Roasted Apr 12, 2026375 views1 share376 pts
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Sydney made headlines when an Australian columnist linked millennials' inability to afford housing to their habit of eating "smashed avo toast" instead of saving for deposits, making this cafe staple an ironic food trend in Sydney, one of the most unaffordable housing markets in the world. Nothing says "I'll never own property" quite like paying restaurant prices for something you could make for $3 at home.
Australians were so unimpressed by Starbucks that it closed about 70 of its 87 stores in 2008, one of the most humiliating retreats in the company's history. Sydney and Melbourne residents will literally debate which city's coffee is better, and locals queue for their favorite café rather than drink an "inferior" brew. Imagine being so pretentious about bean water that you sent a global corporation packing.
There's a joke that Bondi Beach is famous for being famous, and in some ways it's true. Compared to Melbourne, Sydney is much more pricey in terms of rent, food and transport, with its non-grid-twisting-turning city too perplexing for many, and when it rains, it feels like the whole sky got a grudge. You're paying premium prices to get lost in the rain while posing next to an overrated sail-shaped building.
Expect the following stereotypes: Sydneysiders are yuppies. Bondi offers an unusual combination of laid back coastal lifestyle and cosmopolitan buzz - once a working class suburb, these days it's more glamorous and upscale, revealing a fascinating cross-section of humanity: botox and thongs, prams and surfboards, billionaires and backpackers. When your beach suburb has more Botox than a Beverly Hills clinic, maybe it's time to admit the stereotype fits.
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