northernbird

I love where I live. I am boring, bogan and proud of it!!!!!!! I have a great life, better than I had in UK. Chavtastic mate

debbieuk

I too am a Rocky Bogan and proud...i love it here....Suck it up Princess! your here, you obviously have to stay here so get over yerself

bruce n sheila

I dont have to stay in Rockingham tho , I am currently trying to get out of my lease ....thank christ .....

Amazulu

A lot of bigans are very nice people - don't judge everyone on their looks.

Family of 3

I've been thinking about this.

A lot of the appeal of Oz, besides the weather, is the laid-back, down to earth, friendly, un-stuck up people who are not snobby. Surely, then, an element of boganosity (!) is inevitable.

But then I'm a bogan wannabe - there was a post a while ago that said bogans shop at IKEA and Target, and I like both those shops.............

Dorothy

I'm wearing a top I bought at Target on the weekend. Regular $39 but marked down to $11.

Guess that makes me a bogan too.

elice_in_oz

I'm wearing a top that cost me $6 at Kmart! Can I be a bogan too?
Oh and my house is mostly furnished by Ikea

Dorothy

$6!!! Wow. Gotta get myself down to Kmart tonight. The best thing? I've wrecked my knee so am most comfortable in bare feet. It's gonna be the height of boganism for me...Barefoot shopping at Kmart. I may just have to get out my dressy pyjama pants.

Seneca21

Stronger economy/higher standard of living/lower population density/more space/nicer residential property/better weather/closer to some great SE Asian countries/stronger pensions than UK/better healthcare/very different attitude to life/more child-friendly/better dining out/properly multicultural/more democratic

In the interests of balance -

Despite rate rises property remains suicidally high (a house near me has just put its back garden on the market for development: $750,000 - this is just for the garden/a long flight away from family/limited TV culture (and that's being polite)/the War on Flying Insects every summer/totally unaffordable books so Amazon for everything

Family of 3

I'm wearing Tesco jeans, but presumably since that's not Oz that's non-bogan.

Or am I chav? (Left the UK before chavs became popular, so no idea.....)

Seneca21

I like to think Chavs and Bogans are actually different groups, not just different words for the same phenomenon.

mrs i

I've lived in rockingham 15 months now and yes it can be rough and I've seen quite a few fights(not outside pubs or nightclubs but in the daytime outside the shopping centre)but I think all places are like this nowadays whether it's Australia or uk.when I feel a little homesick I go down to the foreshore in rockingham.the suns blazing,the beach is beautiful and the sea so clear and I remind myself that's what we came for.I hope you can get out of your rental lease and find somewhere you like as we are all different.good luck xx

Japonica

Or are we hosers--trying to recall our Canadian version of bogans and all I can think of is the guys from Trailer Park Boys

I bought a bunch of summer blouses at Target and half our house is IKEA stuff... the half we didn't buy off gumtree...

Cheetah7

Big W have some nice summer dresses in stock and I bought a pair of leather thongs for $10 last week.

However, Myer has the biggest heap of shite for stuff ever, my pj's fell apart after a month so I shall buy some from Target as my friends have lasted over a year.

mrs i

There's some nice pj's in kmart at the moment.I get mine there all the time and they wash great.x