City VS Country in Australia

[@funsimulator7246]

My wife and I went to the circus for our first date 13 years ago in a small country town. The crowd was full of people wearing white sunnies and Rip Curl Tshirts and then the stage caught on fire and it wasn't even part of the act. A half dressed clown came running out from backstage with a fire extinguisher to put it out.

[@TheDukeofMadness]

Your story made me laugh enough to scare my dog.

[@Yoshi278]

That sounds like the best circus show I've ever heard of.

[@Michealfarmer]

Great story! Thanks for sharing! I went to the Moscow Circus in Toowoomba in the early 90’s. One of the trapeze artists fell off the trapeze platform before he could even trapeze. People simply laughed and clapped. Country at its best.

[@mongolike513]

I thought it was a dream !

[@chai_burns]

Dude the circus came to our country town during the floods and a clown slipped in mud, so they left and came back a few weeks later... to more rain.

[@Jakobos]

Teenagers being goths is exactly what I noticed about visiting Toowoomba, it was like stepping back into the 2000s... And good on 'em, keeping the tradition alive!

[@TwoShedz]

seems to be an abundance of vampires too!

[@potapotapotapotapotapota]

Toowoomba is such a funny place. It's like a capitalist version of Rivendell filled with people from the Shire.

[@timh6845]

I remember the teenage goths in the mall in Shepparton in summer. Trench coats and makeup in 44 degree heat is a commitment to a way of life I could only dream of having.

[@showyceramics]

I miss the 90’s

[@salamander8301]

I'm from Toowoomba but live in Melbourne, when I went back to TBAR I couldn't get over how much people dress up to walk down the one main drag it's hilarious.

[@strongbad4216]

I am from Bathurst, and the thing about funerals for local people is absolutely true. When the town bum died it was front page news. R.I.P. Chook.

[@mikespike2099]

In the village everyone is important

[@5thgearouttahere]

Best Chinese take-away in 2795?

[@Toomanymemes697]

Chook 😂

[@Lurtz_s]

Always enjoyed my time in Bathurst. Shame they can't drive though.

[@antiwokejohn9501]

He will be screaming HEY in heaven

[@TheLifeErratic]

As a goth living in what was a country town, calling us extinct is ironically the most goth thing I can think of. Well played.

[@modernshoggoth]

As a a hyperintroverted country boy with a thing for goths: long may you all continue. *salutes*

[@wobblysauce]

And from not wanting to stand out, they really don’t

[@Enraged-vu2vb]

My chemical romance or bullet for my valantine

[@lukedudgeon8699]

@@Enraged-vu2vb bullet, all day, every day.

[@TheLifeErratic]

@@Enraged-vu2vb Sisters of Mercy ofc

[@KD_cycling]

This is a pretty East coast take on the country where the towns are big enough to have something going for them. Here in SA our country towns have a real serial murderer vibe to them. Due mostly to the serial murders. That and the complete lack of vegetation. But you're right, that Chinese restaurant in Golburn is truly awful

[@lukeh6367]

Yeah there's a lot creepy rural towns up here. Would be a good place to film a horror movie.

[@paul1548]

Yep, I have the same impression from the stories I've heard from people who come to the city from bumfuck nowhere.

[@hustlersmelody9641]

A lot of closet satanists ravage Australia. The matriarch of the Pettingil crime family used to ‘pray to Satan’ before having her children, because she thought it wasn’t possible. Many years later, after dozens if not hundreds of deaths caused by her and her family, she was handed a 18 month sentence. The same pentagram she worshipped is the same pentagram dictating the police force and the courts.

[@JamLlama9000]

East coast or at least a 2hr drive from the coast. Towns get progressively more murdery the further inland you get. We went through Cooladdi (QLD) on a road trip and the nice lady at Foxtrap (the town store / petrol station) said "You can camp anywhere you like out here, no one's going to hunt you". Not kill you. Hunt you. Needless to say we didn't spend the night at Foxtrap :S

[@andrewkennedy5946]

I've been told that there is an Indian in Dubbo(?) the top tier.

[@LIMC]

Grew up in a country town, can confirm it is like this

[@hyperfeen]

oh wow hi fancy seeing you here

[@loomhigh]

you are a fellow rural? Based. I take a LIMC biscuit over a Limp biscuit any day!

[@ivanwalker6842]

N.I.C.E

[@sittingstill3578]

Didn’t realize you were an Aussie. Rural Aussies educating world cause somebody’s got to do it.

[@friendlyoldbum9182]

Country "city" or country town ?

[@corriegillett2536]

I agree, as someone what was able to escape the city for greener pastures…..literally, that battery that fell out of the remote comment it hard. My only big take away from real country areas is getting the caution flash of the high beams any time there is a cop/camera car and the obligatory wave in thanks, that’s the kind of shit that makes a country great.

[@Tester-sh1mn]

In the city they don’t have cameras because of all the congestion, having second thoughts yet?

