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Daily Discussion Thread: 🐈🐈‍⬛🐈🐈‍⬛ Wednesday, July 10, 2024 (aussie.zone)

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[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

every time I visit Richmond the town seems a little poorer, more closed shops, more people in dire straits. Overheard some guys sitting around discussing their favourite home made dinners. ( The homeless don't cook. ) 😔

[–] TinyBreak@aussie.zone 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

cant even imagine, been a few years since I worked out that way and it was pretty rough back then. Covid wasn't kind to bridge road.

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I literally chased down a young man I saw walking without shoes, he wasn't begging, gave him a 50 and made him promise to get shoes at the op shop 5 minutes down the road . I know he might spend it on shit but then maybe he will get shoes.

[–] StudChud@aussie.zone 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You are a kind soul

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

i can't help everyone but i can help those i see

I should have taken him and made him try some on and then pay

and I'm guessing he's so disorganised and maybe drugged a bit too that he just forgets to put shoes on , or maybe his shoes weren't waterproof and got ruined or got stolen

shit happens 😔

[–] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The rot set in well before covid. I've been working on Bridge road since 2012 - just at the very end of its glory days as a centre for the cheaper end of the rag trade. Online shopping killed that, but it took a long time to die. Re-inventing itself now as wellness practitioners and eateries.
For real scunge, look at Johnston St.

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago

I was in Victoria street

[–] TinyBreak@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago

Oh 100%. But 2018 wasnt anywhere near as bad as 2022. Not saying 2018 was good by any stretch, but it wasnt so desolate.

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 4 points 4 months ago

Richmonds always been a bit sketchy.

[–] danwritesbooks@aussie.zone 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Alternatively (and totally off topic) the town of Richmond in Tasmania is beautiful.

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 points 4 months ago

yes it is