Sydney = Overrated?

Opinion by Snerkie posted 9 months ago

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Okay, the title may "shock" some people but I will explain the whole thing...

Hello, I am Krystal, 18, and I live in Adelaide, South Australia. I've been to Queensland in 99/00 (forgot), Sydney in 01/02 (forgot), and Melbourne in 04. I recently went to Sydney again to go see the wrestling. You see on TV and everything they say how beautiful Sydney is and it's like the heart of Australia...I saw differently though. Here are a few things.

Dirty
My first day there I got sick, terrible headache that shot my head and a very sore tummy. I had been walking around the streets looking at shops. So many people around, so many homeless people sitting on the streets very close to people (will bring this up later) and smoking...every one was smoking. Sydney turned into "Cancer City" for me, everyone to light up a fag whenever they could, was extremely terrible to walk through.

Fear
Adelaide has been seen as the murder capital of the world, I have never had a fear to hold my bag tightly though. All the other places I never had that fear till this trip to Sydney. Not saying all homeless people are pick pocketers but there were so many around and they were right on the footpaths, brought so much nervousness to me.

Un-Australian
I have nothing wrong with foreigners. My high school had a huge program where people from Japan, China and Germany came over to do their studies but there were a lot more Australian born students even then. Sydney it seemed there could have been more people that weren't born in Australia than were which made me feel like I was in a different world.

Sydney wasn't what it used to be and it scared me. It wasn't a whole beautiful place...it was cancer; it was dirty streets and unclean air.

This is not to scare anyone away from Sydney, but I learnt that I took Adelaide for granted. In Adelaide I felt safe and for most of my trip all I could think was "I want to go home". It was an experience...but I don't think I will go back there any time soon.

(Oh also...strange, odd note, but I sat next to a guy on the bus that said he was being investigated for a recent shooting...niiicceee...)

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	DrDevience said: I've only been to Melbourne and down along the Great Ocean Road. We were hoping to get to Sidney next year though... posted 9 months ago.

	Snerkie said: if you go to Sydney stay closer to Circular Quey (where the opera house and stuff is) more cleaner, the city part is just not too nice to be around lots. (Melbourne is a lot nicer as less people...one warning, the people in Melbourne are scary drivers...the people in Sydney don't understand the little red man means "stop walking, don't walk now!!" posted 9 months ago.

	DrDevience said: HA! Yeah, I did almost get run over a few times walking around Melbourne! posted 9 months ago.

	Snerkie said: lmao, yeah, it was scary 'cause my mum's friend drove us around and he'd lived there for ages so was a local nut case driver D: posted 9 months ago.

	the_bunkster said: im from brissy but a couple of times a year i visit my gandparents in sydney, i agree with snerkie, stay close to circular quay, beautiful sight of the opera house and the bridge, but yes, the streets are dirty and here we have homelesss ppl which is sad, but not as much as sydney and they are not just sitting on the side of the road, they are up alleyways and if they are on the side of the road, they are trying to get money from you posted 9 months ago.

	fuddle said: I found Sydney to be dirty and not as portrayed also I didn't feel safe. Melbourne I enjoyed, Mackay (QLD) not so much, Perth is beautiful, but still I prefer Adelaide it has everything and is seriously underated, it is also only a 2 hr drive from my town. posted 8 months ago.

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