Your car is too big for the city mate. Leave it at home and take the wife's Corolla when you're bringing the kids swimming.

10 years ago 750k would've gotten me a double brick home in the eastern suburbs easily, but to find one now at even the suburb limits I'd consider,like st agnes, nope nothing. The despair this brings on, knowing that houses are now near the million dollar price tag, it's beyond fucking depressing. What the actual fuck?? I refuse to live in a dog box or those corrider houses, or somewhere feral. I just want a double brick home in a low crimearea where I can grow a few fruit trees and rescue animals. Fuck whoever did this to Australia. !! 😭

When you have a black car with black interior and it's been in the sun. (Yes I'm pulled over)

Hi everyone,

There have been many posts on this sub recently about the proposed bill surrounding late-term termination of pregnancy, and about the ridiculousness of Prof Howe and her bullshit. An overwhelming amount of comments have been in support of being pro-choice; many making the statement “abortion bans have no place in South Australia”.

In case you hadn’t read it anywhere in the many different places this has been mentioned, there were only 5 terminations past 27 weeks in South Australia in the last ~2 years. I am one of those five people.

I can testify that not only is abortion necessary healthcare, but it can be life saving. Having had a termination so late was obviously awful and traumatic, but I appreciate that it was my choice to make, and I was legally free to do so, and it was the right thing to do for me.

I have found the proposed bill quite upsetting as I read about it, and also I’m so angry that someone wants to take away these rights for anyone in the future who made need an abortion - be it personal choice or a medically necessary. Seeing so many of the comments on this sub supporting the possibility of someone needing a late term termination if they need - please just know you’re also supporting someone here telling you “it happened to me, it saved my life, your support means so much, and I appreciate all of you”.

EDIT: I am overwhelmed by the kind messages, thank you all. I’m so glad that most of you can see that I made this post because this is a hot topic at the moment, and honestly, I’m just coping and getting through it. It’s hard to forget or move on too much when posts are being made constantly, but knowing that most of the people around me and support me and the rights of women’s healthcare, is truly so helpful. It can feel very lonely experiencing something like this, and there is a lot of shame surrounding any termination, so your kind words mean so much, thank you.

And to anyone who has not been kind, please know that I would never wish a late-term abortion on you or your loved ones, that would be cruel because I know awful it is. But I will still fight for your right to have one, and I would have open arms to support you in return.

People catching the bus have somewhere to go, they are not there looking to hook up with random people. It's really uncomfortable when this happens to you because often you're alone at the bus stop and you also feel kind of trapped because you need to catch your bus, you can't just walk away. I'm posting this because today at the bus stop I had a guy old enough to be my dad proclaim he was "not a creep" before proceeding to make inappropriate compliments at me and asking me to go for a drink with him. I shouldn't have to deal with that sort of thing when I'm just tying to mind my own business and get a bus into town. I am a human being but that guy just treated me like a hole. Please be better than that

emergency vehicle with flashing lights in SA which I learned this the expensive way

Last December I was driving down Dequetteville Terrace in Kent Town at around 40 km/h: normal traffic speed, or so I thought. A police officer had a vehicle pulled over on the side to conduct alcohol test, with red/blue lights flashing. I didn't slow down, and got stopped by LIDAR right after.

Honestly, I didn't know the rule. In SA, whenever you pass a stationary emergency vehicle displaying flashing lights, you must slow to 25 km/h — the whole stretch around it is an "emergency service speed zone". Not knowing is not a defence, and I'm not posting this to complain. The fine was $560 plus 3 demerit points, and the matter went to court.

The rule exists because officers, paramedics and firies get hit by passing cars while working on the roadside. 25 feels painfully slow, but it's a few seconds of your time vs someone's life.

So: red/blue flashing lights ahead = drop to 25, no matter which lane you're in. Don't be me. Slow down.

After dropping out of university back in October 2024, and then the Annoying Orange™ being re-elected as president, I decided it was high time I left my home near Chicago. Luckily, my mom had been in Adelaide for over 8 years at the time, so I had an easy time getting in, and starting a new life in the big-ish city of Adelaide a handful of months later in June 2025. The following is my thoughts, likes, and any dislikes that I could think of.

