'People are very welcoming and it's very multicultural so you can try different foods and meet different people.and the beach lifestyle here is amazing.' Everyone is so busy and not as free as they are in Nepal - but I like it here. The Australian boys are adventurous, which I like - with their surfing and watersports and things like that. 'I didn't do housework at home - my parents would do it for me, so that's been hard. 'It's sometimes been tough for me without having my parents doing everything for me. 'Moving here hasn't been that easy,' she told Daily Mail Australia at the chai café where she works in Harris Park in western Sydney. These people are still having to share maybe three people to a room to get by.'įor chai café waitress Prerana Thapa, 19, the hardest part of moving from Australia has been leaving her parents behind in Nepal, and cleaning up after herself as a result. 'This is a regular job for people now and it pays well enough - but not for rent. They support them very well and they can live a decent reliable life thanks to them. 'Now though companies like UberEats and Menulog are very good for new arrivals. 'The bosses were exploiting people and paying under the minimum wage because new migrants didn't know any better. 'We had to search a lot and they were paying a lot less money,' said Mr Malhotra. The pair said when they first arrived before the Covid pandemic, they struggled to find work. 'In India we have multicultural people: all caste, creeds everywhere.' It didn't make me feel good because in our country we don't do that racism thing. 'We were in a bar once and the white people there were discriminating against the Aboriginal people there, telling them it was not their country. 'The only racism I've ever seen is towards Aboriginal people,' said Mr Malhotra. 'The number of homeless people is rising in the country as a result.'īut they had nothing but praise for Australia and said they'd never personally suffered any racism since arriving in the country four years ago. 'Even the properties that are available are so expensive - people are paying $900 a week for two rooms because there's nothing else available. 'We need people coming in to Australia because there are jobs to fill - but we can't afford the people. 'They were normal people - not down-and-outs - who were living in tents because they couldn't find anywhere to rent,' said Mr Malhotra. 'I want to become a dentist here, but it's really hard and really expensive and so is getting permanent residency.'Ĭousins Gagan Malhotra, 23, and Amid Bhadia, 27, are international students working as concierges at an apartment block in Pyrmont near the CBD which is packed every weekend with people hoping to rent one of the units.Īnd they discovered a darker side to the housing crisis on Tuesday when they saw council staff clear away desperate homeless people from a small parkland area opposite their work.Ĭhai café waitress Prerana Thapa, 19, (pictured) hailed Australia's multicultural society which she said had been very welcoming, despite struggling to find a home after arriving 'It's really safe here compared to my country. 'My English is not good and sometimes people are just rude.'īut despite the drawbacks, there's still nowhere else in the world she'd rather be after living in Australia for the past four years. 'When people hear my accent and see my skin, or even when they hear my name, it happens' she said. She combines that with a job as a disability carer to make ends meet while living in Sydney, recently named the second most expensive city in the world for property.īut she said her South American accent has proved a magnet for racists, which she encounters almost every day.
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