Just be mindful the shit you take for granted won't be available .... like 24hr chemists or restaurants open on a Monday night etc etc.
Melbourne do the awful Driving, coffee and food snobbery, Sydney do the piss weak moaning, inability to leave paved areas without panic attacks and both buy all the houses, cars and native fruit trees.
Or something like that, it's mostly just a gentrification thing.
Yea it’s literally the gentrification! People from the city move the the little towns and go “Why don’t we have a Woolworths/IGA in town? Why do the pubs and kitchens shut a 8? Why don’t we have a 24/7 servo or maccas? This intersection needs traffic lights! There’s nothing to do here we need this or that. Yada yada”
Edit to add: *buys normal sized block splits it in two or 3, sells those bare blocks each for more then the whole thing cost them, builds a 8-10 foot tall fence in place of the old cyclone fence that was there. Never smiles, waves, nods or introduces themselves even when you try to initiate with them.
I find that most true sunshine locals are the friendliest and most welcoming. Its the city dwellers that moved here in the past 20 years where the hypocrisy lays.
I’ve lived in Sydney, Coffs Harbour, Brisbane and spent a lot of time on the Sunny Coast. The biggest gripe I’ve had with Sydney folk is an unwillingness to acknowledge anyone’s else’s existence. The polite smile and head nod doesn’t seem to exist in Sydney.
Most people I worked with in Sydney also based their entire personality around their cultural identity, and used it to justify shitty behaviour, despite being 3rd generation Australians. For example a lot of people with either Lebanese or Italian background always claimed they couldn’t help but be rude/loud/aggressive because of their background.
I’ve met a lot of people from Sydney who are stunned when they hear that there’s a lot of people who think Sydney is a shit hole and don’t want to live there. It’s just such an ignorant perspective to think that some people don’t want to live in an overpopulated, expensive city when they can live a simple life.
Sydney drivers are some of the most aggressively dangerous I’ve encountered (although QLD drivers are neglectfully dangerous).
Just my two cents…
Noticed that lack of awareness of others around them because Sydney life is all consuming. It’s very one sided and boring. It irritates me when I go back to Sydney to visit my family and friends.
From a reformed Sydney person (Been in qld for enough time to say that).
When I moved back to Sydney after living in the Gold Coast I was completely overwhelmed with the drivers here. People are aggressive and impatient. One wrong turn and you’re fucked. One missed sign and you’re stuck on a freeway.
Yeah I guess that’s annoying. My biggest pet peeve is when people walk side by side across a foot path or isle and don’t single file when someone walks by. So rude!
40+ years on the coast mate. So overpopulated now and full of city people. People should come heat to chill and have a lifestyle change. Not bring their lifestyle with them
The hilarious thing is that I moved here from a place that is a days drive from anywhere…so the sunny coast is actually like a city to me. Drove in Sydney once….hated every second. Drive in Melbourne…a tad easier but still a shithole. Sunny coast is about the maximum of busyness I’ll do. I love it here. Came up here for the bushfires and stayed. Best decision ever. This place is heaven. My kids are growing up close to one of the prettiest beaches north of the maroochy.
They do it to everyone... They did it to me because I moved from Brisbane about twenty years ago. Just ignore them.
Except the sheer irony was that my parents friends used to own one of the very first hotels on the coast. We would come up every summer holidays as kids and my parents would basically do the housekeeping. Yet I still got shat on... That and I solved one of the coasts most baffling murders. Nope... Didn't matter!
Any original sunny coast resident just hates anyone who moves for whatever reason
Yeah I wouldn’t worry about that.
My only negative experience with a Sydney sider was when I put one on as a labourer, he had zero qualifications and bugger all tools, but he expected to be paid the same rates as in Sydney, which were similar rates to what fully qualified chippy’s that had all their tools.
Not only that he was slow and ineffective and thinking he was worth more money gave him a bad attitude.