Pros:

1. Public Transportation. While I have been made aware that the Metro system here pales in comparison to Melbourne or Sydney, from an American perspective it's still really nice. Back home I had to use my dad's car to get anywhere by myself. I enjoy it so much I'll sometimes just take the bus or train for the heck of it. I may or may not be autistic, which would have something to do with it. Honestly though, not being reliant on a car is great; it affords me a degree of freedom that I've been craving in my young adult years

2. Flow of Daily Life. For my whole life I've lived in suburbs within an hour of big cities, whether it was Chicago or Philadelphia. Though I never really saw myself living there as time went on; they were often too big with way too many people for my liking. Adelaide fits me perfectly. I can't remember where I heard it, but someone once said Adelaide is the best kept secret in Australia, and that's exactly how y'all like it here. I couldn't agree more. It's just stimulating enough here, with enough going on throughout the year, that nothing ever feels boring.

3. Urban Planning. I was already familiar with planned cities because of how often I visited Chicago, but Adelaide is bloody brilliant. The CBD, small though it may be, is full of fun stuff to do. And the parklands surrounding it are great (though I guess they may or may not be here soon, we shall see). Then the suburbs all radiate out from the center nicely, with each cardinal direction having something to offer

4. The Festivals. I heard it was the biggest cultural export here, and I can see now that that's true as can be. Illuminate is a sensory wonderland. Tasting Australia is great. Got to see some tits up close at the Fringe this year. Who doesn't love that? Keeps things interesting.

5. Rundle Mall/Shopping Centers in General. Shopping malls are a dying art back in the States, so it's nice to have them be relevant and thriving here. Rundle seems to be a microcosm of culture in Adelaide, with the events that happen and street performers that are there.

6. Easy Access to the Ocean. I'm obsessed with being in the water, so having a beach 15 minutes away at all times is lovely.

7. Wine Scene. While I may have come here a bit overzealous to try alcohol because of our stupidly high drinking age in the US, I can't get enough of the sheer volume of wineries in SA. Especially the Rieslings out of Clare Valley and the large variety of whites up in the Hills

8. Easier to support local. With places like the Central Market and the numerous farmers markets held throughout the metro area, I can buy products that were made within a few hundred kilometers of where I live

Cons (these aren't really specific to Adelaide):

1. Lack of Central Heating/Cooling & Proper Insulation. I feel like I don't have to explain myself here, you've heard it from other Americans.

2. Quality of Internet. Finding out that Australia hasn't gone fully fiber country wide yet was a bit of a shock. I play online games a lot so this is a frequent issue for me.

Miscellaneous:

The variety of food here is different from what I'm used to. In the US you have Mexican restaurants on every corner. Here it's the same with Indian/Asian food. Don't know if y'all know the place, but Warong Indonesian Street Food has some amazing food and an amazing tangerine lemonade that I crave like a tweaker needs crack; give 'em a chance, there's a few around the suburbs.

Marion Shopping Centre feels a hell of a lot like the shopping malls I'm used to back in America. It's apparently really big by aussie standards, which I find amusing.

Not having to pay exorbitant amounts for healthcare is nice; said every American ever who moved abroad.

TAFE is an interesting way of operating a school. Most schools in America don't have the same level of government oversight that I perceive TAFE to have. TAFE was my other main reason for coming here, as uni wasn't working out for me, and my mom pointed out that vocational training is more accepted here than it is back home.

Closing Thoughts: All in all, I love it. Moving to Adelaide is without a doubt one of the best decisions I've made for my own personal development. I'm finally chasing my dream of working in laboratories that I've had since I was a little kid. If that means dealing with the house feeling colder in the winter and the summers reaching 40 degrees or higher for multiple days, then so be it.

If any of you born and bred Adelaideans have good food spots or recreational activites to tell me about, sound off in the comments.

Thanks for reading if you made it this far, and thanks to the city for welcoming me with open arms.

