+ You can make over $100,000 per year and still can't afford a house.
+ You never bother looking at the train timetable because you know the drivers have never seen it either.
+ You order organic fruit and vegetables online, but eat out every night anyway.
+ You spend more money on your coffee machine than on your washing machine.
+ You spend $400+ per week for your room in an apartment with stunning harbour and beach views and European appliances; and spend a total of forty hours a week there, of which thirty-seven are spent sleeping.
+ You contemplate calling a taxi from your home to where you managed to park your car the night before.
+ You spend thirty minutes in a traffic jam next to a car that has more power going to its speakers than its wheels.
+ You know everyone's e-mail and mobile number but not their last name or home address.
+ You can roll sushi, make pasta and keep your red curry paste recipe under lock and key... but couldn't roast a chicken to save your life.
+ Your taxi driver was a micro-surgeon before he immigrated to Australia.
+ Your co-worker tells you he/she has eight-body piercing but none are visible.
+ You can't remember... is dope illegal?
+ You've been to more than one baby shower that has two mothers and a sperm donor.
+ You have a very strong opinion on where your coffee beans are grown, and can taste the difference between Sumatran and Ethiopian.
+ A really great parking space can move you to tears.
+ You are thinking of taking an adult class but you can't decide between yoga, conversational Italian or building your own website.
+ A man in full leather regalia and crotch less chaps gets on the bus and you don't notice.
+ You are genuinely surprised when you meet someone who was actually born in Sydney.
+ Your hairdresser is straight; your plumber is gay, and your Avon lady is a drag queen.
+ You never bother looking at the train timetable because you know the drivers have never seen it either.
+ You order organic fruit and vegetables online, but eat out every night anyway.
+ You spend more money on your coffee machine than on your washing machine.
+ You spend $400+ per week for your room in an apartment with stunning harbour and beach views and European appliances; and spend a total of forty hours a week there, of which thirty-seven are spent sleeping.
+ You contemplate calling a taxi from your home to where you managed to park your car the night before.
+ You spend thirty minutes in a traffic jam next to a car that has more power going to its speakers than its wheels.
+ You know everyone's e-mail and mobile number but not their last name or home address.
+ You can roll sushi, make pasta and keep your red curry paste recipe under lock and key... but couldn't roast a chicken to save your life.
+ Your taxi driver was a micro-surgeon before he immigrated to Australia.
+ Your co-worker tells you he/she has eight-body piercing but none are visible.
+ You can't remember... is dope illegal?
+ You've been to more than one baby shower that has two mothers and a sperm donor.
+ You have a very strong opinion on where your coffee beans are grown, and can taste the difference between Sumatran and Ethiopian.
+ A really great parking space can move you to tears.
+ You are thinking of taking an adult class but you can't decide between yoga, conversational Italian or building your own website.
+ A man in full leather regalia and crotch less chaps gets on the bus and you don't notice.
+ You are genuinely surprised when you meet someone who was actually born in Sydney.
+ Your hairdresser is straight; your plumber is gay, and your Avon lady is a drag queen.
9 comments:
Miss N,
Great list and I am a true born and bred Sydneyite who cannot imagine living anywhere else.
I LOVE it!! Every one so true, and let's not forget the cocktail scene and paying through the nose for it without blinking an eye!
# You spend more money on your coffee machine than on your washing machine.
rofl. The Melbourne version would involve something like you know every cafe that serves 'good' coffee in a radius of 10km from your home/work/anywhere.
I agree with M about the Melbourne version. I am like a homing pigeon when it comes to good coffee. Melbournians are true coffee snobs.
A wonderful list - I laughed about the crying over a parking spot.
Saw this list for the first time about 7 years ago. Every point still rings true.
Favourite is no 1. But am thinking that even $100k p.a. might not afford a house anywhere desirable.
I'm still getting used to thing here, but I think what I like (or, rather, dislike) is how I can withdraw $100 from the bank and, in the space of maybe 45 minutes or so, end up spending it all on: 1 long black, a loaf of bread, a video rental, a tank of gas (petrol), and 2 sushi rolls.
Maybe I'm shopping in all the wrong places. :-/
lol great list!!! So true!
Oh how I miss living in Sydney....
So true So true :)
I know a few people who were in very high positions back home.. and are not in such here. I met this person who was in army a few years back back home. Here is a mere store person at Coles. I felt weird. Why are they even here?
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