[Deluge]

Most of time us big city Aussies visit the country, it's to regional cities like Newcastle, Geelong etc. or some well-off coastal beach town. Basically, if the area doesn't vote for the Nationals, it doesn't really count. You see some of the houses these people in middle of nowhere farms and towns inhabit and wonder how such a level of poverty can exist in 21st century Australia. You don't see this anymore in the cities. Back in the early 70's it wasn't till Gough Whitlam became Prime Minister that Greater Western Sydney had a sewerage system, now the gap between city and remote country is huge and only getting worse. The country cities are heading the way of remote Australia too due to de-industrialization and brain drain. All the kids who can participate in the knowledge economy move to the big cities for university and end up as hipsters (for some reason the hipster heartland neighbourhoods are dominated by young people from regional Australia), which has a huge "dysgenic" effect on their hometowns and creates a structural poverty that will likely never be fixed.