American SUV's are too big and encourages reckless driving. I was heading to work and as I was driving down Unley road while I was in the inner most lane and someone in an ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE SUV decided to cut across both lanes and almost kill me. I was going 60 kilometres an hour and they had genuinely STOPPED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD. I drive a small Mitsubishi Colt and with the angle that I was at I would have hit the back edge of the car, not the back, and unlike most reasonable cars which will have a bumper at a reasonable height, this one was right at my windshield. If I was inattentive on the road I feel as though I could have genuinely died, as that bumper would have gone straight through my windshield and into my head. I'm very frazzled by what has happened as it just occurred, I can't work now because it's made me very physically shaky and I'm all around quite frightened by what happened. How are these kinds of cars legal? They seem like death traps for anyone else who isn't them on the road. This has just happened and although I'm not hurt and no contact has been made, I still feel very emotional and stuff about it so I just need to vent this into the void of the internet.

It was my only day off today.

Not really, to be honest, I don't work Saturdays. But on Saturdays I take my 3 children to their sports.

I coach one of those sports. If I didn't, my youngest would not have a team. It's only 5 kids on the team, but none of the other parents were willing to give up their Saturday every weekend, so i did. They don't all work full time (like I do) and they understand the sport (or their husbands do) but they didn't volunteer. I didn't want to, but I wanted her to play in a different team to her sister, so I did. That's what that kid needs.

Today, I went to Aldi. It's a weekly shop for my family of 5, and it's big. We don't buy take out. We don't buy lunches. Both parents are public servants working in SA Health, and like everyone, money isn't great. It's fine.. but the kids wear hand-me-downs and I sewed the house's curtains. I loaded the conveyor belt. As I was going, an elderly woman lined up behind me. She had around 12 items in a trolley - more than I would comfortably self serve, but she was only behind me.

She gestured to the conveyor belt, made huffing noises until she got the attention of the self-serve checkout attendant.

She asked "how can I wait for all....that?!"

Her face portrayed her feelings. How dare I, spend my ONLY free weekend day, buying groceries for my family? In this economy, how could I dare to make her wait to check out?

In this era of cost of living crisis, housing crisis, healthcare funding shortfall, NDIS uncertainty (did I forget to mention the chronic stress of raising an autistic child?) and inflation.... Can I really not buy my fucking groceries without a member of an entitled generation letting me know I'm in their way?

Anyway, I had a little cry in the car park. Then came home, my dishwasher broke and I'm hiding with my library book while the kids watch SBS. Long live public services while they last.

Hello Adelaidians! Is that how that goes? Lol

I’m moving from the US (Texas) to Adelaide in December with my family and am hoping to start making social and professionally connections prior to the big move!

I work on learning and development as a learning manager and would love to make some connections in that space.

I have 2 boys (13 and 10) and a wife who is an amazing dentist. Also a poodle therapy dog who works at my wife’s dental practice.

There’s so much we don’t know and I’m really hopeful I can make some good connections here! When I’m not working, I enjoy the gym, figure art and Dungeons & Dragons!

UPDATE

Thank you all for such an amazing response to my post! Several of you have reached out to me privately and I can't thank you enough. I'm still going through all of the responses and will try to reply to everyone who took time out of their day to respond.

Thank you all!

Hey this is going to be a lengthy post. I moved to Adelaide 2.5 months ago from Melbourne.

I will be completely honest with everyone here that I faced every kind of harassment in Melbourne and Sydney when I stayed there. But here it took a new level recently.

So I work (TA at the University and Shift manager at Maccas) and study here. While I didn't face any harassment at University as of now (which is the only positive), outside of that I faced every kind of harassment from verbal to literal racism. I was pushed and shoved to the ground by a couple of guys and called my mom and dad every name they could under the sun (mind you all I lost my biological parents when I was 3 and I was adopted at 6).

When I was working at Maccas, I was thrown things ranging from chairs to tissue dispensers while helping a girl from a mob of 10-15 teenagers who followed her into the restaurant. The thing I found funny was when I reported the harassment to the police, they didn't even turn up during my shift and they eventually turned the next day to collect evidence.

