How bad are the Sydney Slums? (Or Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth for that matter.) Are they really big? really that bad? ...compared to their American counterparts? Or just 'interesting' places to be. Does anyone have pictures? opcorn: Like these? of SF's Tenderloin from some knuckleheaded conservative... : http://www.tenderloin.net/033005/page2.htm I actually *prefer* pictures of the WORST a city has to offer, or at the very least, pictures of regular crowd-shots and people milling around as opposed to the million and one clone postcard, 'Chamber of Commerce' produced skyline shots and artsy fartsy pictures of a flower (?!) or the texture of a wall. How does *that* help me understand your city? I like to know what I'm getting into. Anyway, here's a good series of 'regular' pictures, a picture-a-day thing..very interesting: http://sydneynearlydailyphot.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2008-02-07T07%3A55%3A00%2B11%3A00&max-results=50 If a picture's worth a thousand words...then a thousand pictures are worth...um...
Sorry to disappoint you but there aren't really any slums in Sydney. However, we do have our share of homeless, housing commission areas and bad suburbs in Outer Western-Sydney (we call them westies or bogans). Redfern comes to mind. It is a suburb with a lot of housing commission for Indigenousness Australians (i.e. Aborigines). It is a safe enough suburb but just don't try your luck, especially since there is nothing worth seeing any way...
When i stayed in Kings Cross, Sydney if i got up early in the morning there was needles lying all over the place in ally ways, before they were cleaned away. This is quite slummy in my opinion, place is also full of strip joints, hookers and rip off street dealers, what more do you want from a slum hehe.
Yes. King's Cross is a notorious shithole. Ive been propositioned by working girls at the railway station there twice: Once when I was standing on the platform about to board a train, wearing a suit and clearly on my way to work. And the other time in front of my then girlfriend at a coffee shop. I must look like a dirty old man or something....... But the whole place has turned into a backpacker's ghetto recently. Most of the drugs and seediness has moved out, and it does border Potts Point, which is a pretty, pretty expensive piece of real estate. So it's not so "slummy" now. It's pretty tame, compared to red light areas in other cities around the world. Oh yeah, and our esteemed rugby league players like to hang out in the bars around there as well.....at least, they did until the drive by shootings....
Yeah, Kings Cross is pretty shitty. And if i remember correctly, Oxford Street in Darlinghurst and Paddington is an area that you might want to watch out for your wallet or purse. Also watch your ass in Canterbury, but that is pretty far southwest, so you probably won't be going down there. It's pretty rough, plus that is where the Bulldogs football club is located, and Bulldogs fans are generally to be avoided. Go the Sharks!! Crime in Sydney is much less common than in a US city of comparable size. Still, somehow I never manage to get robbed in the US, despite frequent travels to NYC, Memphis, DC and other cities and being from Miami. Where was I robbed? In Sydney. On the corner of abercrombie and cleveland. Also, I've been robbed in Paris, Paris should be avoided more than Canterbury, but that's another story. Basically, I just mean, it's not as much a concern in Sydney compared to, say, Detroit. But whereever you are, you got to watch yo ass.
Yeah. Cantebury is a dive. A lot of Oxford St has been cleaned up now. Once you get down near Victoria Barracks and Centenial Park it's full of expensive boutiques and restaraunts.
Another thing, when I was staying in Sydney a queer got his ass kicked, BIG TIME, in that little tunnel that passes under the train tracks right by bedford and albermarle in Newtown. This is of course right in front of my house, and it is a tunnel that I walked through dozens of times. Now, I'm no queer, but no human being deserves to be treated like that and it scared the crap out of me that that kind of shit can go down right where I live.
there are no slums in australia kings cross isn't a slum, it does have a few drug users and other characters but it is hardly third world. australia doesn't waste too much of its time and money attacking other countries, it has a "reasonable" healthcare system (you have to keep your wits about you - you should accompany a relative to hospital and immediately seek alternative medical advice when he/she starts starts doing silly things like striking an unconcous patient to prove that they are "responsive". as time goes by you will probably see slums occuring as the australian government is determined to destroy whatever is in place that makes the country nice.
Yep, you have many valid points there mate!!! Esp the one on Australia not attacking any other country!!
Australia doesn't have slums but it does have large urban areas and country towns rife with poverty and violence. We really do have some dives.
