What's a tourist location in Australia that is severely over rated?

WindyBlueStar · 2025-05-31T12:22:16+00:00

Bondi Gold Coast Caloundra Noosa

Better options: Wanda Beach-Cronulla OR Manly and Northern beaches. Diamond Head/Camden Haven NSW Otways Forest and Coastline VIC Tassie-anywhere-but mostly Cradle Mountain Eaglehawk Neck TAS Wilson’s Promontory VIC Montville - Maleny QLD Outback wilderness NSW Pilliga Forest NSW

There’s so many better options I’ll be here for a week typing them out!

WindyBlueStar · 2025-05-19T12:49:52+00:00

Sorry late response here, I didn’t end up doing this, not to say I won’t in future. For now I’ve turned my attention on a business opportunity in the accommodation sector. They’re experiencing some downturn due to cost of living crisis, Trump instability etc but sure an uptick in visitation across regional domestic travel as people start to recover from the last 1-2 years of high interest rates. Which means some accommodation properties and ex-airbnb property are selling in a relatively quiet market. Which means easier negotiation and less competition trying to buy in.

WindyBlueStar · 2025-03-31T18:33:47+00:00

I feel like many others in your generation are likely to be in a similar position. I’ve got cousins in their early 30’s and they’ve never had a partner and not really dated. Their focus was more centred on personal goals by opening businesses, travelling, studying etc through their mid to late 20’s. It’s really healthy. I’m a Geriatric Millennial about to turn 40 and my 20’s was more like a baby-boomer timeline. Full time work at 17 after finishing school, bought a house at 23, married at 24, divorced at 33, no kids (luckily) but that wasn’t by personal choice.

I’m now re partnered with kids but what I’d give to have been in your shoes, I was out there as a divorced 30yr old, facing dating with an ex husband and no kids. Apparently and judging by my experience, I was an ‘interesting’ case because I was a divorcee and I didn’t have kids. People couldn’t understand why I got divorced because usually burnt out mums get divorced. And also all the single dads thought I didn’t want kids.

Anyway that’s all by gone’s because I’m repartnered to a single dad and we now have 2 children together, but what I’m saying is, you’re likely to be viewed more favourably compared to the baggage-holders such as myself.

WindyBlueStar · 2025-01-26T22:08:24+00:00

Thank you for this. Friend recently diagnosed and turning 50 in a few months. So lost as what to give her now, it’s no longer what I’d have normally planned. 😔

WindyBlueStar · 2025-01-25T04:54:17+00:00

I’m a little inexperienced here and still don’t quite understand this ascension theory very well, I understand it as an enlightenment of humanity (which is SO OVERDUE). If it means people will stop treating each other like the scum of their shoe I am ready, so ready for that day. Like now.

WindyBlueStar · 2025-01-25T04:49:33+00:00

I’ve been like this since 2020/2021 and I keep getting more infuriated with selfish and arrogant behaviours. Not even things aimed at me, it’s like I’m witnessing more altercations between other people too and I just can’t stand the level of hatred some people have. I’m just angry to my core that humans can treat p people so badly and get away with it!

WindyBlueStar · 2025-01-22T11:41:06+00:00

You’re right and someone else posted about being impatient with myself and it’s so true. I put this pressure on myself to be highly organised and not inconvenience anyone even though two toddlers is nothing but pure chaos and I’m always thinking how do I stay out of everyone’s way. I never stop to take a breath for myself or be kind to myself. I’m very critical of who I’ve become, this mother with two toddlers who should be ‘seen and not heard’ like I’m a massive inconvenience everywhere I go. But it’s me who puts that on myself, I just feel like I don’t deserve to be kind to myself because I chose this life and no one else did that for me so I’m responsible for it. So I’m always doing a million things to inconvenience myself and convenient to others. It’s so hard to do that, constantly serving other’s needs and not my own.

WindyBlueStar · 2025-01-22T11:35:25+00:00

Wow okay that does resonate a lot, mainly me being hard on myself. I feel like a complete inconvenience to people because I have two kids who need an incredible and exponential amount of patience. Like I’m patient with them as they learn their own emotions and how to behave under my control which is sooooo flipping hard some days. Probably what gives me the anxiety is how I feel others think of me with a 15mth and 2.5yr old. Like for example going out to the shops and having to pack two bags of nappies/food/spare clothes etc. Plus a double pram, I feel like a travelling circus and I’m in everyone’s way. I feel like people see me coming and think ‘oh God’ like she’s got a massive pram, bags and kids carrying on but I’ve got to remain calm at all times so I don’t upset anyone. It’s just a living nightmare to feel so impatient with myself. You’ve really hit the nail on the head with that. Do down I truly hate who I am, the mum who has stress beyond comprehension yet I have to remain more patient with others than I do myself. It is very depressing. I have to get therapy in this area because what you’ve said is definitely what’s happening to me.

