eppo said..
Well i am in exmouth at the moment and cant wait to see far less eastern states plates as they go back home to their promised land. Us born and bred traumatised sand gropers are getting a slight taste of having to many rats in a cage. You can have it all bro.

I would have thought all the travellers would have left long before now. How come they are still there?

Pugwash said..
I guess there are many that know stuff that you don't.

Sitting on the sidelines - sniping, with nothing to add....

I've only heard good things about Men's Shed.

FormulaNova said..

I think Eppo doesn't realise that there are still a few people running around with plates from their original state. i have 2 cars here with nsw plates. i have seen a few vic plates, a few qld plates, and the odd nt or even tassie plates.

I swear that around one of the lockdown periods I had some kids freak out at my nsw plates... yeah, right guys, I just drove from nsw to wa in a lockdown and brought covid with me... uh huh. Clearly they didn't realise the hoops you had to jump through to get back into wa from nsw.

I changed one car over to wa rego during lockdown and even the DoT woman said that most people don't bother.

So funny, people in WA, just shuddering under their covers, pretending they are are not next.

A most unfortunate side affect of virus's is the culture of blame and division.

Guys.... it's coming!!!

KiteboyDave said..

Pugwash said..
I guess there are many that know stuff that you don't.

Sitting on the sidelines - sniping, with nothing to add....

I've only heard good things about Men's Shed.

I made my point. And now it is you that is sniping. fancy picking on the blokes at my shed. Flog.

FormulaNova said.I changed one car over to wa rego during lockdown and even the DoT woman said that most people don't bother.

As I understand, the W.A. Transport department still require you to change to local rego after 3 months,

But - I see an awful lot of fleet, hire, and commercial and industrial trailers, trucks, vans and cars with foreign plates around the Perth metro area

FormulaNova said..

Despite what others have said, I don't think WA/Perth has population density as high as Melbourne or Sydney. This will help. I haven't seen anything in Perth yet even close to the crap traffic and huge number of people that you see in some suburbs of Sydney. I think this means that things will spread a bit slower and it will be a bit more resistant.

Sure, they all don't live on farms, but I find the traffic here a breeze, even the crap traffic.

Yes, I reckon that will help alot, Perth is a tiny town. And there are bugger all people in the state which makes social distancing easier.

Mark _australia said..
Yes contrary to popular belief COVID did come here. Just didn't spreadlike wild fire as we did the right things and were very lucky with not having the population density. I mean like my city didn't even have one case of COVID and Bunnings still has one way entry and exit, etc to spread people out, sanitiser everywhere. Still.

I think much of the Syd / Melb issue is high density public housing. A lot of those residents won't comply with any rules, and are all stuffed in like sardines in hi rise.

Bunnings having separated entry and exit is a good thing right? My local Bunnings stopped it for a while there after the initial lockdown, and then re-instated it again later. I was a bit annoyed they stopped it as its something to prevent the spread, which is equally effective before you get huge numbers of cases, and it conditions people to just keep doing it.

I am a bit disappointed that a lot of people don't login using QR codes as we need to do this before/in-case there is an outbreak as afterwards does not help anywhere near as much.

I am not sure about the public housing, but in general Sydney has higher density. My local shopping centre there was full almost all the time, whereas the ones in Perth never seem to be quite as full.

Some people here in WA think we don't have it because 'we are better' at following directions. Its nonsense, there is a certain element of luck and a lot of isolation.

Mark _australia said..
Yes contrary to popular belief COVID did come here. Just didn't spreadlike wild fire as we did the right things and were very lucky with not having the population density. I mean like my city didn't even have one case of COVID and Bunnings still has one way entry and exit, etc to spread people out, sanitiser everywhere. Still.

I think much of the Syd / Melb issue is high density public housing. A lot of those residents won't comply with any rules, and are all stuffed in like sardines in hi rise.

It's not just public housing. The transformation of the ex-industrial areas around Zetland and Waterloo is amazing. What was a working class single-storey industrial area 30 years ago is now continuous multi-storey apartment blocks 4 to 8 stories high with the occasional 30 story block. Most of it has been built in the last 10 years and none of it is cheap to buy or rent. Even a couple of years ago a one-bedroom flat in those towers would cost you $600-$800,000 and you'd have about $100 a week to pay into corporate fees.
And the traffic in the area is insane. Forget about cycles being faster. Even walking is.

KiteboyDave said..

FormulaNova said..
Some people here in WA think we don't have it because 'we are better' at following directions. Its nonsense, there is a certain element of luck and a lot of isolation.

Some people in WA think AC/DC come from Fremantle and refuse to acknowledge that Rolf Harris comes from Perth.

and I think the rest of them just don't care.

I have met a few people that moved from Perth to Sydney over the years, and at least one of them moved back.

Since I moved to Perth I have met quite a few people from Sydney that have moved to Perth and stayed.

Clearly its not all things to all people, but its a pretty good place if you are sick of the crazy hectic parts of other capitals.

KiteboyDave said..

FormulaNova said..
Since I moved to Perth I have met quite a few people from Sydney that have moved to Perth and stayed.

What prompted your move to Perth: did you get a once-in-a-lifetime fulltime job at seabreeze, commenting on every thread trying to keep the tens of thousands of readers entertained?

Nah, I did that job from Sydney. It didn't work out so well. The 3 hour commute made it hard work.

It turns out that for the cost of housing in Perth, I could sell up in Sydney, buy a few kites and take a little time off work, and still have a better lifestyle.

Shhh... don't tell anyone, otherwise the place will become packed.

(tens of thousands... you really believe that?)

KiteboyDave said..




WA the Rolf Harris State

Rolf was jabbing 14 to 16 years olds long before
Any other pharmaceutical company

KiteboyDave said..
When WA opens up I think you can expect a lot of East Coast arrivals. Plenty of people are locked down in the cities, they have time on their hands, and are re evaluating what's important.

I remember Perth felt as though it was overly policed. Police are less visible in other states.

Overly policed with rules. The cops aint visible, it's all speed revenue raising cameras.

By the way...

eppo said..

and we are the nanny state. You think your lockdowns may have been draconian, we will top it for sure. there is a fcking rule for EVERYTHING here.

I think everyone thinks that their state has too many rules. I think they are almost all the same.

Any particular rules that you think other states don't have?

Maybe rules on not hassling Quokkas?

As for police, they are rare to see on the roads. In the CBD they are there but that's because of the problems there. Elsewhere, I haven't seen too many of them and the way people drive suggests that other than speed cameras, no one cares.

www.perthnow.com.au/news/coronavirus/covid-19-in-wa-chief-health-officer-says-risk-of-covid-outbreak-very-high-for-rest-of-year-ng-b882023705z

So why didn't it spread like wildfire the previous times it was here?
Luck?