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In article <cc8b1a11.0303092122.2129bbeb@posting.google.com>, Irritated
<jesus.im@pissed-off.com> wrote:

> I spent some time with a group of overseas visitors the last couple of
> days they are from Prague and have been touring Australia for 6
> months. They tell me that after staying in Perth for the past eight
> weeks they would never come back here again. When I asked them why I
> opened Pandora's box, wow at first I thought they were joking. They
> said that of all the places they have been to and it seems they have
> travelled extensively, they said Perth had the most narrow minded and
> bigoted people they also said that they felt there was a lot of
> aggressive people here more than Sydney even.
> I laughed at the last comment and I rang one of my mates in Sydney to
> share the joke with him, much to my surprise he said he agreed Perth
> was the most aggressive city? WTF I said you must be joking but he
> insisted that he felt there was something wrong here with the way we
> think, every man for himself and F** the next guy type thing.
> 
> Both my mate from Sydney and the people from Prague said the same
> thing almost word for word, that we seem to take delight in tearing
> others down like its our local sport or something. My mate from Sydney
> lived in Perth for five years and he said that he thought it was a
> lovely place but he said he felt people in Perth confuse screwing
> someone with getting ahead as if one goes with the other.
> 
> Now when I got of the phone man was I pissed off how could anybody get
> that idea, after stewing on it overnight what bugs me is maybe they
> have a point?

I, like many people in Sydney, grew up with the notion of Perth being
backward...oh, and that Queenslanders are mad too...