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Melbourne
>We've doubled our population in 20 years in Melbourne because gdp must go up. Of course this leads to increased homelessness but at least big business, real estate and finance are richer
>Chinese and Indians buy up all the million dollar shitbox abspestos properties and try to rent them out to us for $700-800 a week but none of us will pay that so they sit dormant while homelessness skyrockets
>Zero negotiating power. AUKUS means nothing. Our strategic location means nothing.
>go to the CBD and there's basically no white people
>Aussies gave up and just live on benefits. many people causally take vape, cocaine, ice, acid and speed to cope and escape
>constantly told "If Australia doesn't import Chinese and Indians, it will fall behind"
>hordes of methed out homeless people in Fitzroy, Carlton, and Campbellfield
>gangs in Melton, Werribee, Sunshine, Laverton
>Knife attacks and stabbings are normalized
>lost it's car industry and is turning into a service based economy with money from the government. We don't make anything anymore, just sell it all to China
>letting in 100k a month into Australia too keep the economy going but our standard of living declines in the process
>you need to inherit money to have a nice house
>the cbd is worse than most suburbs
>multiculturalism doesn't work because the extreme diversity here makes everyone hyperaware of their roots
>outer suburbs of Melbourne where it would take an hour to walk to the nearest train station, so you absolutely need a car to function
>unsafe low trust "diverse" city
>paying 60% of income on rent
>Australia's white collar job market is trash compared to the US and Canada. We massively underpay white collar workers in this country. The only group that gets paid decently are doctors, surgeons, psychs and other medical professionals because they all have professional guilds that advocate for their members
>Our population is much easier to replace as it's relatively low