I'm a Sydney - NSW person.
I have lived in Melbourne for 7 years and discovered that its just the same **** with a different smell.
Maybe if all the States were not 'generalised' (like Sydney has AFL, Melbourne has NRL) like a Pauline Hanson's ONE NATION, and were allowed to 'be different', then maybe they might just 'smell'.
I left Sydney late last year - no job, no place to live, but in a Tent in some really nice Nat Park and bushland places.
All is good now. Living on the coast, good job, etc.
I found living in the Riverina a surprise.
Plenty of work, Booming Food Industries.
The 'Rural' people (because the Riverina is more 'rural', than it is 'country') are very nice people and it was like a trip in time, where you can leave your car window down on a main street parking.
I found the people of the Riverina are very 'friendly' people.
I would live again at Leeton and life 'out there'.
But I also enjoy my 'scuba diving'.
If Australia is being run like NSW, which is being run like Sydney (which is being run by everyone from Over Seas or Ex-Patriot Australians) - then it is a very LOST CAUSE.
NSW/Sydney had its Golden Era back before 2000AD
Now, its 'out of control' and shows all the signs of a...