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Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo
What do you mean 'coming'? There's been big social problems around Melbourne for the past decade, while it continually hides under 'most liveable city' bull**** title, there's been a HUGE increase in the amount of homeless people calling the CBD home in that time, massive amounts of violent crime in the less affluent outer suburbs that no one seemed to notice until it happened in Brighton.
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It's probably the death of what was once a much more egalitarian Australian society, that's what you might be seeing.
What replaces it is what you get everywhere else - the big metropolises and their slums. Postwar Australia was apparently quite 'equal' - 1/4 acre blocks, a Holden or Falcon, mum at home, Dad's single wage provided, suburbia. It was apparently boring, so we swapped it for what we have today.
The most liveable city marketing is bull****, for sure. I try to never go into the city unless I absolutely have no choice (like Gandalf said of Mordor). It was very cool to go to Melbourne back in the 90's (they had TISM after all), but more recently I've had clients say their city has changed and they no longer want to live there + corona = hey presto, big moves of many who can to the regional areas.