Wy do people rarely say "g'day" in Melbourne?

Question

I've lived here almost all my life and the greeting is usually "hi" (or the variant, "hey"), not "g'day"

Answer 1

I still say G'day Mate, and I hear it a lot from Fair Dinkum Aussies, but probably not as much as I used to.

It may be that too many kids are using trash Yank talk they hear on TV, it's ruining our culture!

Answer 2

Cause they are Victorians and therefore different to the rest of you Australians out there....Aussie, Aussie, Aussie.....nevermind.  lol

Answer 3

I actually say ... HOW YA GOING? more than anything

I don't think it's a bogan thing to say .. .

AS THING wrote .. it is a country thing though .. more so than a city thing.

Answer 4

i say gday

Answer 5

I live in Melbourne and i think it is the Queenslanders who say G'Day more than any state...

We tend to say Hi mate or How ya going,or Hi-ya and Hello...

I know i say G'day mate a h**l of a lot...Maybe i'm just a die hard Queenslander ey...lol

Answer 6

Because we aren't bogans in Melbourne.

Answer 7

We do, Your just on the wrong side of Melbourne.

Answer 8

Seems bogan to me

Answer 9

Hmmm, actually I see "G'day" written more often than I hear it said, although people do say it here in Sydney, and I know Melbourne people who say it also.

Country Aussies say it a lot, from my experience, but not so much people from other backgrounds than anglo. I think older people say it more than younger people, too, that may have some effect.

And Australians abroad tend to speak slang more and more broadly, for some reason (maybe bonding, lol).

Anyway, if you are mixing with a younger crowd who is more city and probably less anglo, you might be hearing it less.

So count the ones you hear in these answers, lol!

Cheers :-)

Answer 10

Because we don't say it that much in other places in Australia either.

It's not just Melbourne.

"G'day" is not normally said to people whom we don't know well or we we meet in a formal way.

Cheers

Answer 11

i  think its a little bit more s****. there,im from nsw and there is alot of slang there,as well as qld

Answer 12

Depends where you from in melbourne. sometimes, but usually older people and sometimes not in all seriousness.

I actually. have never heard somebody greet another fae to face with "hey" unless they are yelling from a distance.

its weird. x

Hows it going and stuff, definately

Answer 13

You obviously move in more exalted circles than I do. Whenever I come to Melbourne, I hear it all the time.

Answer 14

Outdated slang imo

I usually say/hear "How you going mate?"

Answer 15

Melbourne has become increasingly globalised over the past decade and become multicultural, leading to a decline in the traditional Australian culture that is more prominent in rural areas.

Answer 16

The only time I hear Gday is on Home & Away or Neighbors or Aussie Movies.

I never day it...I say Hi.