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The brutal reality of moving to a small town exposed by Aussies - as thousands flee Sydney and Melbourne due to housing crisis
A single woman has opened up about the hidden dark side of fleeing a big city to live in a small town, claiming tight-knit 'toxic' locals drove her out. Kylie Heffernan, 37, moved from Sydney to a small regional community in the Hunter Valley, on NSW 's mid north coast, after the Covid breakout. She'd planned to pivot her career in hospitality and dive into her passion for horse riding. When she first moved, Ms Heffernan said the locals were 'lovely' and wanted to meet her but things became so bad, she ended up moving after just a couple of years. Ms Heffernan, who is single with no children, said she quickly felt isolated by the locals in the town who mocked her equestrian aspirations. 'I feel like things started to really shift, in terms of people's attitude towards me when I started to get a little bit more settled and a bit more comfortable and probably being a little bit more myself,' she said on TikTok. 'I'm just wanting to compete... (in equestrian events) people who I thought were my friends would be really negative about it. '[They would] tell me I'm stupid for doing it, make out that I was no good at it, and just make me feel really s***ty.' She added that as a hospitality worker, she noticed alcohol had a firm grip on the town. 'If you kind of don't participate in drinking at the local venue most days of the week you kind of just get left out,' she said. She said two scary experiences left her feeling shaken in her new home. A friendship breakdown with the owner where her thoroughbred horse was kept meant she had to relocate the animal out of fears for his safety. Then, during a night out in town, she was 'bullied' by another patron, who threw ice in her face and tried to push her over. 'I had to leave the venue and I've never been back. I did address it with the licensee and they spoke to him, but the general consensus from the community was that [for] this person it was really out of character, and I just misconstrued,' she said. 'I felt that that was the general feeling that I had done something wrong to provoke this behaviour out of him.' Ms Heffernan eventually left the town about six months ago, adding it was the 'best thing' she has done. 'It also made me realise that I don't think anyone in the town actually hates me,' she said. 'There might be a couple of people that do, but I think the issue is just the culture within the community, I'm 37-years-old, I'm not married, I don't have kids. 'I know that that is confronting to a lot of people's life choices and I have no issue with people who have kids and who have made that life pathway for themselves.' Ms Heffernan said people should realise they're not alone in feeling isolated and they might be in the wrong place, adding friends were the most important support group. She said a lot of people might be going through what she had, and that mental health support in rural communities needs to be bolstered. Her video was flooded with comments from many Aussies who'd experienced similar feelings of exclusion and isolation after leaving the big city for a rural town. 'Yep, small communities live in a small world, judgemental, self-obsessed, lacking real world experiences,' one said. 'People are rude, racist and it's hard to make friends,' said another. 'The level of ignorance and bigotry is unlike anything I've ever seen. On the surface it seems like a safe, friendly place to live but the social culture is borderline disgusting,' one wrote. 'I moved to a small very tight-knit country town 13 years ago and had a very similar experience to start off. The level of toxicity and cliquiness was eye opening to say the least. I have a beautiful group of friends now. But I still don't feel like I belong here,' one commented. 'I have experienced more bullying in a rural workplace than when I lived in the city. Small town, narrow minded people who have never lived or worked anywhere else. Very cliquey,' one shared. Others said they'd been welcomed into small towns with open arms. It comes as thousands of young Australians are leaving major city centres to cheaper regions of the country. NSW lost 28,000 residents last year, and 3,200 fled Victoria, according to the Regional Australia Institute. Meanwhile, cheaper areas in southeast Queensland gained 26,000 residents. Calga and Kulnura, near Gosford in NSW; Point Clare, on Gosford's southern fringe; and Hervey Bay in Queensland all experienced a ratio of at least eight arrivals per departure. James Morrow, CEO of Muval, said the most popular areas were metro-adjacent with lifestyle appeal. 'When we're scheduling moves, the trend is clear, people are prioritising lifestyle, and they're willing to cross state lines for it,' he said. 'We've also noticed fewer outbound requests in these hotspots, meaning once people settle in, they're more likely to stay put. That kind of stickiness is a strong indicator of local satisfaction.' When it came to making the move to a regional area, millennials born from 1981 to 1996 were the most enthusiastic about change. More than half - 57 per cent - of millennials are considering such a move, a YouGov poll of 1,028 people for the Regional Australia Institute found. In a break with recent decades, those in their thirties and forties raising children are now actively considering a regional area, where they could afford a house with a backyard and be close to nature. 'The housing's more affordable, cheaper cost of living and you don't have the commute,' Liz Ritchie, CEO of the Regional Australia Institute said. 'Because of the hip pocket, high inflation, high interest rates - the issues we've been reading about daily for the last two years, this is driving these decisions.'
Daily Mail
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Dramatic footage shows a shoplifter being chased by police and threatening to jump from the side of a pier
Dramatic body camera footage has been released showing a prolific shoplifter threatening to jump off railings near a pier. Michael Thompson was spotted a day after his last offence in Chatham High Street and tried to flee. The video above shows the pursuit towards Sun Pier before his arrest. The 37-year-old had repeatedly stole food and alcohol worth more than £400 in May and July.
