I lived in Sydney for 5 years. It inspired me to study town planning because how shocking it is. Now I'm a Planner, living and working absolutely no-where near Sydney...
Ooh yeah, heading down to Bunnings at 10am on Saturday morning for a sausage sizzle, no one would have thought of that. Ah F%*#, huge queue and they're out of onions already.
As someone who spent much of their adult life in Sydney, till 2017, this gets me in the feels. I recall many a weekend getting to a local park at 6am to secure a BBQ and shelter for one of my brother's kids birthdays, and even then not being the only one (despite the boom gates being down haha). My last Sydney job I commuted from Campbelltown to USyd, and actually got a motorbike to filter and cut down the commute time. It worked, I was able to get home, via Canterbury Rd to avoid tolls, in about 80 min, vs 90 min plus by car, and around 2 hours by public transport. One that you missed Jimmy was the long weekend "I'll chuck a sickie Friday, or work a half day, so we can leave before everyone else", with the same result as all the others.
As a sydneysider this hit right in the feels. There are no 'falling down' movie ' whats wrong with the road?' road rage moments as the traffic jam has always been there.
Ok but the Warringah Mall bit is so true! I see way too many people from my old high schools there, considering most of them moved more north, or out of state 😂
I don’t think Melb is as bad as that - but for us it’s that rare sunny weekend that gives everyone the same idea to head down to the Mornington peninsula. ‘No one else would’ve thought about that’ …indeed.
Oh...poor Ryobi and Makita.....they will just have to have their party at Bunnings..at the sausage sizzle ! No-one will go there around 12 noon on a Sunday !!!😂😂😂
Never regretted leaving Sydney 10 years ago and eventually moving to Darwin. Problem is post Rona we have been flooded with Sydney Siders trying to turn Darwin into the very city that they left.
Darwin is sounding a bit like what happened in Sydney to those of us who were born & raised in Sydney... Sydney is now full of immigrants who want to turn Sydney into the violent shytehole they all left. I tell you what, Darwin can have all the Victorians who won't stop talking to us about AFL & complaining that we don't have AFL clubs in our towns for them to play for.
@@Skatted Totally - watch all the ppl stuck in traffic along St Kilda Rd while sailing past on tram. Commuting all the way into the city by car seems crazy.
i suddenly want to have twins so I can call them Ryobi and Makita. PS this is all true AND "tradie time" starts at 5am with all the mega utes on the M5
Truck driver in Sydney - i have a very weird relationship with transport. I don't like driving at night. I don't like driving in school zones. I don't like driving when I'm off the clock. But when I was a Uni student, i took the 4am bus in so I could beat the crowds - both in the city and at uni.
So it turns out that you can take the girl outta Sydney, but you can’t take Sydney outta the girl! 7 years since I lived in Sydney and I still think like this! 😂
I live in SA, but was in Sydney for a week about a month ago. That was enough to make me swear that I would never complain about Adelaide traffic again. I don’t know how you Sydneysiders live with that.
Yeah, I'll go live in Sydney, the weather's great and it gets a disproportionate amount of state and federal funding..... No one would have thought of that
I honestly have never done a long weekend/school holidays/ Christmas run, my parents actually asked us to keep off the roads in times like that, if I have to travel, trains work pretty well as everything has to stop for a train. However, if you are into Christmas, early morning shopping is surreal, there are usually more staff about than shoppers, I did it one year & it was freaky.
Sydneysiders all go to the Central Coast, Lake Macquarie, Port Stephens or Wollongong for Christmas or any other public holiday & when they drive all the way up to a beachside hotel or holiday home; they want to spend it in EVERY SHOPPING MALL. Not out on the water infront of the abode they're staying in for 3 days; nope they want to spend it in a shopping mall and make it hard for locals to park their car to buy groceries. The worst shopping mall to be around during a public holiday or public holiday-eve, would have to be Erina Fair on the Central Coast. So many Sydneysiders in there, they should dig a canal from Erina Creek to it & dredge the creek then operate a fast-ferry from Circular Quay to there, that way Sydneysiders can leave the car at home & take a ferry on a public holiday-eve. But why spend 2 hours in a car to a $250 a night beach rental at Terrigal Beach, just to spend it buying garbage in Erina Fair?