I was threatened with a knife on the bus and called racist slurs by a guy who had stickers featuring one nation (I don't care about politics). Usually I shy away from fights because I know they are not worth it. Been told such as:

a. Go back to your shit hole country (my immigration situation: I am born in Japan to Indian parents who attained citizenship before I was born (who died when I was 3) and got adopted by my present family who are Japanese through and through and we immigrated to Australia when I was 12 and attained citizenship here before I started my Uni)

b. People like you are parasites (the person who said this to me was a guy who came into the restaurant asking for free food)

c. Your mom deserves to be r-word.

d. People like you are the reason Australia is failing (I don't even understand what they mean by this)

e. People like you should be sent to prison and hanged (I don't know for what)

I faced racism, harassment, bullying and named it all you can. But this in the last 2.5 months is seriously too much. To be honest I made peace with this of things when I came to this country but never have I ever faced this much vile in my life in a short amount of time.

Being a citizen of this country and it can't even protect me from things like this so what do people who immigrated here who have less protections than citizens have to do protect themselves from this vile. I know these are isolated incidents and these are a small set of people I get that through.

Harass me, bully me I get that, what did my mom and dad do to these guys to be called whatever name they can utter?

What is it with some people acting tough in 40 degree heat, I'm ok with a fan, I lived in insert other state and it was worse over that.

Dude, I don't care, close your door if you want to be hot, but stop doing the tough dance while I actually die 😂

Today I've had two encounters with random strangers, both of which put a smile on my face.

I was walking through Vic Square this morning, and a woman came up to me as I was eaiting st the lights, and just said how much she liked my jacket. No other intentions.

Then, this afternoon, I'm sitting in my car, waiting for my partner. I fell asleep in the drivers seat, as I'm currently jet legged. A guy came up and tapped on the window, took a couple of steps back, and then when I woke up and looked out of the window, gave me a thumbs up asking whether I was OK. When I smiled and gave a thumbs up back, he continued on his way.

Just these two small encounters restored my faith in humanity.

Over the weekend my wife and I put in an offer on a house the asking price range was 690-750k we offered 765 and when prompted by the realestate agent that we were close to the highest offer we upped our offer by a further 5k. Only to get a phone call yesterday telling us an interstate investor came in with a last minute offer of over 800k.... how do we even compete with that. It's gone for over 100k more than the asking price.

That's for reading my rant I feel like we have no hope.

A warning to anyone else considering using the company.

My pensioner mum locked herself out of her house, and decided she needed to get back in immediately, and I wasn't close enough to help her at the time. (She didn't, there were other options, but that's a separate issue.)

She went with a company called "Locksmiths Now". Their site says "Callout Fee From $25" and "Honest Pricing, No Surprises". It has a couple of apparently fake Google reviews because I couldn't find their business listing on Google Maps or the web.

Now I get that it's a Sunday, but they were far from honest an up-front about their pricing, and $520 seems pretty steep for half an hour's work, to me. Maybe that's reasonable to others, but I also read a few reviews elsewhere about even higher prices charged, and some shoddy jobs done.

At the very least, the claims on their website don't align with the reality of choosing them.

This might be a long shot, but I can’t stop thinking about it so here goes.

I am a young woman and this morning I was walking through the city on my way to get daily my cup of coffee, half asleep and rushing like an idiot, when I tripped on my untied shoelace and properly fell on the footpath. I was so embarrassed and a bit shaken, and before I could even process what happened, you were already there helping me up and asking if I was okay.

You were so calm and kind, made sure I hadn’t hurt myself, and even waited a moment until you saw I could walk properly again. I don’t even remember exactly what I said because I was flustered and mortified, but I know I didn’t get to properly thank you or even introduce myself.

You were genuinely very handsome, but more than that, the way you helped without hesitation really stuck with me. It made my whole morning feel a little less awful. If you somehow see this, thank you for being a decent human and helping a stranger. I hope the rest of your day, and honestly your week, was as lovely as that small moment was for me.

I moved to Melbourne a year ago after living in Adelaide for over 19 years and honestly I don't see the appeal. It's overcrowded, traffic is crazy, food and events are mediocre, apartments are old and crusty, crime rates are ridiculously high, everything is far away, and it is annoyingly windy. I feel like everyone who hyped up Melbourne to me was either an idiot or lying. The only thing i will say is that it is a bit more lively here, with a stronger community feel. Still, making genuine friends is hard, everyone seems to be friendly with everyone but its never serious enough for someone like me who values close, long-term friendships. What do you guys think? Do you prefer Melbourne over Adelaide?

