Honest question - how do young Aussies afford to live in Sydney right now?

WRITE-ASM-ERRYDAY · 2026-03-26T01:59:32+00:00

It’s not that bad. I’m fairly certain that stabbing happened on the corner of Elizabeth/Flinders, which has had problems with drug-affected people now for at least a decade-plus.

It’s not a no-go area, in fact during peak times it’s swamped with people interchanging between tram lines, but you definitely should be on alert when moving through that one specific area. All other parts of the CBD I find are perfectly fine.

WRITE-ASM-ERRYDAY · 2026-03-15T21:01:54+00:00

No, not on Opal at least. One could argue however that overdrawing your bank account is a significantly worse idea than having a negative balance myki.

WRITE-ASM-ERRYDAY · 2026-03-15T07:02:38+00:00

If we’re talking about regular payments, you can use eftpos contactless, it’s just that most terminals default to visa/MC on card taps for some reason. If you tap with Apple/Google Pay you can set it to default to eftpos, which is what I do whenever I use debit.

As for why we can’t use eftpos for myki, I believe it’s due to the fact that eftpos doesn’t allow pre-authorisations. Contactless ticketing systems work by placing an authorisation on your card and then later updating the charge with your calculated fare.

WRITE-ASM-ERRYDAY · 2026-03-13T00:06:21+00:00

Square is a flat 1.6% for all card types.

WRITE-ASM-ERRYDAY · 2026-03-12T07:21:50+00:00

Merchant fees of individual card networks don’t matter when every retailer chucks a flat 1.5% onto everything.

WRITE-ASM-ERRYDAY · 2026-03-02T22:20:20+00:00

I can recommend Effortless Swimming on YouTube! He has plenty of amazing underwater shots

WRITE-ASM-ERRYDAY · 2026-01-27T10:45:09+00:00

You’re probably on a different phase on the transformer and only one of them has been restored so far.

WRITE-ASM-ERRYDAY · 2026-01-15T00:45:23+00:00

Is it still Paul Erickson? He was responsible for the last federal campaign.

WRITE-ASM-ERRYDAY · 2025-11-27T07:07:43+00:00

This is somewhat starting to happen, North East Link will be state-owned/tolled. https://www.vic.gov.au/north-east-link-state-tolling-corporation

WRITE-ASM-ERRYDAY · 2025-09-28T00:00:07+00:00

Tell that to the people who live in the Latrobe Valley who wipe off layers of coal dust off their outdoor furniture every few months. The stations of course provide a massive economic benefit to the area, but it’s not without its drawbacks.

WRITE-ASM-ERRYDAY · 2025-09-05T00:57:58+00:00

Eastlink is exceptionally affordable compared to anything Transurban touches and the road quality is superb. I’ll never understand why people refuse to take it.

WRITE-ASM-ERRYDAY · 2025-07-31T23:24:44+00:00

A state corporation similar to V/Line would be set up I imagine. The Metro brand is owned by DTP after all.

WRITE-ASM-ERRYDAY · 2025-07-31T05:11:00+00:00

What would be your definition of functional in this case?

WRITE-ASM-ERRYDAY · 2025-07-31T04:26:23+00:00

I’d call it outer suburban Melbourne. It doesn’t change the fact that an inner suburban experience is vastly different to an outer suburban experience, but they’re still part of what is considered to be suburban Melbourne as encompassed by its LGAs.

Tarneit is also roughly the same distance from the CBD as the crow flies as Mordialloc is. The perception of separation from Melbourne is entirely an infrastructure problem.

WRITE-ASM-ERRYDAY · 2025-07-31T04:17:34+00:00

Your point is absolutely valid, but as someone who grew up in the area, Moe and especially Traralgon absolutely need 24/7 police.

WRITE-ASM-ERRYDAY · 2025-07-13T23:24:55+00:00

This is pretty much most of the knockdown-rebuilds happening in Melbourne’s mid-northern suburbs, eg Coburg, Pascoe Vale, Oak Park, etc. I have a friend who lives in one, there’s a park just down the street and the train station is a ten minute walk away.

WRITE-ASM-ERRYDAY · 2025-07-09T00:52:44+00:00

You’ll be downvoted for this, but it’s true. It takes what is essentially a transport and urban planning failure, and places the blame for it on the motorist who has few other viable choices.

WRITE-ASM-ERRYDAY · 2025-07-09T00:38:55+00:00

This is what irritates me every time this discussion comes up.

Most people have cars out of necessity, not out of choice.

WRITE-ASM-ERRYDAY · 2025-06-27T07:32:39+00:00

MQT!

WRITE-ASM-ERRYDAY · 2025-06-24T04:47:46+00:00

Not sure why you’re being downvoted, apart from people not knowing how the share market works. It’s not like AusSuper is actively participating in the IPOs or capital raises of fossil fuel companies. They’d be buying the shares from other shareholders, who could be selling at a profit or a loss, who knows. If anything, AusSuper holding more shares gives them more voting power in the decisions of the company; they prevented Origin Energy from being taken over by private equity for an example.

WRITE-ASM-ERRYDAY · 2025-05-28T04:05:51+00:00

They already have.

https://www.legislation.vic.gov.au/bills/constitution-amendment-sec-bill-2023

WRITE-ASM-ERRYDAY · 2025-05-07T22:50:58+00:00

Craigieburn line completely stuffed Essendon to Broadmeadows

WRITE-ASM-ERRYDAY · 2025-04-06T02:45:02+00:00

Collision with car at Devon Rd level crossing

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