I lived in the Blue Mtns and literally would never drive into the CBD. We parked up at Penrith and took the train from there - but then usually just thought "fuck it" and did whatever it was we needed to do in Penrith and saved ourselves the aggro.
I know this was all based around summer, but for the next one "winter edition". "They are expecting snow in Lithgow and the Blue Mountains this weekend, let's just drive there in the afternoon and we can book accommodation then, there will be plenty around. Nobody wants to see the snow" After ringing every possible motel, hotel backpackers "Ahhh F**K!!!" True story!!
That's exactly why I moved to Hobart back in 2007. Can I just say that it's now worse than Sydney in Hobart so have moved to the Central Highlands 😁. South Pole next stop.
I hate those Secret Sydney blogs because they tell everyone about the secluded beaches and places that no one knew about, now they're just as crowded as everywhere else on the weekend :D 🤔🏖🤪🤣
2:00 EVERY Adelaide person is smugly smiling, cos we have 1) the best airport pick up ever, (yes low volume, but still the sheeples fuck it up by queueing at the bottom, lol, nonNPCs know what I mean) but 2) IKEA and Bunnings are 500m from the airport, so you can sit there for free and wait. Bris and Syd offer free parking for 30mins which is actually an improvement on 7 years ago, when we were all parking illegally on the side of the road!! but if a flight is delayed you cant just do a lap and come back in. and in sydney you need to be careful or "one lap" can mean 30kms and 2 toll roads
Pretty sure Newcastle Knights fans fall into this category too. "Let's leave 15 mins before the end of the game to skip the traffic I bet no one else will think of that!" Que traffic jams 15 mins before the game ends.
Having live sport in three different countries I’ve come to the conclusion that there’s no good way to leave a stadium. The best you can do is stock up on drinks and not move till they throw you out.
@@crystalsmith5330 The problem is that Newcastle could be winning by 30 points and the crowd will just bugger off to beat the traffic. It's been like that for the last 25 - 30 years now.
Honestly if people in the right lane JUST DID THE SPEED LIMIT that would be nice. Thank you. No and I am NOT judging you expensive SUV youhavenoideahowtodrive not keeping up with the traffic in the right lane. Not judging at all.
Like most big cities, if you've thought of it, at least 1 % (more like 10%) of the population have as well. Maths: 10% of, say, 4 million is 400K, 1% 40K. Shove that onto a road all at once, it's called Monday afternoon on a long weekend driving back to Sydney.
As an ex Sydneysider from the Northern Beaches - can relate! People who still live there still can't get my eye rolls when we try to get anywhere from there decisions!
I spent several weeks in Sydney when we were on our bluewater cruise. We anchored near the fish market, took our dinghi to get ashore and after that we walked … was perfect. Now - 10 years later - I see in Google Earth, that the dinghi dock near the fish market doesn’t exist anymore and the are no yachts in our anchorage, probably forbidden now. Sigh, Sydney is lovely but it has its flaws
Less well-off Sydney folks used to sell their home to fund retirement and relocate to a low cost coastal beach town. The sea change. Now that everyone has superannuation, fewer people need to do that. So, they stay put. Especially if they want decent healthcare. This forces the next generation to live further away from what makes Sydney great, creating more traffic jams and contention for recreation spots. Even the most prim and proper then learn to swear like a trooper.
SOOOOO TRUE! And sooo BRILLIANT!🤣🤣🤣 PS: NEXT - Ryobi and Makita's Birthday Party at Bunnings 9am on Saturday, as " parking is going to be a piece of cake.".
@@Rhythmattica very few major cities started out that way. They just expanded over time and just don't have the infrastructure to cope with that amount of vehicles
Thankfully I work mostly from home, though yesterday had to use the M5 or the M7 or the M239487 or whatever the heck it was ... there were many "ah f*&k" moments!
This is how life is in any large city. In Orlando you had to leave the house with two hours to kill in traffic. Plus, reservations everywhere, and long queues on the phone. Not my jam. But it did prepare me to be way more patient in smaller cities. A 30 minute drive? Oh that’s heaven! You live two hours away in an area with no traffic between us? That’s nothing! Long distance-smorg-istance.
