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"The woman who brought the first case, who was at one point kidnapped and dragged back into a home by a security guard, was found dead in Sydney at the end of last year."
"Throughout that year, I'd see him around the city and avoid him. He looked diseased, not just homeless, but like he had communicable needle diseases and would get right up in people's space. I didn't see him again until 2006, every so often he would disappear but still eventually end up anywhere I w"
"In a little antique shop in the Blue Mountains, just outside of Sydney."
"I've never actually surveyed a grad school post-modernist humanities thesis before tonight. I honestly thought all the shit-talking about Masters-level degree programs rewarding academic gobbledygook was overblown."
"Landed back in Sydney, and the scenery is all the same: eucalypt forest, beach or desert. No mountains, no chaotic cities. It's just boring. It cost me $10 to get a beer and the pub closes before midnight. What's the point."
"Now I'm an old man and all my friends have left Sydney. We talk over messenger now and again but I need a dude no homo."
"Sometimes I go to Double Bay in Sydney to just walk around and get coffee and enjoy the cleanliness and nice public areas and the beautiful people. Then I come back to my home 2 hours away from there and it's just a return to the dirty dark unwelcoming suburban rural streets and leathery-skinned bog"
"Fucking delusional how they act like every flaw with Sydney isn't equally applicable to their cold little dump. News flash we are both culturally dead cities that are playgrounds for the international rich with boring CBDs and 90% shitty suburbia. But you know what? We have the harbour, we have the "
"As a guy from Sydney, I have gone from zero to 100 when it comes to meeting you freaks. It's been 2 months since I started hosting red scare bookclubs IRL. The WhatsApp server now has 30 people in it with 2 bookclubs that meet fortnightly. We have moved beyond just books- last weekend we went to the"
"After Hong Kong, Sydney is the most expensive city on the planet. A shitty house within 20 kilometres from the city go for the millions. The price to income ratio is 15:1. Literally it would be easier to buy a penthouse in manhattan than to be a homeowner is Sydney."
"Sydney has gone back into lockdown (long story) and people are losing their fucking minds. Not only do they take a perverse pleasure in complying with the restrictions, they are gleefully reporting their moron friends on facebook to the police for going to anti-lockdown protests."
"Strickland Building in Chippendale, built in 1914. Insanely beautiful architecture surrounded by soulless grey buildings, I will be fucked up if they ever demolish it."
"I cope by spending time with friends (potluck dinners, book club nights etc) and flying home to sydney to see my parents and siblings every other month."
"In June when Sydney went into lockdown they struck their initial blow by deciding that this was the optimal time to extensively renovate - jackhammering, drilling, etc."
"She was Swedish. Very, very Swedish. She would only visit in our summer (her winter), and she would always bring me these tiny marshmallows shaped like cars which I would call 'car lollies'. She took me to the biggest ghettos in Sydney (back in the 90's, it's fine now) so I could try authentic Leban"
"Average house prices are approaching $2 million AUD in Sydney (~1.4 million USD) and are around $1.5 million in every other major city. Buying a house in an actually good area of Sydney is well over $3 million AUD now, almost $2 million USD. That is literal NYC and London prices to live in fucking S"