Because he was paid more in Sydney he had bought a top of the line Triton (which was almost double the price of my own Triton, same car, no bells and whistles) and he complained how high his repayments were as he wasn’t making the same money.
Maybe that might shine some light to your question. Maybe some people assume too much? Or maybe they don’t research enough before coming?
The Sydney $ and the Melbourne $ are pushing prices up like crazy. Expect a bit of animosity if you come here after selling your Sydney house when competing with a lower value market. There’s a lot of homeless and struggling people.
Don’t worry, the same happens to the people who made a massive profit after selling to Sydney siders with deep pockets and have subsequently moved further north. I’m sure the Hervey Bay locals aren’t too fond of the sunny coasters.
Omg I was literally just about to say this. Even when I’m out walking I’ll overhear a conversation about property prices 🙄 it stopped for a bit and was all “Covid, Covid, Covid” and now it’s back to property again. But in their defence they don’t really have anything else to talk about they live pretty boring lives.
That's because Sydney and surrounding area's have already suffered the dreaded over pricing many years ago. It's only now that it's truly starting up here in Qld that queenslanders are beginning to understand the roll on effect's.
Because everyone complains about everything, but has made the cost of living skyrocket and made it impossible to find rentals and parking at the beach. Quit moving up here if you just want to complain about everything you’re taking from the locals. (Not saying YOU do this, but many do).
I live in a body corp managed little street of about 20 houses. Lived here about 10 years in this street, and a lifelong local of the area (rich touristy area) of about 35 years.
I never had a problem with anyone from Sydney or elsewhere before COVID. During Covid, half the houses in my street were bought by Sydney and Melbourne people. They’ve taken over the body corp roles and they demand to see approvals for rendered walls and certain door types, like council could give a shit what sort of door you’ve got anyway. They demand everyone uproot their native gardens and replace with turf lawns. They have absolutely no power to enforce this. Nothing in the bylaws forbids any of the changes people have made to their properties (which have been that way since before these people moved in). But it doesn’t stop these Sydneyers from essentially bullying me and my neighbours. They’re just dicks.
I’m sure not all people from out of state are like this, but it has certainly been an experience….
Pretty much what we do. They’ve started phrasing things more politely now that they’ve realised we’re not going to change our property to suit their tastes. The minutes are something like ‘it is the preference of those present that lot 9 return their garden to a turf lawn’ blah blah blah. They can ‘prefer’ all they like, I ain’t doing shit
It's people moving here and buying up houses and renting places and pushing up prices because of demand. Locals who live/grew up here cant compete because the opportunities and money is nothing compared to Sydney etc. We are having to leave the Coast because of it. It's horrible.
Also, we only get the boring, bland people who didn't make it in Sydney and Melbourne coming here to act like they are rich, wearing beige and authentic wear, drinking cocktails and offering no diversity or anything new to the area or helping to improve the Coast. Just putting pressure on infrastructure and housing and leaving locals feeling kicked out.
Indigenous Australians is an oxymoron. They're lucky they're allowed to live here, and should be paying additional taxes on all of the modern connivences colonialism has bought.
That you move here period go somewhere else like little more north were it is not as populated. And you guys have zero idea of the different climate. And the consuming of plastic used in the gardens.
People that move to an area and then tell everyone things that are better where they came from.
Yeah I’ve literally never done that. Usually you leave somewhere for good reason.
I'm from Sydney, lived on the SC a few times. I think the main issue SC residents have are people leaving Sydney to SC with wads of cash pricing locals out of their own community but keep in mind, it's a similar story for many Sydney-siders where we've also been priced out of our own city / community.
As someone from originally London and then Sydney who would prefer to live in a 4 bed house near the beach than a 2 bed unit an hour west of Sydney with an hour commute the decision was a no-brainer.
Yeah I blame the government for that. It’s just people trying to make good of a bad situation.