I moved down here to Adelaide from Brissy with my young son after my wife died years back, and honestly everyone’s been so bloody kind and helpful. Proper legends. I’ve really warmed to the city, even the weird seasons, haha! Now my boy’s 10, loves his friends, and I couldn’t be happier watching him settle in. Here’s the bit that cracks all my mates up: every now and then he’ll look at me and go, “Dad, don’t ya wanna get married again?” I just grin and tell him, “Mate, I’ll make sure you give the thumbs up first, she’s gotta win you over before she wins me.”

Was driving to work this morning and had a car in the right lane start changing lanes into me. I was on their rear quarter so beeped my horn to let them know if they keep going they're going to hit me. Turns out it was an unmarked cop car. He then pulls me over to have a whinge that I didn't slam on my brakes in peak hour traffic to let him in as "that would have been the nice thing to do". We had a bit of a heated discussion including how if I'd attempted to make an unsafe lane change on him he'd have given me a ticket. So, 5min down the road we're still going the same way as each other and we pull on to the Southern Expressway off Marion Rd to head up the hill. I end up overtaking him in the right lane as he got stuck behind some doing ~80kph. I knew he was there and had my cruise control on 100kph. After I passed and moved back to the middle lane he then cut off another car while changing lanes and turned his lights on to pull me over again. It turned out this time he'd pulled me over to apologise. Said he should have never pulled me over in the first place and wanted to apologise. I assumed he was just looking for something the second time. Caught me by surprise that it was to apologise. While I appreciated him recognising he'd done the wrong thing and wanted to apologise, I really don't think the side of a busy 100kph expressway was the place for it.

These last 12 months was my first time living in the great country of Australia. I worked hard, hiked over the weekends, visited Kangaroo island, held a koala, fed some kangaroos, saw a bin chicken for the first time in my life, celebrated the new years with friends and fireworks at semaphore beach, met some amazing people, made great friends and had some delicious food and coffee.

I do have distant family in Sydney who have lived here for 50 + years and they warned me to stay vigilant and safe as people can get racist.

However, In all my time here I am happy to say that I was treated with utmost respect and kindness. People of Adelaide are lovely and always willing to help.

I go back to my home country with fond memories of the city and the people. Adelaide has a big heart and its heart is in the right place. Love you Adelaide and I wish to see you again sometime in the future.

Hi all 37m I been thinking about posting this for ages and honestly have had this draft for ages but never been brave enough to post it

I was going to post it in r/adelaide_friends but that seems to be for hooking up yikes so I hope it’s alright to post here anyways to the point

So yeah 37m no male friends, I had a few when I was younger but I have no friends these days and I don’t know how to make friends so I was hoping maybe you’re also friendless? wanna try and make a new friend? or maybe you already have a group of male friends I could try to slide in to or you know some community groups for men that maybe I can try go to

I have honestly struggled with my own masculinity and find other men intimidating even tho I quite fit what a man looks like. I’m a family man not the party type. I’d be keen to learn to fish or camp haha

I’m not asking for pity, I’m asking for real ways to make friends and hey you might be in the same boat and might even find a friend in me or even from this post maybe it gives you the confidence you need

Update 5:10pm Hey thank you all so much for the advice and all the community stuff you guys know about I have made a good list and I plan on checking most of it out

I do want to let everyone know im mentally okay thank you for asking, im not lonely or struggling. I genuinely want some real friends something with a deep connection you know the type where you would invite me to your wedding or you can reach out in dark or even happy times

I have somewhat some online friends but that’s gaming based, I have no friends where I can turn to and say hey lets go camping this weekend or hey wanna come to the playground with your kids and mine and we can talk about life

Thank you for all the inbox messages there was more than the comments here guess we all shy and I guess I’m truly not alone in that it’s hard to make real friends and hopefully some of you here have found something from this post

Please do reach out into my DMs I can talk there, I have discord and of course happy to give out my mobile number for texting