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I lived in McDowall in Queensland since 1981. Back then there were no rednecks. After about 20 years later a lot of rednecks moved in to McDowall from the South. The heat here will fry them. Just be a little different and the KKKunts will pick on you. I will challenge them, r-r-redneck. Like the tires screeching.
Starting in Melbourne which is the least bogan overall, the further north you travel the more bogan/redneck you get. Queensland is definitely the redneck capital of Australia.
Places like Noble Park, Lilydale, Croydon, Boronia are the most bogan/redneck suburbs in Melbourne.
I stayed in Noble Park, while in Melbourne. There was a casino-like live entertainment place, which seemed to bring in a very bogan/redneck feel, for sure.
I just found it funny you mentioned that suburb. As it definitely had that feel! Also, I noticed a lot of recent Asian immigrants pretty much throughout Melbourne as well...which I guess would be the anti-bogan.
Thanks for all these posts; super informative. Sounds like Melbourne's a good option. The tourism ads we see for Sydney in particular show Australia as a spectacular and very culturally sophisticated place -- a lot like San Francisco, Seattle or Vancouver. Good restaurants and of course beautiful scenery.
Sydney seemed quite bogan-free to me as well. Not sure if sophisticated is the word, as that implies some stuffy very formal atmosphere.
Sydney had a lot of beach culture, mixed in with beautiful coastline, a dynamic downtown, tons and tons of tourists (from Asia, from Europe, etc.)
Overall very laidback, but not bogan laidback. More like work/play laidback, surf, sea, ocean. Hard to explain, but neither sophisticated and definitely not bogan/redneck at all either.
I guess, like San Diego? Tons of educated people who also love the beach and ocean, and such? Maybe that would be a good comparison.
(And I would never think of San Diego as a redneck town either....nor would I thin of it as a sophisticated town either... so I guess in that vein...just a great overall laid-back place with a ton of educated people...and a lot of tourists).
WA and Qld drivers are the most aggressive I have come across, and with the most disregard for the speed limits. Obviously they are rarely enforced.
Has a lot of that changed now?
I saw "radar enforcement" everywhere, especially New South Wales, but also in Queensland and Victoria. I found that people really strongly obeyed speed limits.
I think redneck is one of those terms like the word "gay" that ended up meaning something very different than was originally intended.
yeah, redneck has a ton of meanings in the U.S.
It can be VERY positive to some who classify themselves as 'rednecks'...i.e. just a nice country person, down-to-earth, and likes to drink beer and have fun. Down-to-earth types.
Or it can be VERY negative as a very uneducated person, with other connotations like always mudd-running in their monster trucks, always have the dog with them, and a gun in the back, ready for target practice out in the back hills somewhere.
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