Hi!
First of all I hope you had a Merry Christmas! Nowadays I find very sad how people in the shops just don't say it any longer. When we first arrived it was so mad, Aussies had replaced the traditional "g'day" by "merry Xmas". Well nowadays it is only "Sorry madam, how will you pay? Which account? Sign or Pin? " It does tend to kill the Christmas spirit, in my view, I may add.
As I said previously we have moved from the country 2 months ago, and I find life in Melbourne a bit hectic. I don't really understand why the garbos are picking up the rubbish at one thirty in the morning?
Traffic? Well after 6pm it is rather quiet in our district. Another one which I find curious is why the cleaning lady is vacuuming our floor corridor on a Sunday afternoon? What happened to the week-end? And why are the builders working all through the week-end too?
I understand why an hospital would work on 24 hours roster but the garbos? I am afraid that quality of life has collapsed in the 30 years for the Aussie battlers (the ones that need to work 3 jobs just to survive). Maybe one becomes more sensitive to ambient misery in a large town. But there are definitively people who are in need out there.
The shopkeepers are wondering why people are not in the shops buying their ware?
The reason is evident to me, when one is paid $13/hour and has to pay $260 + rent per week, one does not splurge on non existentialist wares. We met a veggies seller at the market and he told us how hard it was for him here. So please don't get angry with me when I won't even consider the woes of the $150000 a year aussie battler !
Let's be real there.
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