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The town is best described as being a step back in time to the 1950's, in culture and looks. It is not uncommon for the man to be the sole worker who's ego is with what hangs off the arm, which leads to a bit of a superficial culture. Whilst the social norm for the girl's is to have the children to the highest income earners and to use their best assets to ascertain this. It is not uncommon to find some to be unfriendly, rude, whinge, a little arrogant, narrow minded as they don't like change and certainly a culture of aggressiveness, around the CBD being the highest rated area in Australia for domestic violence. Locals don't tend to venture too far, where a 20 minute trip can be classified as too far to go if you don't need to go. The town to me is better described as a oversized country town rather than a city as it is promoted as, I found that women are the more dominant character than the men and living is similiar to those from low socio-economic area's of Australia with an attitude of affluent areas of Australia, with many having an english background and is quite clique. Newcastle does have nice beaches, good services as transport, hospitals, schools. There is shopping centres in the suburbs which are newly built but again this is just catching up to what other regions have had for years and years but alot of the CBD area and other suburban areas to the west have alot of bordered up shops etc but this has been like this for 20 -30 years! There is a couple of streets pointed out for dining precincts being Beamont St Hamilton and Darby St and some dotted along the foreshore nothing different to what other regions have as well, yet locals believe these are the one and only. They are attempting to revamp the area and change the appearance of the town which can be done but it doesn't change the culture of the people with their obsessive overprotection of the town unlike other areas!! Definately can say coastal and lakeside towns north and south can be a better option when you do the proper research and do the comparisons for what and where, being from regional Victoria and have since discovered better options north and south of Newcastle such as Port Stephens, Port Macquarie, Wollongong, Coffs Harbour or surrounding coastal lake areas. It would be best to stick to the suburbs close to the coast or lake which aren't actually a part of Newcastle .