Its been a great read in here.
Where I live, which is outer suburb / country east of Melb, wineries spill chemicals into the waterways and strip the mountains ( not to mention destroying goldfields which are supposibly heritage listed ), then they have their 2mil house on top of the mountain which no ones ever been allowed to strip before so they have a view.. shops here were once milkbars and local business for trade, now though, between the derelict shopfronts that sell art deco kitchen tops and fake 'hippie' stuff ordered from bali which no one buys. Tourists pour in, so now its declared a 'tourist zone'..prices even on milk have soared. Living has become expensive and the town have very little to offer to the original residents.
Carparks and roads cannot hold the number of vehicles now, so traffic jams and more accidents / deaths ( mostly under 30s ).. the way they fix this is by putting cops and fixed speed cameras everywhere. Then you can't get to work at all when your license is lost if caught even 3km over the speed limit. Driving in such frustrating traffic when i could be home in 2mins, now turned 20mins and a lot of angry drivers are out there. A recent 3.2 billion dollars were put into the roads..now I was expecting new road surfaces and actual works..but it seems 3.4billion can only afford speed signs limiting 80kmh to 50kmh at every chance they get, and adding bumper rails around the highways, which imo, bounce cars directly back into traffic, causing worse accidents.
There is litterally nothing for teens or mid 20s to do here but go to the pub and drink while business owners and rich folk from far away basically destroy what we once had. Within all this stress for young families, they bring out new laws which causes the suicide rate to soar and parents expelled from their children in a blink of an eye. Divorce and seperation has become an ill trend. I've lost soo many friends to car accidents, drugs, death and murder - all which could have been prevented. The government, the cops, the now, needs to fix it for the future.
Cigarrettes and alcohol should be banned from shelf sales. GPS devices should be fixed to cars and speed limits when manufactured to prevent speeding completely. Australian jobs should be kept for Australians. If I can figure solutions from my shed but a whole society of laws and government can't.. what motivation do we have in life, knowing how temporarily misplaced the past years have been, and still seeing no REAL movements to fix it..but merely more 'cover up' attempts.
As stated earlier by Tim, LC75 and others, withought work and 'something to do' ( knowledge ).. the place crumbles. What do we do it when it crumbles? Throw out the trash....
easy way out again and leaves many families in a position they will never get out of.
I don't expect anyone to like my comment here, its what I see with my own eyes and what I live in ( summarized largely ) Its fine with me if you dissagree
*edited back in but if causes argument pls remove*