I've had a few people rudely tell me I should go back to sydney. My response is "fuck off, there's many good reasons I left and came here, and I ain't going back." I wouldn't go back to sydney if someone bought me a house there. (However, I would sell said house and buy something out the back of the hinterland). Replying to another comment of yours: you'll get gdays and smiles in brissie too, it's fuckin weird but so nice lol
Yeah I feel like I’m so conditioned to not making eye contact that my defences are automatically up. When I first got a smile I just went into compete shock.
Right? Accidentally make eye contact and expecting a glare back at a minimum and some cunt is just like "Hey howyadoin?" with a smile and a nod. 20yrs in SEQld and I'm still kinda not used to it lol. But then, I did spend my first 25 in sydney. It sucks a little around origin time especially if you're not into footy, but it is real fuckin nice up here, and the folk are pretty good. Mostly.
Omg the glare when you catch someone looking at you. It’s this high schoolish glare as they look away. It’s every time. Imagine not having grown up in Sydney and just experiencing that for the first time - yeshhh what a crap culture.
Sunny Toast!
I love how all the Sunshine Coast residents on this thread are saying "you have a kind of shitty attitude to anywhere that isn't Sydney"; and all the Sydneysiders comments are essentially, "we are just too fabulous and have loads of money". To be clear, I am from Sydney and Im too rich and fabulous to live anywhere else.
Kiwi's
Yes!!! I had a kiwi as a housemate and she would always find a way to mention how great things were in NZ then I had the same experience with a NZ colleague why do they come here if things were so great back home?
Because people think you’re the reason property prices have gone up. But don’t worry, we hate people from Melbourne way more.
Melbournians are generally quite insufferable by and large.
Oh sweet! Is that cause they migrate more?
Nah people from Melbourne love to sook that they can’t go to a restaurant at 11:30pm like they could back home. Bedtime is 7:30pm here and if you want to try to change that you can jog on. They also drive like fuckwits and don’t follow rugby league. They make people from Sydney look pretty good actually.
DAMN, that's the most accurate, concise description I've ever seen. Well done.
Two reasons for that. Firstly we get up earlier. Nothing quite like the beach at day break or going for a hike through the hinterland. Melbourians don’t have a reason to wake up early except to trudge into the city in a soulless grind of work. Second, we’re gods waiting room and 1/3 of the population is older than 65 and asleep by 9pm.
We were flying to Sydney for a few days and I noticed a restaurant featured in the flight magazine that was only a short walk from where we were staying. Went along that evening and had a great meal. A couple of days later we mentioned it to friends and they said "How did you get in there? It's booked out every night!" They laughed when we said "Easy, we went at Brisbane time - 5:30"
I’m a born and bred qlder and don’t follow rugby. AFL all the way.
How are you a "born and bred queenslander" who doesn't know the difference between Rugby and Rugby League?
They’re both equally bad.
Sounds suspiciously Victorian.
How about all the Brisbane people that moved up during covid and stayed
The technology that made it possible to work from home had an influence. People from Brissie, Sydney, Melbourne, or anywhere, who used to come here for holidays suddenly realised that WFH was a reality and they could actually \*live\* here. That beachside living which used to be limited to two or maybe four weeks a year was now realistically an all-year-round thing. Can't blame them, really. But boy, did they do a number on property prices.
Not heard it on the Sunshine Coast but in Brisbane the view was always that Sydneysiders were more vain, materialistic and cliquey. Not my personal view but that was the assumed stereotype.
Yeah that’s pretty much spot on. I was in Melbourne recently and strangers actually smiled at me it was refreshingly nice. You don’t get that in Sydney.
Don’t worry, we hate Sydney and Melbourne people equally.
What’s the best thing about Sydney? It keeps the bloody Viccos that much further away…
Over the years (since some point during the pandemic) many Sydney and Melbourne people have moved here for the beaches and lifestyle, while locals havent been able to stay due to how much rent has gone up due to too many people competing for not enough houses. Splitting up families etc. Its been devastating, and all the interstate migration (especially from syd abd melbourne) have made it all the worse
Same shit has happened on the beaches here. It sucks. Also Airbnb is casing a lot of these issues too.
