Catching Up: The Apartment at UoW

The apartment is definitely a humble place, but it was the most convenient option to start with. I didn't know if the town was very spread out or not, and when people say "close to" whatever, that can be open to interpretation.

While I like the fact that the apartment is directly across the street from the university, I dislike that it is so far from town. The university is surrounded by nothing but suburbs, so by sundown the only thing to do without going into town is work out at the gym or just stay at the apartment (yawn). Complicating that issue is the penalty that the state of NSW imposes on international students for public transportation -- it's full fare, which means a bus trip is $6 to town and back. I've never ridden the local bus. Although walking to town takes 45 minutes each way, I estimated I've saved about $500 to-date by not taking the over-priced public transport. Australian students only pay half fare. NSW did lose a landmark court case for discrimination over the fare issue, but rather than make things right the government chose to simply rewrite the law so the continued discrimination would be legal again. It is a bit disgruntling to see how alike governments around the world are...and politicians can't seem to understand why people despise them.