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Docklands... hmmmm (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Visited for the first time.

What a soulless, almost theme park like place.

I can't imagine living there, walking out of my unit, into the street.... to what?

Plastic fantastic. The complete opposite of what makes Melbourne great.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Plastic fantastic

They should rename it Little Sydney

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Ouch.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I live there and it's fine? Green spaces. Community library/basketball/soccer/netball/whatever courts. Movies. Supermarkets. Shops. Quiet. Free PT to CBD. Not sure what you want to walk out onto the street to but this sounds like a reverberation of generic potentially outdated opinions about the place. I'd say the only thing it lacks these days are night spots. There's 1 or 2 around but it's not like it used to be with the clubs and pub on central pier.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you love the water it's a lovely place. 🙂

[–] jflorez 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not if you want to actually swim in the water

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What if I want to pee in it?

[–] jflorez 1 points 2 months ago

I don’t kink shame

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I would ABSOLUTELY live there if the price matched the state of it. It does not. I aint paying a premium to live in a wind tunnel. If I wanted to do that I'd live in pakey or drouin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hey, that's not fair. They have an abandoned oversized ferris wheel, and a shopping centre you could hijack the speakers in and play Hey There Delilah on at 2:38pm and get the same vibes as that YouTube video from a few years ago. Wouldn't even need to wait until 2:30am! And the best part? Literally nobody would even notice