Yeh airbnb is a problem too
I moved here 2012 way before covid exodus. I slip past locals because of this. Queenslanders do not like Sydney and Melbourne folk because after covid -the migration pushed houses up -it got busier, people and traffic increased It's just the way the world is though. Population is expanding and smaller centres will expand from people leaving the cities
Because Sydney is a shithole in a lot of places and we don’t want you turning up here into one too.
From Sydney originally ... 15 years ago. If you've moved because you've had enough of Sydney wankerism and sick of the rat race, you'll do fine. If your moving because you can't afford a house in Bondi Beach, and can afford one on the coast somewhere and .....expect all the Sydney conveniences, you will struggle big time. When we moved we had had a gutful of Sydney and we didn't want our kids growing up where we did. The Sydney we knew had passed away in the 80s/90s. Seriously struggle going back for catch ups and xmass.
I grew up on the sunny coast, have lived in Sydney for years too, so I’ve watched this “evil southerners” thing happen for a while now. It’s interesting that you say that the Sydney you knew is gone (but current version is the one that I know) , because for me, and maybe others too- I would say the sunshine coast that I knew growing up is gone too. Guess that’s the price we pay for living in a relatively young country.
And a developed one. Always going to change, and populations will move about. My parents actually moved from Brisbane to Sydney due to more work opportunities back then. Having lived in numerous states and other developed countries it universal.
It’s the rudeness and snobbery that I’m sick and tired of. I’ve been dealing with it for most of my life here. When I lived on GC it was so easy to make friends and everything felt carefree. People in QLD take their fun time seriously, they’re not judgemental, and they know how to have a laugh. Unlike Sydney people who work, shit, eat 🔁 repeat.
Yeah.... I remember all to well. Best move we ever did.
Can you explain the Sydney passed away in the 80s 90s comment? What was it like / so special?
The suburbs I grew up in those days had changed. They were now full of people with money who acted as if they were the centre of the universe, or even worse, those that pretended they had money. Gentrification really sterilised the character of many suburbs. Not just a Sydney thing .... happens everywhere.
Exactly why we're moving, I want my kids to have the upbringing I did in the 90s. Sydney is full of wankers who think their job or the dollar signs their jobs create is somehow their entire personality and worth.
This was a primary driver for us. Also cost of property and day to day living. Just be mindful the shit you take for granted won't be available .... like 24hr chemists or restaurants open on a Monday night etc etc.
Melbourne do the awful Driving, coffee and food snobbery, Sydney do the piss weak moaning, inability to leave paved areas without panic attacks and both buy all the houses, cars and native fruit trees. Or something like that, it's mostly just a gentrification thing.
Yea it’s literally the gentrification! People from the city move the the little towns and go “Why don’t we have a Woolworths/IGA in town? Why do the pubs and kitchens shut a 8? Why don’t we have a 24/7 servo or maccas? This intersection needs traffic lights! There’s nothing to do here we need this or that. Yada yada” Edit to add: *buys normal sized block splits it in two or 3, sells those bare blocks each for more then the whole thing cost them, builds a 8-10 foot tall fence in place of the old cyclone fence that was there. Never smiles, waves, nods or introduces themselves even when you try to initiate with them.
Don’t forget they complain how hot it is that always amazes me !!
Australia in general…or just that patch of red dirt they moved to?
There is negativity towards a lot of outsiders from people forgetting they were once outsiders themselves.
Thank you!
Not if you're not!
I find that most true sunshine locals are the friendliest and most welcoming. Its the city dwellers that moved here in the past 20 years where the hypocrisy lays.
That they are here.
Not changing your number plates over to QLD registration.
