Melbourne One Day, Queensland the Next
If life in Dan’s helltown is making you crazy, the only sane thing to do is leave.
If life in Dan’s helltown is making you crazy, the only sane thing to do is leave:
Justine Campbell could see the mental health impacts of lockdowns on her three children after 5½ months of homeschooling.
So when stage-four restrictions were announced across Melbourne, the psychologist decided to cut ties with the Victorian capital for good and shift to Brisbane …
With her husband still stuck overseas, the family listed their home in Toorak and flew to Brisbane to escape.
I’d imagined my Melbourne friends might slowly drift into depression, but a few of them instead exhibit noticeable mood swings, shifting from dull resignation to occasional inexplicable euphoria.
When I mentioned this to someone with a background in confinement psychology, she said similar behaviour was often seen in first-year prisoners.
Research by property data firm Propertyology suggests there could be a net 30,000 decrease in the number of people entering Victoria as a result of the pandemic lockdown …
Meanwhile, successful escapees tend to be cashed-up and creative:
One savvy business type says he was about to jump onto the back of a freight truck to get to Byron Bay.
“I’ve paid top dollar to get squished in between the cargo,” he moaned. “It’s a long way from sitting in 1A”.
People smuggling and border breaching is the travel de jour as the rich and sometimes famous find themselves grounded ...
A Melbourne trucking executive was so determined to get to the Sunshine State he got a trucker’s licence to sit in the passenger seat.
No matter how much distance they put between themselves and Dan, however, Victoria will still make them – and us – pay:
Henry Ergas: 'The sums involved are breathtaking: in the course of this fiscal year...Victorians will receive almost $11,000 per capita from the commonwealth, vastly exceeding the payments to the other states.'https://t.co/atBRS29vyH
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) September 11, 2020