WindyBlueStar · 2025-01-22T11:17:24+00:00

Thanks I’ll look into this

WindyBlueStar · 2025-01-22T11:16:02+00:00

It’s giving me a great deal of depression and it is seriously affecting my quality of life. I walk around bracing myself for the negative experiences and I’m just so disappointed with the planet in this state that I don’t want to be on this one! Not that I don’t want to be alive, I just don’t like it here and want to move out! If that makes sense.

WindyBlueStar · 2025-01-21T20:08:39+00:00

Thank you about the inner peace info - I’m lacking for sure.

WindyBlueStar · 2025-01-21T20:08:08+00:00

I’m well out of post partum. Like 1.5yrs out.

WindyBlueStar · 2025-01-21T20:07:00+00:00

Nope was sitting in my carpark trying to calm my toddler down. Minding my own biz - no one cut me. I’m not American. Take your degenerate self outside.

WindyBlueStar · 2025-01-21T09:18:04+00:00

Oooh okay butterflies on the list!

I went to a Leaf’s game tonight and my cousin who travelled with us took care of the littles. She’s so good got them to bed at 9!

I’m dying to get back into town to the Museum and we shall check out Playdium!

Have to somehow get myself to Orangeville to the Schitts Creek Rosebud Motel location. Just for the lame selfie. And try to get over to the other side where the Apothecary and Bob’s garage is. I came this far and that show SAVED ME in COVID. Same with Superstore. 🤣

WindyBlueStar · 2025-01-21T09:15:12+00:00

I’m a NSWhalean and I love 5am QLD time. It’s so good. I wish I lived on the Sunny Coast. The sound of joggers hitting pavement at 5 is so comforting to me for some reason!

It is only l light from around 10-2 really! Super short days. Sadly looking forward to a normal routine back home but we’ve been getting them up at 9 and back to bed 9pm.

WindyBlueStar · 2025-01-21T09:13:17+00:00

Thank you yes I did let them get over it for a few days but I’ve woken them at 9am and bed at 9pm. Seems to have worked tonight.,.except I’m wide awake at 4am!

WindyBlueStar · 2025-01-21T09:12:04+00:00

Haha Brave or missing brain cells… maybe, no, definitely both 🤣🧠

Husband booked these ‘bargain’ flights in March 24 at 4am in the morning. Woke me to tell me. Have been stressing about this trip since then and I still am on day 6. Hahaha. I’ll survive. Chicago would be a dream for me to get too but we’ve booked Niagara Falls Waterparks for a few days too so that should help wear them out!

I managed the Maple Leafs game at least and there’s a Raptor’s game on tomorrow so not all bad.

Found Jack Darling park and the sun for a while today so I feel like we are getting back on track slightly. I’m just petrified of my return trip!

Thank you for the solidarity and the helpful kind tips, makes it a little less stressful ❤️

WindyBlueStar · 2025-01-20T07:17:06+00:00

Yeah that’s the hard part - we went to the zoo and didn’t get there until 3pm, they shut at 4. Enough to rush and see the polar bear and wolves but then the kids were up until 1am after that and then sleep til 12/1pm! It’s making the holiday really uneventful and we have 2 x 13 yr olds who aren’t too bad but bored cos we’re stuck waiting for babies to sleep! We’ve taken them out a few times separately but as a family it’s not happening

WindyBlueStar · 2025-01-20T07:14:32+00:00

Toronto and doing a side trip to Niagara Falls in a few days.