[@corriegillett2536]

They just have mobile phone, bus lane, red light and parking cameras. Zero second thoughts for me, though for those of you thinking of moving to the country, don’t, it’s terrible and you would hate it, we will look after it so you dont have to😉

[@lawdpleasehelpmeno]

I grew up in the country and I tried to do the caution flash in the city to warn people and someone ended up psychotically tailgating me because they thought I was flashing at them.

[@feelincrispy7053]

Well I live in the suburbs and everyone does the headlight flash. But if you don’t do the little wave back you’re a piece of shit and may get tailgated until you’ve learnt your lesson on giving the 2 finger salute

[@mikespike2099]

If ya live in the city you realize you are more of an inconvenience when you die than anything else!

[@khangasOozaki]

I would just like to note: all the "country" towns Jordie listed in this video are among the largest of all towns that can still be considered 'country' Tamworth, y'know, the home of country music, has for several years been in a state of "is it large enough to be called a city yet?"

[@fullsendit292]

Yeah and rockhampton is not small either

[@HantaleMedia]

Yeah, it's probably worth distinguishing "Country Towns" with "Work Towns". There's a big difference in atmosphere.

[@loomhigh]

weirdest think about city people is how they define "country". seems that anything that isn't Sydney CBD, including outer suburbs of Sydney, count as country. I grew up in a remote Australian town, my definition of "city" is if it has a shopping center.

[@ThePrimeMinisterOfTheBlock]

No. The answer is no.

[@khangasOozaki]

@@ThePrimeMinisterOfTheBlock what do you consider the threshold is? area wise or population wise?

[@Jacko4859]

You forgot to mention the copious amount of Ice that exists in these rural towns. But other then that, you did fantastic

[@daniellenierop1738]

That poison my friend is sadly not exclusive to the country.

[@mikespike2099]

It’s snows often in towns along the trucking routes! ❄️

[@fullsendit292]

Dealers make more money selling it in towns ik surprised people pay that much for that junk

[@TheJacobAnwyl]

i miss the good old days when those kids would have been at the creek pushing trolleys and throwing old bikes in there.

[@goddepersonno3782]

@@fullsendit292 kids are more bored with nothing to do, so they're more likely to take meth

[@rkmckenna]

I'm from the country and that wheat silo story actually happened. It was tragic, but the girl involved saved her brother's life and sacrificed her own.

[@sprintershepherd4359]

its happened thousands of time throughout the world

[@li04am]

happens everywhere

[@kremepye3613]

Do you tell it at parties?

[@romandybala]

Happened in Thompson's Flour Mills in Newport in 1962 . Two boys from my school.

[@rkmckenna]

@@kremepye3613 no never!

[@sheevpalpatine9532]

I was recently coming back home and stopped in some small town in WA. They had a Maccas, so couldn't have been all that small. I go in to order my big mac, and I shit you not a fucking Goth and a teen dressed as a plague doctor walk right in the door. Mask, cane and all. It was truly a fascinating experience.

[@OnceWasRStrathfield]

😄 I have no words

[@KruelAidMan]

A town has to be outright tiny for it not to have a McDonald's, even a one-street nothing like Glen Innes has one

[@SkiddlyBink]

@@KruelAidMan glen innes has a racetrack so not tiny enough! although i guess there is probably bugger all else to do but train horses in all that space

[@sometimesnevernot]

@@KruelAidMan collie has ten thousand people so it's got a maccas but most down south towns got over an hour to the nearest maccas. We got pizza you can get at the bp. Or restaurants or the pub but no take away there.

[@danielmiller5348]

The weird thing is (east coast perspective) these towns are always the hottest stinking places, and there is Goths everywhere lol. How? Hahaha

[@blindoutlaw]

I was looking to transfer to a country town for work. Lightning ridge advertised itself by saying “we have a great local pub, with three different beers on tap” How good is that? No need for 6,000 different craft beers. You’ve got New, VB and the run off at the end of the night that they use to make dark beer.

[@TheSilmarillian]

Am from the ridge and yes we do ;)I fled the cities 8 yrs ago and now that people can work from home they are selling up country property prices have doubled and still rising

[@mettatonneoex]

Where can I find a country town in Australia that's exceedingly has too much Greek heritage?

[@fullsendit292]

@@TheSilmarillian i thought lighting ridge didn't have a town center and isnt it like the middle of the desert?

[@victoriawalker4668]

Lightning ridge is so unique. Feels a bit like an Indiana Jones kinda place

[@victoriawalker4668]

@@fullsendit292 it's in the middle of the desert, sort of, but also has a town centre

[@kirsten2030]

I live in Toowoomba and honestly the fact that I can drive in the centre of town and see random chickens makes me incredibly happy

[@taviag4302]

I'm in Highfields, some of my neighbours get incredibly salty when my chickens occasionally escape. She usually just scratches around my fence but that is apparently offensive to some people 🙄

[@peepeetrain8755]

Toowoomba is definielty not a country town xD, got a population of over a 100k for chriss sake

[@dantemadden1533]

@@peepeetrain8755 country city

[@kirsten2030]

@@taviag4302 I’ve got a friend who lives out that way too and her chooks do the same thing hahaha hopefully they get over it soon

[@MrsLana92]

As someone who literally just bought a house in the country, the real estate agent we went through did, in fact, wear a puffy sleeveless jacket.

