ozzieeagle

Seeing as this forum is so quiet lately, then maybe people thinking of coming here and doing research on this great brown burnt(ing) dusty soil eroded land should take time out to visit this page.

Looks like Port Macquarie and Port Pirie are neck and neck for the ultimate aromatic accolade.

https://www.facebook.com/shittownsofaustralia/

Dreamy

Yeah, I particularly liked this review:

I definitely liked all the butthurt comments from some of the residents.

Dreamy

I'm not sure it likes my link.... grr..

Dreamy

Hmm... ok, so the link shows up in a quote but not in the post itself, that's weird.

Amazulu

That's the best thing about the whole exercise! Although the Kiwi respondendents to Shit Towns of New Zealand take it to a whole new level!

Loved how the mayor, MP and every Ocker in Kalgoorlie arced up when there was a push by some residents to get everyone to vote for their town. Alas, they lost to Tennent Creek in the quarter final

The most shit towns in their rankings are in Queensland - which makes perfect sense

ozzieeagle

Yehp, thought that one was hilarious, most of it true as well. Hirsuite food-loving hipsters everywhere in this town.

Right I'm orf up the road to sit on a milk crate

Beoz

I see Port Maquarie has the least amount of sex. Port Macquarie is God's Waiting Room. That might explain it.

I spent a day in Gosford. At 9am there was a woman arguing with the cops about breaching bail, 2 junkies in the next street hurling abuse at each other, and a lot of what appeared to be riff raff doing generally nothing on a Tuesday. It's a shame really, it could be such a nice town, surrounded by water ways and bushy hills.

Dorothy

You could be describing Perth CBD there, Beoz. Or more specifically the area outside my office.

Beoz

Ha. Actually that is true. I never feel as safe as one should when visiting Perth.

Amazulu

So the final is between Mt Gambier and Logan. Logan (Queensland, so expected) is killing it.

Get your votes in:​

moneypenny20

Never been to Mount Gambier but Logan is indeed a complete shithole.

Amazulu

So I've heard

Amazulu

I initially voted for Logan but changed it to Mt Gambier when I saw this bloke:

ozzieeagle

Hopefully no one on here has found themselves living in Port Pirie


Can't believe the over the top reactions to this spoof page. Some precious people out there.

scrubbedexpat019

Albury-Wodonga gets my vote. The latter is by far the worst, a pet food manufacturer out in the suburbs turns the town into a stinkpit when the wind blows to the west. Property values and rentals are inflated beyond belief and many locals display a smug sense of self-entitlement at their good luck to be living there.

Albury is the place where hopes go to die. The city itself is physically pleasant enough, too bad about the locals who act like they live in trees and come down now and then to gape and gawk at the visitors. True, there are good people everywhere, but in Albury they appear to avoid the CBD like the plague.

East Albury (where our friends live and we visit several times a year) is bearable (in the right parts) but Lavington gets the majority vote as the area everyone would love to see nuked.

Country towns in general in New South Wales and Victoria are cultural cesspits and many function entirely as dumping grounds for society's disadvantaged. Drugs are everywhere. The pushers do their deals openly in the sidewalks and in the parking lots and the shopping malls and the police walk by looking the other way. Our public library (in one of the major 'regional center' in Victoria) gets roasted for having only eight computers and banning online gamblers and game players. Don't get me started on the pubs. Cafes push trans fats and lousy coffee. The rest I can put up with (at a distance), but the lousy coffee... puke!!

Meantime in Sanur (Bali) where we now live, life is as pleasant as it can get. In the past year six lots of Aussies have relocated to our neighborhood and all agree that leaving Australia was the best move they could have made.