Mount Druitt is the ghetto, Sydney City is a dump too
January 18th 2008 06:30
I'm addicted to checking the latest headlines on Sydney Morning Herald and Ninemsn.com.au a few times during work days as a much needed 10 minute break in between doing actual work (I swear). And it's mostly depressing, lots of deaths, burglaries, rape, and recently lots of stories about what goes down in the outer western suburbs of Sydney, from Blacktown to Penrith with one of the worst areas, Mount Druitt, in between. It's mostly to do with bus drivers being attacked, robbed and/or assaulted and I give props to anyone who dares drive a bus in these areas. They should get paid a decent amount for sticking it out, being harrassed, a lot of the time by kids.
I'm at the mounty county often because my boy lives there, (and they have the best fried chicken and deep fried mushrooms) and I'm lucky to not have seen too much trouble being caused, but his mother has many stories of being robbed, witnessing robberies and bashings and 2 people throwing themselves in front of trains in separate incidents.
Then about over an hour away from the ghettos, you have Sydney City and it's actually a lot dirtier than the outskirts of town. Oxford St has "lost its mojo", George St and surrounding areas smell like piss and beer.
It's a shame what the City of Sydney (the City of Sin) has been reduced to, especially on Thursday-Sunday nights, witnessing many fights on the streets, badly dressed people, intoxicated teens and people who just don't care.
When I go home to the 'burbs and look back at the thick, smouldering fog of pollution that I breathe every weekday... I feel like leaving you Sydney.
Then about over an hour away from the ghettos, you have Sydney City and it's actually a lot dirtier than the outskirts of town. Oxford St has "lost its mojo", George St and surrounding areas smell like piss and beer.
It's a shame what the City of Sydney (the City of Sin) has been reduced to, especially on Thursday-Sunday nights, witnessing many fights on the streets, badly dressed people, intoxicated teens and people who just don't care.
When I go home to the 'burbs and look back at the thick, smouldering fog of pollution that I breathe every weekday... I feel like leaving you Sydney.
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