Doesn't matter bloody Sydney ........ you should do one for you going up and down peninsula link anytime between this time next month and start of Feb🤣🙃👍🍻
Gosh, this is a great reminder of why I left that hell hole. Living the good life in a large country town now, my only regret is that I didn’t make the move sooner. Sydney is a fun place to visit occasionally.
Having worked in hospitality for too many years, hearing "Just a table for 24" was very triggering.
OMG YES!!🤯🤣
Same 😅
I lived in Sydney for 5 years.
It inspired me to study town planning because how shocking it is.
Now I'm a Planner, living and working absolutely no-where near Sydney...
😂
So ahh, where's this delightful place?
@@M077Y WA
Cocos Islands had no vacancies.
Yup, Sydney left a mark.
@@Matt123a Was thinking WA myself, aids my bias, cheers!
Tasmania. That bit of water has its advantages.
Ryobi and Makita will just have to hit up the Bunnings sausage sizzle, since there’s no way they’re getting a BBQ at the park 🤣
Surely with names like Ryobi and Makita they could just build their own BBQ?
Don't forget to bring the toddler Ozito
No one would have thought of that! What do you mean the car park is full? Aaah F@€#
Ooh yeah, heading down to Bunnings at 10am on Saturday morning for a sausage sizzle, no one would have thought of that. Ah F%*#, huge queue and they're out of onions already.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"The traffic is bad. I'll just catch a train. There's no industrial action today is there?"
As someone who spent much of their adult life in Sydney, till 2017, this gets me in the feels. I recall many a weekend getting to a local park at 6am to secure a BBQ and shelter for one of my brother's kids birthdays, and even then not being the only one (despite the boom gates being down haha). My last Sydney job I commuted from Campbelltown to USyd, and actually got a motorbike to filter and cut down the commute time. It worked, I was able to get home, via Canterbury Rd to avoid tolls, in about 80 min, vs 90 min plus by car, and around 2 hours by public transport. One that you missed Jimmy was the long weekend "I'll chuck a sickie Friday, or work a half day, so we can leave before everyone else", with the same result as all the others.
As a sydneysider this hit right in the feels. There are no 'falling down' movie ' whats wrong with the road?' road rage moments as the traffic jam has always been there.
Honestly that's why we gave up driving there
I'm leaving. I'm done.
We need a sample face’ 😂😂😂
Ryobi and Mikita 😂😂😂 Love it
Ahh f$&@ !🤣🤣🤣
Thanks Jimmy!
🥴 feel your pain 🙃
Ryobi and Makita….brilliant. A comedy duo could be Black and Decker
Or, if the parents are social climbers, Bosch and DeWalt.
Ok but the Warringah Mall bit is so true! I see way too many people from my old high schools there, considering most of them moved more north, or out of state 😂
Let's leave for the central coast on Friday Arvo, and come back Sunday Arvo, no-one will think of that... Oh no
I don’t think Melb is as bad as that - but for us it’s that rare sunny weekend that gives everyone the same idea to head down to the Mornington peninsula. ‘No one else would’ve thought about that’ …indeed.
I guess the world's biggest tram network helps with that
Oh...poor Ryobi and Makita.....they will just have to have their party at Bunnings..at the sausage sizzle !
No-one will go there around 12 noon on a Sunday !!!😂😂😂
Waiting for those big signs to say
WEEKEND IN SYDNEY
EXPECT DELAYS
Around 3 am is a reasonable good time to drive. Only minor traffic jams then ;)
Never regretted leaving Sydney 10 years ago and eventually moving to Darwin. Problem is post Rona we have been flooded with Sydney Siders trying to turn Darwin into the very city that they left.
Ew really? Darwin is a special place and does not need to be "Sydneyish". That's part of why people love it, it's so different to everywhere else.
Darwin is sounding a bit like what happened in Sydney to those of us who were born & raised in Sydney... Sydney is now full of immigrants who want to turn Sydney into the violent shytehole they all left. I tell you what, Darwin can have all the Victorians who won't stop talking to us about AFL & complaining that we don't have AFL clubs in our towns for them to play for.
As a person from Sydney that has moved up to Brisbane, I can say for a fact that BS happens here as well. There is no escaping traffic.
