Class in Australia

At work today a woman came in and had the most annoying faux-upper class Australian accent I have ever heard. She proceeded to inform me just how hard life as for these days for her, what with only two cars, a holiday home in the Snowy Mountains and twice yearly trip to either Venice or Geneva. She apparently was visiting Brisbane after an absense of some years and needed a map of the city.

I found one for her and in the course of the conversation she revealed that she lives in Sydney. I told her that I come from Sydney too. "Oh", she said, "where abouts?"

"From Liverpool", I replied. The look on her face, what a change. It was as if I had just said that I had the plague. I didn't offer to sell her any drugs or attempt to steal her hubcaps.

Does a class system really exist in this country?? Ah, who cares.