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There is a happy medium and strata living does require a certain amount of give and take and if everybody is on board with that, then it has so many advantages that I reckon it's the only way to live in the city.
However, as in every other aspect of life, there are people who think 'give and take' means you give and they take.
There's a building in the city that was taken to the CTTT by a children's pre-school situated at its base, where staff would come in every morning to find the place littered with food scraps, beer cans, broken bottles and cigarette ends. The cigarette ends also burned holes in the their sun shades and on a couple of occasions badly damaged their equipment.
Their complaints were valid and this wasn't just one person nor even the residents of one apartment. There was a culture of unfetterred yahooism in the building and nobody was interested in doing anything about it.
Yes, let's give each other a bit of leeway but, hey, isn't it time we all grew the f… up and stopped behaving like the cast of The Young Ones (showing my age).
In the 22 years I have lived in Sydney, 21 of them have been in apartment blocks in and around Kings Cross. I reckon I've seen the best and the worst and being asked to follow a few rules related to basic human decency isn't the toughest thing that will happen to you in your life.