Thank god for Melbourne trams 🙂
@@Skatted Totally - watch all the ppl stuck in traffic along St Kilda Rd while sailing past on tram. Commuting all the way into the city by car seems crazy.
@@ad_fletch it's just pure laziness. It's nice to not worry about parking or traffic
Canberra
And people who lived in Brisbane are moving elsewhere because others keep coming in . . . .. Hahaha. I know some people there who did just that.
Jim checks his watchless wrist... The time is a hair past a freckle 😂
i suddenly want to have twins so I can call them Ryobi and Makita. PS this is all true AND "tradie time" starts at 5am with all the mega utes on the M5
Those names will look bizarre on any non-Oriental children
It sounds like nothing has changed in Sydney since we went for a visit in 1989.
Truck driver in Sydney - i have a very weird relationship with transport. I don't like driving at night. I don't like driving in school zones. I don't like driving when I'm off the clock.
But when I was a Uni student, i took the 4am bus in so I could beat the crowds - both in the city and at uni.
So it turns out that you can take the girl outta Sydney, but you can’t take Sydney outta the girl! 7 years since I lived in Sydney and I still think like this! 😂
This is all so sadly true. I love Pennant Hills road and the pacific highway in peak hour traffic.
I live in SA, but was in Sydney for a week about a month ago. That was enough to make me swear that I would never complain about Adelaide traffic again. I don’t know how you Sydneysiders live with that.
Shhh, Adelaide has terrible traffic ( you have to say that to East coasters).
When your in SA and a car does a U ie across 6 lanes 😂😂
Lmao I moved from Sydney to Brisbane and every time I hear someone complain of traffic here I laugh and ask them if they've ever been to Sydney.
Insanely accurate 😂
not for all of us! He's forgetting us westies!
True that!
Sydney's both mine and my wife's hometown and everything is 100% accurate!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭
Yeah, I'll go live in Sydney, the weather's great and it gets a disproportionate amount of state and federal funding..... No one would have thought of that
Omg... Yeah that last one was my kids birthday party in the park on a Sunday, cos nobody in western Sydney would think of that on a warm clear weekend
I honestly have never done a long weekend/school holidays/ Christmas run, my parents actually asked us to keep off the roads in times like that, if I have to travel, trains work pretty well as everything has to stop for a train. However, if you are into Christmas, early morning shopping is surreal, there are usually more staff about than shoppers, I did it one year & it was freaky.
Sydneysiders all go to the Central Coast, Lake Macquarie, Port Stephens or Wollongong for Christmas or any other public holiday & when they drive all the way up to a beachside hotel or holiday home; they want to spend it in EVERY SHOPPING MALL. Not out on the water infront of the abode they're staying in for 3 days; nope they want to spend it in a shopping mall and make it hard for locals to park their car to buy groceries. The worst shopping mall to be around during a public holiday or public holiday-eve, would have to be Erina Fair on the Central Coast. So many Sydneysiders in there, they should dig a canal from Erina Creek to it & dredge the creek then operate a fast-ferry from Circular Quay to there, that way Sydneysiders can leave the car at home & take a ferry on a public holiday-eve. But why spend 2 hours in a car to a $250 a night beach rental at Terrigal Beach, just to spend it buying garbage in Erina Fair?
For those of us in "rural and regional" Australia, this makes us want to stay right where we are.
"I don't think we'll ever get a park"
HELP 💀 THAT'S SO TRUE, that's why we literally never go to the city-
Place is overpopulated, with a shortage of parking infrastructure. Governments are idiots!
I lived in the Blue Mtns and literally would never drive into the CBD. We parked up at Penrith and took the train from there - but then usually just thought "fuck it" and did whatever it was we needed to do in Penrith and saved ourselves the aggro.
I know this was all based around summer, but for the next one "winter edition". "They are expecting snow in Lithgow and the Blue Mountains this weekend, let's just drive there in the afternoon and we can book accommodation then, there will be plenty around. Nobody wants to see the snow" After ringing every possible motel, hotel backpackers "Ahhh F**K!!!"
True story!!
