I remember the days when I could browse r/melbourne and only see a post every once in a while about the crazies in the CBD. Now when I browse I come across them everyday.

Has anyone else noticed an increase in the number of posts about crazies? Why can't we get social services to do more to help?

There's a fucking climate crisis FFS, not to mention how dangerous and intimidating these things are on the road.

Hello.

Im a single 19F kicked out of home and while i have a full time job I’m spending a lot at the supermarkets for not much and not good. Currently spending $150 per week at Coles and getting $30 in savings. This is getting me fuck all snacks, eggs, milk, not usually packaged meat, 5 frozen meals, whatever. But I’m raised by my dad, and my dad couldn’t make a meal for anything so i dont know different meals and their ingredients.

Can someone comment a list of cheap ingredients that make food easily and tasty from woolies/aldi/iga/coles?

Edit: Hey thankyou so much for all the replies on this post i got to come back to, its insanely appreciated. My house got flooded in 22 and i got split apart from my dad in living situation and am now a tenant of a relative of a relative and it has felt really hard to eat good without going to a restaurant or buying expensive ingredients i dont understand how to use. I like a lot of protein when i eat but ive never ventured further than spaghetti due to feeling like ill fail cooking. To all the people who put the effort in to reply youre gonna be really helping my frustrated pockets, hopefully some other people found your fun and cheap meals a godsend too! Ive needed to make this post for a while and im happy i did. Thanks again!

As the title says. I'm sure we could all use a good vent in these times. Lease is up, landlady is renovating the house, and I have to move on. Such is life. But... God. I've had easier times getting into homeless refuges than getting a bloody rental.

It's just depressing, having to run around and prostrate myself over and over again. I'll offer more rent, I'll offer rent up front, I'll just try to TALK to the agent and all I get is "Oh put it on the application." As if there's no god damn reason for the agent to even BE there.

Everything is on a fucking application, yeah, sure, I'll let 2Apply shove a camera up my arse to prove I can pay rent. Why not. Not like I haven't already provided payslips and bank details. Not like there's any other choice. It feels like I can't even be acknowledged as a person anymore.

It feels helpless. I have a good job, I have rental history, I have references. And time and time again it feels like I'm being told to sit on my thumb and spin.

And then I'll try for sharehouses, and have the choice between party house that smells of weed or getting denied for being too young.

Just. I'm a person. I'm a god damn person. And this entire system makes me feel like a beast.

Walking home through the CBD and there’s an unusually large amount of police standing around. Saw they’re searching pockets/bags and using a metal detector on people at Flinders station. Any idea what’s going on?