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There are many reasons to move to Sydney’s inner west but none of them is more compelling than your girlfriend telling you to.

Picture of a colleague we drag out every time 'hipster' is mentioned. Pic: Charlie Brewer

And so it was that a few months ago I overcame my bitter prejudices and moved across town, upholding a fine family tradition of men doing whatever it is they are told to by their partner, wife, mother, sister or the nearest woman in the street.

The inner west, for those of you who are not from Sydney and indeed the vast majority who are, is a small enclave nestled snugly between the CBD and the real world. People in the proper suburbs have no desire to go to the inner west and people in the inner west don’t want them there. However despite this the people in the inner west have spent the past 10 years campaigning against a motorway that would give both parties the exact result they wanted.

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  • El says:

    07:12pm | 15/04/12

    Just stumbled across this article.. I live in the inner west. I don’t want a(nother) big shopping centre built in my suburb. That’s because I shop at independent grocers, and am more than happy to as they generally have quite a good range. Why is not wanting a giant supermarket… Read more »

  • Lou says:

    04:12pm | 14/02/12

    Hipsters are just hipsters aren’t they? All the same as the next one? At least with bogans you got different types of bogans… Cashed up Bogans in the McMansion Beaumont Hills/RouseHill, Westie bogans from Scrambletown to Penriff, then they’re the fully sik Bro Ethic Bogans around Parra/Holroyd, Bogans who don’t… Read more »

 

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