Trying to eat at the Blue Mountains on a public holiday when you are restricted to coeliac-safe places and didn't book a table 😣
As a Victorian, we talk to our Adelaide or WA cousins about going to see the snow, and they look at you like you're from another planet! ;)
Ex blue mountains resident...don't forget the traffic up and down..
@@ilovepavlovanomnom Lily's pad Leura ... booking is advisable
@@CorporateQueen I have been there before, but it and a bunch of other places were shut on the latest public holiday :')
We do this in Atlanta (Georgia, USA) too. Lol
That's exactly why I moved to Hobart back in 2007. Can I just say that it's now worse than Sydney in Hobart so have moved to the Central Highlands 😁. South Pole next stop.
Exactly! Especially the airport!
This is why public transport is so important.
I hate those Secret Sydney blogs because they tell everyone about the secluded beaches and places that no one knew about, now they're just as crowded as everywhere else on the weekend :D 🤔🏖🤪🤣
Was wondering where this would go …
Nowhere. Like the bloody traffic most days.
2:00 EVERY Adelaide person is smugly smiling, cos we have 1) the best airport pick up ever, (yes low volume, but still the sheeples fuck it up by queueing at the bottom, lol, nonNPCs know what I mean) but 2) IKEA and Bunnings are 500m from the airport, so you can sit there for free and wait.
Bris and Syd offer free parking for 30mins which is actually an improvement on 7 years ago, when we were all parking illegally on the side of the road!! but if a flight is delayed you cant just do a lap and come back in. and in sydney you need to be careful or "one lap" can mean 30kms and 2 toll roads
The worst traffic in the country. You'd think weekday peak is bad.... the Weekends is one big peak hour!!!
We used to live in the city and live in a small town now! I love not having to deal with traffic anymore…lol
Pretty sure Newcastle Knights fans fall into this category too.
"Let's leave 15 mins before the end of the game to skip the traffic I bet no one else will think of that!"
Que traffic jams 15 mins before the game ends.
Having live sport in three different countries I’ve come to the conclusion that there’s no good way to leave a stadium. The best you can do is stock up on drinks and not move till they throw you out.
I think that is supporters of any team losing the game
@@crystalsmith5330 The problem is that Newcastle could be winning by 30 points and the crowd will just bugger off to beat the traffic. It's been like that for the last 25 - 30 years now.
Honestly if people in the right lane JUST DID THE SPEED LIMIT that would be nice. Thank you. No and I am NOT judging you expensive SUV youhavenoideahowtodrive not keeping up with the traffic in the right lane. Not judging at all.
🙄
"A sample face". Lol! Brilliant.
Like most big cities, if you've thought of it, at least 1 % (more like 10%) of the population have as well. Maths: 10% of, say, 4 million is 400K, 1% 40K. Shove that onto a road all at once, it's called Monday afternoon on a long weekend driving back to Sydney.
RYOBI and MAKITA. 😂😂😂
Laughing because I actually know someone named Makita 😂 Very accurate for Sydney
Looking forward to the Ryobi’s and Makita’s enrolling in kinder in about 5 years from now. And it will be all on you Jimmy.
Come to Perth , yep that place between Bunbury and Geraldton. Just another quiet town in the west.
Lol the m5 tunnel you need to get there before 1pm 🤣
As an ex Sydneysider from the Northern Beaches - can relate! People who still live there still can't get my eye rolls when we try to get anywhere from there decisions!
I'm ex-Balgowlah, can totally relate to your eye rolls indeed 🤣 well said ✅🤣
So spot on especially the "oh f@&%" 😂🤣😂🤣
Which is why a lot of Sydneysiders try to work weekends and get days off during the week 😂
I spent several weeks in Sydney when we were on our bluewater cruise. We anchored near the fish market, took our dinghi to get ashore and after that we walked … was perfect. Now - 10 years later - I see in Google Earth, that the dinghi dock near the fish market doesn’t exist anymore and the are no yachts in our anchorage, probably forbidden now. Sigh, Sydney is lovely but it has its flaws
Less well-off Sydney folks used to sell their home to fund retirement and relocate to a low cost coastal beach town. The sea change. Now that everyone has superannuation, fewer people need to do that. So, they stay put. Especially if they want decent healthcare. This forces the next generation to live further away from what makes Sydney great, creating more traffic jams and contention for recreation spots. Even the most prim and proper then learn to swear like a trooper.