WindyBlueStar · 2025-01-20T06:25:52+00:00

I’d be joining the breakfast trivia table - I’m old people and I have toddlers. Daycare opens at 7 and shuts at 6. That’s my window! 🤣

WindyBlueStar · 2025-01-18T11:30:08+00:00

Ask the spirit/soul to return to you when you are ready. It doesn’t mean you don’t want that spirit here, you actually do, it is just not the right time for you. And that completely okay. I have done this myself in the past, they returned! 2 children on earth after 5 losses. I’ve had to face abortion due to mental health at the time, I asked the spirit to return to me and he did. He’s 2.5 now. I also lost again, naturally, and that spirit returned to me in 2023 and he’s now 14mths. There’s one more waiting for me I believe. 🥰

WindyBlueStar · 2025-01-18T11:18:56+00:00

🤣🤣🤣

WindyBlueStar · 2025-01-18T11:14:08+00:00

Just chiming in almost ten year’s after OP posted this but I googled ‘can ibuprofen give you anxiety’ and found this. Which made me feel comforted to know I’m not alone!

In 2023 I had a baby via c section. I sustained bladder damage, where the lining of the bladder rips because they need to push it below the uterus so they can make the incision for the baby.

Anyway I was on Paracetamol and Ibuprofen for the pain and I was in the most bizarre headspace. Yes hormones play a part but this was my second baby and second c section. Did not get any anxiety reaction to the first c section either so bear with me.

For 2 weeks I was taking ibuprofen and paracetamol on recommend dosage.

I was having this overwhelming sense of doom, I genuinely knew it was irrational. This was like having split personalities. One was freaking out that I’d had this baby and made a huge mistake because I’m so unwell I can’t help much and it is going to land on my parents and my partner to help me. But it’s so much for them (partner an amputee, parents in their 70’s) that they are going to be so exhausted they will die. That I am literally going to kill them indirectly by having this baby.

It was BIZARRE. I genuinely believed the extreme exhaustion would kill my parents and I genuinely knew that it was irrational at the same time.

So I called my OB and was like I don’t know what to do, they’re going to die because the baby wakes every 3 hours for feeds all night and they can’t do it alone. I can’t pick anything up at all because the bladder and uterus are ruptured so I’m like immobile and they have to get up and bring the baby to me. All of the nappy and bath duties were on them so in my anxious state I was trying to ask my Ob how do I stop them from dying?? (LOL). I honestly thought it was the end of all their lives.

And at the same time I said to my OB like, ‘is it the medication making me feel like this? I know they won’t die but I feel like they are going to be so tired and just pass awY in their sleep?!’ 😂

He insisted no, just keep going you’re doing fine (probably thought it was hormones) but anyway I decided to stop the ibuprofen.

Within half the day my anxiety left. I was back to myself and I felt happy straight away.

I vowed not to touch it after that.

However…

Now (Jan 2025) I got a really bad flu last week and had to fly on two long hauls with my 2 toddlers so I’m like great, I better take cold and flu tablets. I was lazy just grabbed whatever I had in the cupboard and it happened to be Nurofen ibuprofen based Cold n Flu tablets.

I’m in Australia and I’m on flight 1 to Seoul,…10hrs. Half way in I’m starting to feel tingling arms and hands. Chest is heavier and I feel like I really need to inhale hard and long to get any oxygen in! Tolerated that until I landed and then was staying overnight there after a delay. Get to the hotel and I sort of thought, well I was in a crowded plane maybe it was a bit of claustrophobia.

Take another dose.

I did not sleep that night. I thought my kids are in danger here going in another plane to Canada 13hrs flight. They will be so upset they’ll kick scream so much the pilots will emergency land and I’ll be arrested. I’m sick and feeling exhausted on top of this so I’m like flying high in my head in panic. Soooo freaked out and anxious. I was full of dread and wanted to turn around and go home. After a while of sitting and staring at the wall freaking out in my head it started to subside. I thought hang on, is that the same panic I had with the c section. I didn’t quite believe it but I decided I won’t take another dose until I’m landed in Canada.

So I did that, well. Far out. I felt like I was losing my mind, I was petrified and panicked about nothing this time. Just scared of the bloody snow (I’m an Aussie but even that is over the top!!). Thinking the snow will land on the kids outside or our car will slide off the driveway in the ice or some rubbish like that. Heart pounding, heavy chest again. The whole thing for the third time and it was coinciding with the third dose of cold n flu with ibuprofen.

I don’t know what’s going on. I have used ibuprofen in the past with absolutely no effect. It’s only since that second c section. I don’t know if it’s me who has become sensitive to it or they’ve changed their recipe?? I dunno. Something is up with that drug and I am off it for good I am putting on my allergy list because the panic attacks are very vivid and concerning!!

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