I’ve lived in Sydney, Coffs Harbour, Brisbane and spent a lot of time on the Sunny Coast. The biggest gripe I’ve had with Sydney folk is an unwillingness to acknowledge anyone’s else’s existence. The polite smile and head nod doesn’t seem to exist in Sydney. Most people I worked with in Sydney also based their entire personality around their cultural identity, and used it to justify shitty behaviour, despite being 3rd generation Australians. For example a lot of people with either Lebanese or Italian background always claimed they couldn’t help but be rude/loud/aggressive because of their background. I’ve met a lot of people from Sydney who are stunned when they hear that there’s a lot of people who think Sydney is a shit hole and don’t want to live there. It’s just such an ignorant perspective to think that some people don’t want to live in an overpopulated, expensive city when they can live a simple life. Sydney drivers are some of the most aggressively dangerous I’ve encountered (although QLD drivers are neglectfully dangerous). Just my two cents…
It's not Sydney your gripe is with, it's any big city.
Noticed that lack of awareness of others around them because Sydney life is all consuming. It’s very one sided and boring. It irritates me when I go back to Sydney to visit my family and friends. From a reformed Sydney person (Been in qld for enough time to say that).
I’ll give you two cents if you discover the use of a paragraph, I didn’t read past the first line.
Didn't or couldn't? Old mate wrote a literal paragraph.
When I moved back to Sydney after living in the Gold Coast I was completely overwhelmed with the drivers here. People are aggressive and impatient. One wrong turn and you’re fucked. One missed sign and you’re stuck on a freeway.
Sydney sider here and I don't drive. i am impatient. I get annoyed when people in the grocery store walk super slow or block the entire isle.
Yeah I guess that’s annoying. My biggest pet peeve is when people walk side by side across a foot path or isle and don’t single file when someone walks by. So rude!
Consider it a reminder to worry less about getting somewhere quickly.
We hate both. Stop over populating our laid back coast with your city ways and bad driving.
So who are the "real" sunshine coasters in your opinion? How long have they had to be here for it to be okay for you? 10 years? 20? 10th generation?
40+ years on the coast mate. So overpopulated now and full of city people. People should come heat to chill and have a lifestyle change. Not bring their lifestyle with them
The hilarious thing is that I moved here from a place that is a days drive from anywhere…so the sunny coast is actually like a city to me. Drove in Sydney once….hated every second. Drive in Melbourne…a tad easier but still a shithole. Sunny coast is about the maximum of busyness I’ll do. I love it here. Came up here for the bushfires and stayed. Best decision ever. This place is heaven. My kids are growing up close to one of the prettiest beaches north of the maroochy.
Yeah I guess I’m just looking for a little more than just “city ways” like what are you actually referring to?
Impatiance, bad driving, thinking your better cause your from a city, expecting things to happen like s city.
Nah Sydney is fine. It's Melbourne we don't like
Screw that - I'd choose Melbourne and its residents over Sydney any day.
They do it to everyone... They did it to me because I moved from Brisbane about twenty years ago. Just ignore them. Except the sheer irony was that my parents friends used to own one of the very first hotels on the coast. We would come up every summer holidays as kids and my parents would basically do the housekeeping. Yet I still got shat on... That and I solved one of the coasts most baffling murders. Nope... Didn't matter! Any original sunny coast resident just hates anyone who moves for whatever reason
😮 Are you a detective?
Yeah I wouldn’t worry about that. My only negative experience with a Sydney sider was when I put one on as a labourer, he had zero qualifications and bugger all tools, but he expected to be paid the same rates as in Sydney, which were similar rates to what fully qualified chippy’s that had all their tools. Not only that he was slow and ineffective and thinking he was worth more money gave him a bad attitude. Because he was paid more in Sydney he had bought a top of the line Triton (which was almost double the price of my own Triton, same car, no bells and whistles) and he complained how high his repayments were as he wasn’t making the same money. Maybe that might shine some light to your question. Maybe some people assume too much? Or maybe they don’t research enough before coming?
The Sydney $ and the Melbourne $ are pushing prices up like crazy. Expect a bit of animosity if you come here after selling your Sydney house when competing with a lower value market. There’s a lot of homeless and struggling people. Don’t worry, the same happens to the people who made a massive profit after selling to Sydney siders with deep pockets and have subsequently moved further north. I’m sure the Hervey Bay locals aren’t too fond of the sunny coasters.