SOOOOO TRUE! And sooo BRILLIANT!🤣🤣🤣
PS: NEXT - Ryobi and Makita's Birthday Party at Bunnings 9am on Saturday, as " parking is going to be a piece of cake.".
So true Jimmy, what could be a half hour drive n the morning turns into an hour and half drive on the way home
Traffic is great on Fridays getting to work. Everyone 'works' from home. Beach towns are also crowded on those days. :) Who would have thought.
I live in Hobart, I'm laughing in 'easy commute' :)
Such a versatile tie-dyed kimono ...... great for lion cubs 🥰
Lol I remember giving my once 4 year old a park party, had to drop my older ones Off at 8 to secure the table, crazy times 😁
Ryobi & Makita!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
LMAO...this is Hong Kong everyday!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Now... Don't get started on us Melbournians 😏😆
Just watch the Paul Hogan interview by Parkinson in the late 70's... They stared it all along time ago.. Prudes.
Yup. Peak hour on the weekend is just all weekend. (Well no, it starts working up from around 7, gridlock by 10am until 2am?).
Because its all density...Like all Large cities.. Its a double edged sword.
@@Rhythmattica very few major cities started out that way. They just expanded over time and just don't have the infrastructure to cope with that amount of vehicles
A cave,a creek with fresh water(mm where???),a horse,some friendly magpies...grow some veges and herbs...Ahh-I would love that..
Cries in Sydney traffic 😭
Things have def changed since I've been there. Except with the whole "f*ck me dea*, what the hell?" - that has always been a thing.
Sounds like a whole lotta necrophilia going on
So spot on Jimmy!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Genius as usual...glad we got outta there 🤣
100% correct!
'Ryobi & Makita' 😆🤣🇦🇺👍
Hahaha Ryobi and Makita 🤣🤣🤣
Thankfully I work mostly from home, though yesterday had to use the M5 or the M7 or the M239487 or whatever the heck it was ... there were many "ah f*&k" moments!
Shitney traffic made me rage! Brisbane is not any better.
At least one of these happen to me every week in Sydney lol
Hahaha this couldn’t be more correct 😂
what about us in the southwest? we travel by train into work!
The chips at Watson's Bay aren't even that good either. 😂
Yeah, you can get better chips in Artarmon
I counted how many of these we’ve been guilty of - a lot!
The Horns LOL
this is so true tho 💀
"this hits me right in the feels" ... this is the first time I have heard this expression. Is it a thing ?
Sure is!
Yup
Ahhhh F*ck, 100% explains #sydney.
Left the big smoke 20 years ago. Smart move.
This is how life is in any large city. In Orlando you had to leave the house with two hours to kill in traffic. Plus, reservations everywhere, and long queues on the phone. Not my jam. But it did prepare me to be way more patient in smaller cities. A 30 minute drive? Oh that’s heaven! You live two hours away in an area with no traffic between us? That’s nothing! Long distance-smorg-istance.
Very true here in Sydney
Surely Ryobi and Maikita could have had their birthday at Bunnings?!! The bbq is already set up and cooking!!
OMG I’ve realised I love the name Makita!!!
Twins Ryobi and Makita. 😂😂😂
Doesn't matter bloody Sydney ........ you should do one for you going up and down peninsula link anytime between this time next month and start of Feb🤣🙃👍🍻
quick, let's go to Bunnings to get inspiration for kids names. No-one will have thought of that 😁😁
Lol sample face 😂
'Ryobi and Makita' 😅😅😅
Yeah this is brisbane too.....
Melbourne is the same, except we have decent coffee 😜
Melbourne is nowhere near as bad as Sydney traffic
Northern beaches getting a shout out
Gosh, this is a great reminder of why I left that hell hole. Living the good life in a large country town now, my only regret is that I didn’t make the move sooner. Sydney is a fun place to visit occasionally.
Forgot that every weekend is trackwork on the trains
I’ve never been to Sydney but I’m use this is true
Oh my god. I love Sydney. Lived there for 25 years and moved to a regional city 4 years ago. Yes yes yes and yes!