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Move to Sydney for a while and you’ll quickly see that SF is simply ‘tolerable’ due to availability of specific types of jobs

wpietri 4y ago
I used to live in Sydney. It's been a while, but I don't remember it being overall better, just better for different things.
yawnxyz 4y ago
Been living in Sydney for a year, and everyone who spends time here thinks "wow the food is just as good, prices are kind of cheaper, and the city is much cleaner" Of course, it might be different if we were actual citizens and owned property here etc. etc. but as long-term visitors, Sydney is hands down nicer than SF.
- Gigachad 4y ago
  And Sydney is a dump compared to Melbourne :)
an_aparallel 4y ago
Sydney-sider here - Sydney lacks a real art scene, and a culture with its own identity. Outside of down-town, it is awefully same samey with the proliferation of cheap rental housing. Going out further countryside - things get real nice. Though - we are pretty lucky all that being said :)
- inferiorhuman 4y ago
  I always thought Newtown kinda fits that bill.
  - an_aparallel 4y ago
    newtown really used to be super cool. Like everything Sydney though - its much much more gentrified - and has just turned into restaurants and bars for yuppies. 10-15 years ago - the whole inner=west was rife with awesome gigs, international electronic acts, lots of pubs were doubling as places to host electronic - but NIMBYism really got the better of Sydney. Hard to get a coffee at night in the city even :(
    - inferiorhuman 4y ago
      I was in inner-west Sydney in 2016 for a couple weeks and it certainly didn't feel too gentrified and awful to me – there were still plenty of "counterculture" posters and murals and buskers and whatnot. Electronica isn't generally my thing but I stumbled upon some venue on King St and caught a metal show – so that was nice. And, of course, the Lazybones Lounge. Outside of 7-11, Starbucks, and Peets (even then COVID's put a hamper on this) It's nearly impossible to get a coffee past mid-afternoon here in the Bay Area.

wpietri 4y ago

I used to live in Sydney. It's been a while, but I don't remember it being overall better, just better for different things.

yawnxyz 4y ago

Been living in Sydney for a year, and everyone who spends time here thinks "wow the food is just as good, prices are kind of cheaper, and the city is much cleaner" Of course, it might be different if we were actual citizens and owned property here etc. etc. but as long-term visitors, Sydney is hands down nicer than SF.

Gigachad 4y ago
And Sydney is a dump compared to Melbourne :)

an_aparallel 4y ago

Sydney-sider here - Sydney lacks a real art scene, and a culture with its own identity. Outside of down-town, it is awefully same samey with the proliferation of cheap rental housing. Going out further countryside - things get real nice. Though - we are pretty lucky all that being said :)

inferiorhuman 4y ago
I always thought Newtown kinda fits that bill.
- an_aparallel 4y ago
  newtown really used to be super cool. Like everything Sydney though - its much much more gentrified - and has just turned into restaurants and bars for yuppies. 10-15 years ago - the whole inner=west was rife with awesome gigs, international electronic acts, lots of pubs were doubling as places to host electronic - but NIMBYism really got the better of Sydney. Hard to get a coffee at night in the city even :(
  - inferiorhuman 4y ago
    I was in inner-west Sydney in 2016 for a couple weeks and it certainly didn't feel too gentrified and awful to me – there were still plenty of "counterculture" posters and murals and buskers and whatnot. Electronica isn't generally my thing but I stumbled upon some venue on King St and caught a metal show – so that was nice. And, of course, the Lazybones Lounge. Outside of 7-11, Starbucks, and Peets (even then COVID's put a hamper on this) It's nearly impossible to get a coffee past mid-afternoon here in the Bay Area.