A 31-year resident of the Australian town of Altona Meadows has had enough:
Altona Meadows is being ruined by selfish residents with no respect for their neighbours, says Trevor, an emergency services worker who has lived in Shirley St for 31 years.
“Ten years ago this was the most beautiful street in Altona Meadows,” he says.
“Now it’s like Beirut.”
This is what his street currently looks like:
Let me tell you something Trevor, Beirut doesn’t have space for green. Let me rephrase that in a better way, we have no green. So your little insignificant street can never look like Beirut. As for the comment itself, its quite immature, stupid and pathetic like your complaint.
so there’s a wave of rebranding our beautiful party city.. into smthg ugly..? definitely
I love Beirut but honestly, no matter how many vodka red bulls you chug down, you cannot escape the fact that it’s nothing but concrete and asphalt. There are no green spaces and no one seems to care about it.
Basically, I used the post to hit two birds with one stone: 1. the cliche “looks like Beirut” and 2. brown Beirut.
The question is: did you send this whino a certificate? 🙂
Unfortunately, no. Didn’t have much to go with except for his first name. A shame though.
more likely a racist, who doesn’t like the fact he has a neighbour who is lebanese!!
Possibly, though I doubt he would be able to locate Beirut on a map.