True. Pace was slower. I wouldn’t be so sure that someone who grew up in Victorian or Edwardian traditions would agree if you interviewed them in 1980 though. They’d point at the Cahill Expressway and call it modern soulless garbage. They might even say they preferred Sydney without skyscrapers, “stop copying America” and feel more traditional. Everybody is so bad at reflecting on themselves, aren’t they? We need to try.

2000 was good Eh A time machine would be incredibly humbling to everyone

@@whophd i gotta say. 2000s was slick and had some really cool stuff.

In this particular case it literally was though. Over built, over populated with immigrant filth now days!!

Boomers and globalism. GenX never really signed up for mass third world migration.

Not the red rattlers!?

Yeah we can have nice things if we stop wasting billions on nothing. It’s totally possible to have a pleasant Sydney AND the new marvels if we just say no sometimes, and follow advice instead of rich donors.

Yeah people have limited imaginations. Instead they complain. Bradfield got attacked for making the bridge so big. Now if we try to increase the size of things (go visit a bigger city to see what we could become) the loudest voices just want to stay the same size. The harbour bridge is great but I’m glad we’re building a proper second tunnel, better than the first one. And that metro tunnel is amazing, just look at the three big new stations in the city and North Sydney. Lots of space, even reduced the crowding at the existing stations. But you can’t stay the same size or else you end up like Hobart. Visit Hobart if you want to feel like Sydney in 1970s with the same fraction of economy and money.

In 1960 if you drove from Narraweena to North Sydney and paid for your fuel in your thirsty old FJ Holden

@johndwilson6111 when petrol was cheap as chips.

@davidbrown217 not after you adjust for inflation it was still 1.50 a litre

Well we actually had taxes to build roads but what would I know

@whophd to relieve congestion, but not to provide free parking. Free parking is a Loss Leader for shopping malls to entice people away from local shops and public transport. It is amazing what you learn when there are marketing experts in the family.

Everything is archival to someone. “Tell us you’re old without telling us you’re old” haha? I still remember when the Simpsons did a gag where the retrospective scene was labelled “Springfield 1980” and the joke was that this was too recent to be a retrospective. But that joke was literally 30 years ago and it’s been over 25 years since it made sense.

@@whophd It's not the same anymore, and hasn't been since 1988. Saying "30 years" now, is nothing, - nothing! - like it was, saying the 30 years from 1995 back to 1965. "25 years ago", now, seems like 25 minutes. It's just not the same. Which has it's pros and cons.

Don’t insult Sydney now. Go visit the new cathedral stations at Martin Place or Victoria Cross and tell me it isn’t great. Bradfield didn’t gift us the best biggest bridge in the world so we would stop and stare at it for a century, and slack off to do nothing more. Grow grow grow, that’s the thing conservatives used to talk about.

No your wrong, that guy can actually dance

@@markalan1twolol

Yeah becomes ugly Sydney joke

A curryrat on every corner

Oh honestly don’t you think they said that in 1980 and will say that in 2050 I feel it too. It’s called feeling old.

Have you visited the new cathedral-size metro stations? Kids of today will be looking back when they’re your age and saying “remember when we used to build these amazing infrastructure projects” and talking about 2024

You’ll live

No both are shit. Most other cities in Australia are shit now too.

@johnm84 yeah nah..Perth sh...all over Sydney now ..amazing place and beautiful lifestyle..Sydney is cooked

@@ACDZ123 Perth's a frozen wet nightmare outside of Summer!

LOL Hobart is literally like visiting Sydney in time travel, or maybe a parallel universe where no money and immigration happened. It’s like watching a fire that burned but had the oxygen turned down. Everything there is old and the same as what Sydney used to have but replaced a while ago. Smaller like it used to be. And if you live there you learn why people want to move out. Nice to retire to but you gotta have doctors and nurses so what do you do? The only functional solution is for people to remote work there in their healthy years with young families, for the percentage of jobs that actually don’t need an office.

Perth is a mess now. It’s happened very quickly. The soul has gone and it’s just another dumping ground for Chindians.

I’m wondering if the building that has the water fountain is bond st (the pit street entrance)? That’s a crazy that they demolished that building

That's awesome. Hope you're doing well all these years later.

Also incompetence.

Was theany pollitical correctness in 1981?.