I can't believe I lost another post! I think I will have to write things in Notepad in future so I don't lose them because it's really aggravating and time consuming. As for the original draft - after checking in the User Control Panel I am advised that no drafts found.
Black Orchid: Chattywoo it's called now! Then there's Eatywoo (Eastwood) and I can't remember what they call Epping. GorDON. Many many storefronts, illegaly, only display Chinese symbols too. No English.
When Hong Kong was handed back to the Chinese many bought homes in and around Sydney and then sent their young kids here and left them without supervision. They thought if their kids were well educated, well fed and clothed etc that they didn't need family.
There was one Chinese girl, Joyce, at my son's primary school and she lived alone for years until it was found out. She had a credit tab at the local supermarket and other organised credit but she lived in a huge house all alone. She was only found out when the next door neighbour passed away as the neighbour had been keeping an eye out for her as Joyce was in the same class as the neighbour's son.
After that many cases like this were found in and around Sydney. Several kids under 12 to a house and all living by themselves.
I've said this before and been yelled down by the moonbats with cries of BS or "racist" but it's absolutely true.
It was just recently in the news about a kid living alone in rural China whose parents had both left to work in the city. Such is life when you are nothing more than a slave working in those 24/7 factories. You would hope the kid would have grandparents or some other family member to look after him. Poor kid - he was killed by three school bullies who had made his life an absolute torment. I suppose leaving kids on the northside of Sydney would be safer but I wouldn't like to see kids left alone in south west or western Sydney! And I wonder why these kids' living conditions are not reported to child welfare?
But back to Chatswood - when my older son located to Bathurst, his house was down by the river. Every time I'd take the dog for a walk, I'd be looking across at an old church on the hill opposite. I decided to walk there one day and look at all the old graves because I was really interested in genealogy and colonial history. As I was walking around, a lady approached and asked me if I was looking for the old colonial graves, as this was the oldest church in Bathurst. She asked me if I lived locally and when I told her where I lived in Sydney, she was pleasantly surprised and told me she used to live in Chatswood. She said she and her husband were upset about all the new developments in their suburb. If they stayed, their beautiful Federation house would be hemmed in on all sides by 12 storey unit blocks (full of Chinese) and block all the light to the garden they had loved since they moved in when they married. She said they saw the writing on the wall and sold up because the suburb was fast losing its character and charm and they were feeling increasingly isolated as long time friends and neighbours sold up to the developers and left.
It's really sad that we ordinary people have to lose our lifestyles to accommodate all the clamouring hordes from China, India, the ME and Africa because that's what govts, big business, multi nationals and multi millionaires want. And it's sad that people have to relocate to rural areas to live amongst their own society.
Look, I'm not going to run down all immigrants. Our family doctor was Chinese/Australian - 7th generation!! He was the most fantastic guy, more like a friend than a doctor. My current doctor for the last 25 years is Vietnamese/Australian. I am not racist in the least. I have worked with every nationality as a nurse. Some of my best friends are from Chile, The Philippines and Singapore. The difference is assimilation. Some of these immigrants coming in - like muslims - will never even integrate let alone assimilate.