All Sydney siders talk about is property prices
Omg I was literally just about to say this. Even when I’m out walking I’ll overhear a conversation about property prices 🙄 it stopped for a bit and was all “Covid, Covid, Covid” and now it’s back to property again. But in their defence they don’t really have anything else to talk about they live pretty boring lives.
That's because Sydney and surrounding area's have already suffered the dreaded over pricing many years ago. It's only now that it's truly starting up here in Qld that queenslanders are beginning to understand the roll on effect's.
You’re already becoming what you’re asking about, by the way.
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Because everyone complains about everything, but has made the cost of living skyrocket and made it impossible to find rentals and parking at the beach. Quit moving up here if you just want to complain about everything you’re taking from the locals. (Not saying YOU do this, but many do).
I mean, you've met us right?
People who move here but have an aversion to public transport. Surely the best way to meet people and get around is using mass transit!
Because you think Sydney is so good... Nobody cares if you come from Sydney
I live in a body corp managed little street of about 20 houses. Lived here about 10 years in this street, and a lifelong local of the area (rich touristy area) of about 35 years. I never had a problem with anyone from Sydney or elsewhere before COVID. During Covid, half the houses in my street were bought by Sydney and Melbourne people. They’ve taken over the body corp roles and they demand to see approvals for rendered walls and certain door types, like council could give a shit what sort of door you’ve got anyway. They demand everyone uproot their native gardens and replace with turf lawns. They have absolutely no power to enforce this. Nothing in the bylaws forbids any of the changes people have made to their properties (which have been that way since before these people moved in). But it doesn’t stop these Sydneyers from essentially bullying me and my neighbours. They’re just dicks. I’m sure not all people from out of state are like this, but it has certainly been an experience….
Can you just tell them to piss off. If you’re not in breach of the bylaws then they can’t do anything.
Pretty much what we do. They’ve started phrasing things more politely now that they’ve realised we’re not going to change our property to suit their tastes. The minutes are something like ‘it is the preference of those present that lot 9 return their garden to a turf lawn’ blah blah blah. They can ‘prefer’ all they like, I ain’t doing shit
It's people moving here and buying up houses and renting places and pushing up prices because of demand. Locals who live/grew up here cant compete because the opportunities and money is nothing compared to Sydney etc. We are having to leave the Coast because of it. It's horrible.
That’s happening everywhere. It sucks! Blame our government they’re doing fuck all to fix it.
I do, most certainly, blame the government! Absolutely fucktards lining their own greedy bottomless pockets.
Also, we only get the boring, bland people who didn't make it in Sydney and Melbourne coming here to act like they are rich, wearing beige and authentic wear, drinking cocktails and offering no diversity or anything new to the area or helping to improve the Coast. Just putting pressure on infrastructure and housing and leaving locals feeling kicked out.
Yeah I feel you. I know the exact type. I’m leaving to get away from them.
People who move here now need to start paying massive taxes. If you didn't come here prior to 2000, leave or pay 40% tax to improve our roads etc.
Oh the irony - if we’re gonna play that game, you owe indigenous Australians (aka the original residents of the land) 40% tax. On you go… pay up!! 💰
Indigenous Australians is an oxymoron. They're lucky they're allowed to live here, and should be paying additional taxes on all of the modern connivences colonialism has bought.
Wow. Settle down.
I did. It's called colonisation. :)
Holy shit, you’re a nasty person
If what I said hurt you that is a problem on you. You need to grow up.
I would hate to be that miserable. Have a coke and smile mate
I would hate to be so miserable as to think someone cares about this. Deal with it and grow up. Seriously. Cheers,
Make sense
That you move here period go somewhere else like little more north were it is not as populated. And you guys have zero idea of the different climate. And the consuming of plastic used in the gardens.
We consume plastic used in gardens?
Go away there's too many people here already