Disillusioned
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"White collar society"
Armidale is a stuck up place. If you're just an ordinary worker who don't own your own business or have a high paying job e.g. a doctor, lawyer, accountant, teacher good luck trying to fit in as people here will judge you and look down on you. Armidale is so up it self that when a magazine wrote an article on the top 100 towns to visit in NSW and Armidale wasn't included, it caused an uproar in this town with newspaper articles saying how armidale should have been included and the people here complaining as if Armidale was God's gift to this state. Safety here is also a major issue, as I work night shift between 12 am to 8 am and one night a man equiped with an axe tried to break into the centre I was working in and when I opened the door to investigate what all the noise was about the man attacked me with the axe. Lucky for me my security door was locked but when I rang police it took them close to an hour to get to the scene when the station was only located about 100metres away from where I worked. My wife and I also rang 000 one night as we thought we were getting broken into and when 000 transferred our call to the armidale police station there was no answer. Lucky for us it was only my brother in law who tried to get in. There doesn't seem to have much to do here for families. Jobs are hard to get here unless you know people. Neighbourly spirit is really bad. Where we currently live none of our neighbours even acknowledge us when we walk past them, it's not as if we have parties all the time or make a lot of noise as we have 4 very well behaved kids. One of our neighbours have a big dog that barks all the time and no one around seems to have a problem with it but one night when there was a possum on one of our trees and our LITTLE DOG with her LITTLE BARK was barking at it the police where called to our house. People here also brag about the 4 seasons here and how beautiful it is and how how you could all 4 seasons in one day and how you can't get that anywhere else, well all I can say for that is thats how people get sick easily. It's very cold here in winter so if you don't like the cold don't step foot anywhere near here. Rent is very expensive, if you compare it to other places about the same size you will see what I mean. People always compare the rental prices here with sydney and all I can say about that is this is NOT A MAJOR CITY. I'm moving to Brisbane soon and when comparing rental prices with Brisbane, Brisbane is only a little bit more dearer but value for money in Brisbane is much better and the thing is Brisbane is a major city while Armidale is NOT. I know some people might be thinking I'm just another jobless low life trying to cause trouble but I've worked here pretty much the whole time I've lived here which is about9 years and I am just trying to to tell the truth out there for the little people like me.
The prices are high because there is a high demand for rentals, due to the UNE, not because they think we are 'equal' to capital cities
No wonder you are disillusioned with the town!!
Sadly, too many people have had bad experiences in this town over the years, so it's doubtful they are isolated cases.
Having known many families who have already left, I have to say they were all lovely people with very respectful social skills...so what is going on here?
I was looking a realestate.com I saw on a few of the listings, "inspection invite only" NO WHERE IN THE COUNTRY have I ever seen this. I mean how so very up yourself do you have to be to filter potential buyers to a house. I mean all those people who are in denial about what Armidale is really like. How do they explain that written proof that a select few residents of this town want to pretend they are something they're not!
Hello there, i agree with you, i have also moved to armidale about a year ago from brisbane, it was a big change, i found it extremely hard to fit in too, the school education wasn't top notch but the drama and music department was great, the teachers loved there jobs because they got away with SO much stuff, but they were just bad at there jobs. I didn't no anyone when i first moved here, so i had to start from scratch, if people didnt know you they starred and if they did they would walk past and wait for you to say the first greeting it is horrible, a recent friend has moved back to brisbane because of the jugement and arwardness there is between people, no one wants to make new friends because they already had friends. to get a job here as a student is terrible no one wants to employ anyone and everyone gets more poor here easily. the weather is like walking out of the frezzer and having to pretend its normal and if you complain its almost like you don't exist. gossip is the worst thing in armidale it spreds like rabbits you hardly ever get it in brisbane, anyway im thinking about moving back to brisbane, why did i move here in the first place, thank you for helping me realise i should deffinatly move. Rachel.