In all honesty, I really enjoy going to places where the dreaded "hipsters" hang out.
I enjoy seeing the young guys sporting the neat clothes and short neat haircuts with the bushy beard and spectacles, and the young women with the unusual hair colours and oversize rectangular black frame spectacles. What is it about the specs?
Maybe it is just being old because I also like to see the young "retro-hippies" as well (mainly seen in tropical North QLD and Northern NSW beach towns.)
I guess it is more fun when you are too old to need to compete with anyone.
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Melbourne coffee prices cheaper than Perth, Hobart despite Treasury boss's complaints - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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"According to the Coffee Economist's Cappuccino Price Index, a 235-millilitre takeaway coffee costs $3.63 in Melbourne — compared with $3.86 in Perth and $3.73 in Hobart."
Perth top of the price ladder! Yippeee!
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Surely you don't expect any empathy or even self awareness from the boomer pollies and bureaucrats who caused the housing affordability crisis in the first place. They already have their comfortable homes and negatively-geared investment properties; it's all a big ol' laugh to them. There, I said it... 🙄
Originally posted by scotchparty1 View Post"I understand the issue," he assured the senators. "I'd prefer people to start talking about the exorbitant cost of coffee in Melbourne. It's got to be the highest in world."
Is this satire? It's clearly not the cost of coffee or toast keeping entire generations out of the housing market. IT'S THE COST OF HOUSING.
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This chap obviously doesn't venture far outside Parliament house when in Canberra either.....and as LeroyC has correctly pointed out, basically the whole of NZ would challenge Melbourne price-wise. I do look forward to refusing to pay more than a Melbourne price when I head to London next month. I may get arrested, but I'll be on solid legal ground I believe.Originally posted by flynnaus View PostApparently it isn't the smashed avocado that is the problem: it's the coffee
http://www.smh.com.au/victoria/dont-blame-the-smashed-avocado-its-the-coffee-20161019-gs5kdc.html
Under a grilling in a Senate estimates hearing Treasury secretary John Fraser said Melbourne had the most expensive coffee prices in the world.
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"I understand the issue," he assured the senators. "I'd prefer people to start talking about the exorbitant cost of coffee in Melbourne. It's got to be the highest in world."
Is this satire? It's clearly not the cost of coffee or toast keeping entire generations out of the housing market. IT'S THE COST OF HOUSING.
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Goodness. Australians have the best wages for cafe staff in the world too I'm sure. That is, at or above minimum wage... and the ones making the coffee sure aren't buying their own inner city residences I promise. I'm perfectly happy with the cost of coffee in Aus.
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Bulls@%t. Lots of places in the world where coffee is more expensive than Melbourne. The whole of New Zealand for starters.Originally posted by flynnaus View PostApparently it isn't the smashed avocado that is the problem: it's the coffee
http://www.smh.com.au/victoria/dont-blame-the-smashed-avocado-its-the-coffee-20161019-gs5kdc.html
Young house hunters of Australia, continue munching on $22 smashed avocado on sourdough. The real problem keeping you out of the property market may be the "exorbitant" price of coffee, Australia's most senior treasury official has suggested.
Under a grilling in a Senate estimates hearing Treasury secretary John Fraser said Melbourne had the most expensive coffee prices in the world.
But if rich, white Australians are happy to continue to sponsor poverty in most of the third world countries that produce coffee then I'm sure we can squeeze the price down a little bit lower. And once China's dairy industry is fully developed and is over catering for domestic demand we can buy their excess milk and get even cheaper lar-tays!!!!Last edited by LeroyC; 19 October 2016, 02:13 PM.
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Apparently it isn't the smashed avocado that is the problem: it's the coffee
http://www.smh.com.au/victoria/dont-blame-the-smashed-avocado-its-the-coffee-20161019-gs5kdc.html
Young house hunters of Australia, continue munching on $22 smashed avocado on sourdough. The real problem keeping you out of the property market may be the "exorbitant" price of coffee, Australia's most senior treasury official has suggested.
Under a grilling in a Senate estimates hearing Treasury secretary John Fraser said Melbourne had the most expensive coffee prices in the world.
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You're right - that is brilliant. I especially like the last post in that article - "live in Hobart and you can own your home AND have smashed avo for breakfast".
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I read that article last weekend in the Australian. Thought it was funny, but on reflection, I reckon we should be grateful for hipster cafes. They're trying something new, trying to shake up the dreaded 'coffee lounge' wastelands of the 80s. They may fail, they may thrive, but they cater for a market and when I get to the big smoke every now and then I go to one, have a reasonable coffee and just observe where the breaking wave of cafe life is heading
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I'll just leave this here I Stopped Eating Smashed Avocado And Now I Own A Castle | SBS Comedy
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