What's a city significant and well known in your country, but will raise an eyebrow to anyone outside of it? Discussion

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u/Affectionate_Log6816 Aug 31 '24 edited Sep 01 '24

It is a dull, boring, expensive, bureaucratic shithole.

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u/Aetra Aug 31 '24

I have a friend from Canberra who came to visit me in Brisbane for a week and he was shocked anything was open after 8pm

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u/Affectionate_Log6816 Sep 01 '24

Canberra is designed to funnel public servants straight from their jobs to the front of their tv’s at 5:30pm - especially during Winter.

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u/sinkshitting Sep 02 '24

Brisbane? The place known for shutting up early. It blows my mind how early places close in Brisbane.

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u/Outside-Composer-345 Sep 01 '24

I live in Sydney and I love my visits to Canberra. It’s not boring

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u/Green_hammock Sep 02 '24

Haters gonna hate. I grew up in and around the Canberra region, and have since moved (ironically to Newcastle). I miss Canberra all the time, particularly how safe I felt no matter where I lived, when the so called dodgier suburbs.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '24

It’s also one of the few places in Australia with a non-blast-furnace climate. I’m not a fan of the heat so Canberra or Tasmania would be my choices in Australia.

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u/Affectionate_Log6816 Sep 03 '24

Lol, we get our fair share of 35-40C days