Austerity or what?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I wish I lived in a right wing country like Austria where I can walk around any time of the day or night and feel safe and secure, travel in non-vandalized public transport and in a graffiti-free city.

There's no freedom at all if one cannot walk the streets. The freedoms I particularly enjoy are those of hard work, drawing a good income and being able to walk the streets (as I did in Vienna).

Then why don't you? It's a free country.

[Flosshilde]

Oh no, she's back

We also talked about the new trains which our state government has delivered and how these have recently been horribly vandalized by those who sit on their butts .

Clever - vandalising trains while you're sitting down.

[Tarantella]

Oh no, she's back



Clever - vandalising trains while you're sitting down.

That's right - tearing at the windows with a pocket knife and putting their names there for posterity. They are multi-skilled after all!! But you couldn't do it with your out-sized chip on your shoulder.

[Tarantella]

Then why don't you? It's a free country.

I'd love to but immigration seems restricted if you're over 50 and not working. I looked into it very thoroughly while we lived there in 2011. They've said it will be OK if we have "lots of money"!! Vienna is the most magnificent city in the world and, like New York, it has a zero tolerance attitude towards anti-social behaviour which it is prepared to enforce. Not so in Sydney where public drunkenness is our shame, not to mention unsafe streets. Gotta love that free society.

[Flosshilde]

I'd love to but immigration seems restricted if you're over 50 and not working.

That's the problem with "a right wing country like Austria" - it won't let just anybody in - especially someone who doesn't want to work & will likely be a drain on health & social care

I seems to me that the rabid right whinge as much as they say the left does, & have equally large chips on their shoulders.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I seems to me that the rabid right whinge as much as they say the left does, & have equally large chips on their shoulders.

"Chips"?! Ryddu Roast Potatoes in some cases!

[amateur51]

I'd love to but immigration seems restricted if you're over 50 and not working. I looked into it very thoroughly while we lived there in 2011. They've said it will be OK if we have "lots of money"!! Vienna is the most magnificent city in the world and, like New York, it has a zero tolerance attitude towards anti-social behaviour which it is prepared to enforce. Not so in Sydney where public drunkenness is our shame, not to mention unsafe streets. Gotta love that free society.

Isn't entry to Australia similarly restricted or have things eased since that nice Mr Howard got the bum's rush?

[eighthobstruction]

Drunks on the street??....high paid successful beer executives 'just loving it'....

Hard-work = Success (Always)[for all]= Making money....Discuss

Sharp tongued undergraduates on trains....please please be careful of the mock-leather ....

Vienna = Oasis....Discuss

[amateur51]

I'd love to but immigration seems restricted if you're over 50 and not working. I looked into it very thoroughly while we lived there in 2011. They've said it will be OK if we have "lots of money"!! Vienna is the most magnificent city in the world and, like New York, it has a zero tolerance attitude towards anti-social behaviour which it is prepared to enforce. Not so in Sydney where public drunkenness is our shame, not to mention unsafe streets. Gotta love that free society.

In some survey or other Sydney has been rated the second happiest city in the world in which to live - perhaps you need to lighten up? - or as you say, move

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2274231/Worlds-happiest-cities-San-Francisco-Americas-number-city-rivaling-Rio-Jenerio-first.html

[Flosshilde]

Austerity or what?

They've said it will be OK if we have "lots of money"!!

But you're always boasting about how you made

[Flosshilde]

Yesterday I was having a long talk with one of my sisters ... We both commented that not one of our four sisters experienced poverty and that we were all financially successful after decades of hard work. That doesn't happen by ... commiserating with others

What a lovely family.

[Tarantella]

In some survey or other Sydney has been rated the second happiest city in the world in which to live - perhaps you need to lighten up? - or as you say, move

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...rio-first.html

I could lighten up, yes, or write 14,140 posts complaining about the world, with some of this actually about music. Yes, Sydney has that rating but I'm very skeptical of these 'lists'. But, it's great to come to Radio 3 Forum to get an excellent example of GROUP-THINK.

Come to Sydney to live if you like - that way you won't have much to complain about, oh, except rents and property prices which equal those of New York, drunks on the streets, violence and other nightly anti-social behaviour, shocking public transport (vandalized to the max) and woeful roads. What are they comparing this city to? South Africa? Vienna was far far far better than Sydney and voted 3 years in a row as "the world's most liveable city". So much for surveys. BTW, the people of Melbourne would laugh heartily about the survey saying that about Sydney.

But Sydney DOES have views. What's not to love about Sydney Harbour? You can buy yourself a modest bungalow on the shores of the harbour for about 16 million dollars.

[Tarantella]

What a lovely family.

Thanks. I think so too!! And successful, comrade.

[Tarantella]

But you're always boasting about how you made

Perhaps I can give you some clues. First one: remove chip from shoulder. Second: work really, really, really hard. Deep down I know you don't mind that people actually earn lots of money through hard work. Unbelievable, I know, but still possible. At least in Australia and certainly in the USA.

[french frank]

I could lighten up, yes, or write 14,140 posts complaining about the world, with some of this actually about music.

One might perhaps point out that of your total of 49 posts, 16 have been on this thread, and a previous 18 on your own thread 'Shriver speaks about anger, exclusion and violence'. I only see 2 in the last 40 about R3 or music...