Middle Class

I grew up in the outer suburbs in a Mcmansion with upwardly mobile Howard-voting parents and garden view to ‘Fountain Lakes’ shopping centre. Boganism is in my gene pool.

Coffee is just the beginning

A new blog called Things Bogans Like  (inspired by Stuff White People Like) attempts to map out exactly what does and does not constitute Aussie Boganism.

The site is run by a group of young men who live in inner-Melbourne, go to music festivals and art galleries. Certainly, the fact many working-class people now have money and live in big houses has been making the intelligentsia uncomfortable for quite some time.

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  • sean says:

    09:41pm | 28/11/11

    hey Danj.  So they can’t afford a decent car eg Porche, Audi, Ferrari? Read more »

  • David says:

    12:31am | 08/11/11

    Hahahaha I met an inner city tosser in Spain who had a faux English accent (amazing considering she grew up in Bendigo) oh but excuse me, she now lives in Carlton. She was a theatre arts student and had just finished doing a ‘rewarding’ 3 month stint of voluntary work… Read more »

 

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