BadgeIsBack

The same everywhere, you'd be surprised how well spoken some upper-middle class Australians are. Older families.

Australia is class conscious in that they do blue collar, white collar but in my experience there is more blurring around how people mix.

Don't confuse egalitarian with class.

Keep it simple - if ...you are different to the people you live with it will grate.

Where we live there is a mix of people and people share in common the way they want to LIVE, the fact it is a high income area is circumstantial. My road is known as the Toorak of the village. You can't tell from what people wear as they dress down for semi-rural.

If you want classless - live in the suburbs - that can be very uniform.

G's off... Many Australians are happy to eke out suburban existences.

Grayling

You mean the poor ones?

Japonica

The person I know who goes on the most about the "proper" suburb is a relative of my husband's who has no post secondary education, no professional credentials, doesn't read, barely travels, drives a truck in the mines but because he bought property in one of the million dollar suburbs back in the 90s, he's apparently the expert on how living in an area with the right postcode = class and sophistication. I have to laugh when he goes on about the "undesirables" in those terrible suburbs...

I'd point out that he has a lot in common with the people he's putting down, but it would go over his head really.

herrchook

Loving this....but which one am I????

Margaret3

I have an absolutely shit day at work, and thats the only thing thats made me smile today

ahhh brendarover, i get more and more curious about your sanity

Margaret3

I live in GW, where i would say the population is v.much chinese, at first, it was a bit of a shock for us, (coming from a very insular small scottish place), now i think its the best suburb in the universe. I could not speak high enough of the public schools here, the food and the people,

Dorothy

26 million people live in Australia. Have you surveyed them all?

I'm with Penny and Vim. The Australians I know couldn't give a monkey's where anyone lives. I've got friends in Mosman Park (most expensive suburb in WA) and friends in Gosnells (lower socioeconomic suburb) and none of them could care less where anyone else lives. The Mosman Park people live there because it's close to their workplaces and they can afford to. The people in Gosnells live there because it's close to their family and it's what they can afford.

fish.01

I think the thing most frowned upon is to live in one place but pretend you're from another

Grayling

I had never seen as much snobbery until I moved to Australia.

....but I have always lived in nice places...here and UK

herrchook

Since arriving in this country, I've never witnessed as much snobbery as I have from those living in the affluent suburbs of Melbourne.

Grayling

I think it is endemic in Australia

DhakaBoy

Not really. Apart from a few diplomatic pockets, rest of the country is pretty much flat. Most areas will have a mix of people with widely varying profiles. A person will be judged more on his/her family background, education level, position in job hierarchy, historical wealth (as opposed to new money) etc. Oftentimes places will be identified with some families who live there, not the other way round. No, its not a utopia. Country is generally the biggest shit hole in the world, full of corruption, crime, injustice and you name it. Its the worst place to raise a family.

Grayling

You will feel right at home here then

herrchook

I sincerely doubt that's true!

DhakaBoy

herrchook, I was referring to Bangladesh where I live now..... in response to another poster's question here.