Daily Mail
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- Daily Mail
In a fresh, blistering, 47-word scathing rant, Wayne Carey LOSES IT over THAT 'toilet' video filmed by anonymous women at a Melbourne wine bar... but his past immediately comes back to haunt him
Wayne Carey has doubled down on his furious criticism of the women who filmed him and an unnamed woman in a trendy Melbourne wine bar - but his withering statement on X saw him get slammed by footy fans who brought up his scandalous past. On Wednesday, Carey confessed he is the man shown in a viral video that allegedly featured a man and woman emerging from a bathroom after a sexual encounter in a trendy Melbourne bar. The North Melbourne premiership winner said he has contacted Victoria Police in an effort to have the people who filmed and distributed the video held accountable for their actions. The footage, which was taken at the Toorak Cellars bar in Armadale in the city's inner south east, shows Carey and the unnamed woman walking into view around 20 seconds apart. A female voice is heard saying 'we've got you on camera' as the woman walks past, before asking 'What's he doing in there?' and remarking, 'She looks embarrassed.' Carey and the woman depicted in the clip have lashed out over the video, with the ex-AFL star using his podcast to brand it 's**t shaming' and cyberbullying, with both parties insisting there was no 'tryst' in the toilets. Pictured: Carey's second statement on the scandal, which saw him get some harsh reminders about his own past when he posted it to X on Thursday On Thursday morning, the 54-year-old launched another broadside at the women behind the clip, blaming them for ruining lives. 'Being filmed without consent coming out of a public bathroom and then filming a complete stranger within a minute coming out of that public bathroom is NOT OK.. Then the persons who are filming adding their disgusting narrative and posting it on social media ruins lives …Enough,' he wrote on X. But if the Kangaroos legend was looking for support or sympathy, he was in for a shock. While some commenters agreed with him, the vast majority brought up his scandalous past to remind him that it his behaviour has also been 'NOT OK'. Many brought up his infamous cheating scandal with Kelli Stevens, the wife of his North Melbourne teammate Anthony Stevens, which became footy's biggest scandal when the news broke in March 2002. Others raised his alleged glassing of ex-fiancée Kate Neilson. In 2007, the premiership winner was accused of smashing a glass into her face as the pair were having dinner at a restaurant while holidaying in Miami. He was arrested and charged by police and later pleaded guilty to two counts of battery of a law enforcement officer and one count of resisting arrest with violence. Some commenters raised the September 2022 incident that saw him kicked out of Perth's Crown Casino when a bag containing a white powder fell out of his pocket while he was gambling. Carey said the bag contained crushed-up anti-inflammatory drugs. And his guilty plea to a charge of indecent assault after grabbing a woman's breast outside a Melbourne nightclub in 1996 was also raised by footy fans who used it to shoot down his complaint about not consenting to the filming of the video. Carey did not hold back in his first barrage over the video when he confessed to being the man in the vision on Wednesday. 'Annoyed is the wrong word, I've gone through about 10 different emotions in the last three days,' he said on Sam Newman's You Cannot Be Serious podcast. 'I've gone through disbelief, sadness, I've gone through anger. 'This woman has been thrown into this just because I could kick a footy. 'And you've got two vile, disturbing, probably p**sed women who want to do this to another woman. 'That's all they were doing, they were s**t-shaming another woman. 'If two men had done that they would be raked over hot coals, it would be the biggest story going around. 'But because it's two women doing it to another woman … you don't know what's going on, this other woman has had all sorts of stuff going in her life, I've since found out. 'You talk about vile and disgusting, what they've done and who they have affected by a few sh**s and giggles drinking their chardonnay, sitting up there, doing whatever. 'Once again, I'm not going to name them because that would be as pathetic as what they are. I'll let the law take care of it.' The AFL great (pictured with Jessica Paulke) revealed he has contacted police about the footage and is now going to 'let the law take care of it' Carey also said his partner Jessica Paulke had spoken to the woman in the footage to support her in her efforts to have the people who filmed the video held accountable. Paulke also messaged an Instagram account where the uncensored video was published, warning that she and Carey had 'contacted esafety commission to have this content removed'. The woman shown in the footage also lashed out on social media. 'Shame on you women, we are better than that,' she wrote. 'It [a tryst] did not happen, but that's not the point. 'It's time that narrative changed.' Carey added that one of the women's claim that she heard people 'grunting like pigs' in the toilet just before the video was taken is 'completely made-up crap'. He revealed that they were warned not to post the video on social media. 'This other woman has had an horrific few months. 'She's lost her parents, she's split up from a partner and these two women think it's OK to film her and slut shame her online and post it online,' he said. 'What sort of penalty should these two women get? 'We [he and the woman in the video] are speaking and we will follow this through to the nth degree. 'I'm blown away that women in their 40s could think this was a good idea. 'How would they explain this to their children?'