[@vicmaz8251]

Dalby?

[@MrsLana92]

@@vicmaz8251 No, and I wouldn't dox myself if it was.

[@ariadneschild8460]

My real estate agency all dress like farmers even tho the youngish guy that owns it worked in banking before becoming a estate agent 😅🤣

[@peepeetrain8755]

everyone wears that jacket, no matter their profession over here

[@RobertJW]

As someone who's been looking at property in what was 10 years ago definitely a country town, the fact that the real estate agents no longer wear the puffy sleeveless jackets fills me with dread. Could've been at the Melbourne Cup thirty seconds before I met them! It's the sign! I'm buying in a CITY!

[@luket3953]

In the country you can still pick up the latest so fresh summer hits at your local sanity

[@esmeraldagreengate4354]

My awesome country town has 5 pubs, an RSL, a bowling club, a golf club, 7 bottle shops but only two supermarkets, Coles and IGA and no doctors.

[@Kami_N7]

Oh too relatable

[@FartOnMePlz]

How bout servos, my town has way too many because of truckies and 4x4 goers and with a double lane highway going to the city where people come in and out every day.

[@TheSilmarillian]

Same here one medical center and a parade of foreign doctors

[@FartOnMePlz]

@@TheSilmarillian my town also has a medical centre and it's got doctors from different countries and some Aussies doctors.

[@goranmiljus2664]

I walked into a country IGA.The left wall was all junk food, the right wall was all grog. The fresh fruit and vegetables were ALL on a small picnic table ( a 1970's card table). The freezer only had frozen pizzas and ice cream.

[@shockcomadeath3525]

Moved to regional VIC (Wangaratta) from Melb 10 years ago, one of the best things I've ever done. Bought a beautiful house on half an acre in town for the cost of a city bedsit. Kids walk or ride to school and are heavily involved in the town's sporting activities. Wife is SO happy! I used to be rural ignorant, thinking everything and everyone would be backward, with only footy and netball to attend. How wrong I was, there is everything here that a family could need and way more, without the congestion, competition, insane house prices and impersonality/anonymity of the big smoke. Truly down to earth people who are genuine and not pretentious. Sure, not the most happening place for someone in their early 20s but a wonderful place to raise a family and retire. I love visiting Melbourne occasionally, but am just as happy seeing it in my rear view mirror on my way home!

[@davidbrayshaw3529]

Yep.

[@DoctorXander]

Lol so weird to see my hometown talked about on KZbin. Definitely wish I'd moved away for uni but can see the appeal for families

[@jackmiller1561]

How could you do an Australian culture video and not do the Andy Griffiths books...

[@TotoDG]

I see you're the substitute for Mr. Mitchell today.

[@Pastryarchy]

Because he and most of his audience are in their 30’s…

[@TotoDG]

@@Pastryarchy. You mean as in... *The primary demographic of those books when they came out?*

[@Pastryarchy]

@@TotoDG you mean Paul Jennings? Andy Griffiths didn’t become big until way later

[@Tester-sh1mn]

@@Pastryarchy This for sure, Round the twist was based on his books and that show started back in mid 1990 (Ps, I’m related to the Series 2 Bronson)

[@liseeeeeeey]

Actually, we got one of those weird little shopping centres in Melbourne. Northcote Plaza doesn't even have a Kmart anymore but it does have TWO Coles.

[@SuperSGFreak49]

First time I ever walked in there I thought "wow, this is shit", and it reminded me of home

[@sometimesnevernot]

Damn. Our nearest Coles is half an hour away! Two hey?

[@vicmaz8251]

Yeah but you've got a cinema in Northcote.thats cheating.

[@bigdude101ohyeah]

Then you have Canberra, where you essentially have the worst of both worlds. Insufferable city people, and Southern Cross Ten. We actually had a Sanity REOPEN

[@deanpd3402]

I was in Canberra for the protests earlier this year. The best road was the one that took me out.

[@pfftnuffinpersonalkid1541]

Tuggeranong is full country town, Cub McMansions, Shitty shopping center filled with stores that should have gone out of business 30 years ago (including a San!ty), everyone driving around Hiluxes and Patrols with 30 antennas and anti-Environmental/Parks Department/Ranger stickers because they got caught trying to pig dog in Namadgi. Bikie Gang turf wars over meth which means every other month there is a drive by shooting of some McMansion.

[@fraud1]

In the 50s/60s, if you realized that your capabilities or personality were keeping you from the career you wanted in Sydney or Melbourne, and you were looking for a smaller pond to make you feel like a bigger fish, Canberra was the place to be. And then those people decided to breed.

[@MachineThatCreates]

Grew up in the city moved to the country. Can not remember the last time I sat in traffic. The air is fresher and the people just a little more real.

[@OperationRussian]

tegridy

[@MachineThatCreates]

@@OperationRussian yes of course...there's tegridy.

[@victoriawalker4668]

@@OperationRussian 😂

[@peepeetrain8755]

i live in the country and every time it rains, the creek floods and only one road can be driven through. School rush traffic was insane, sat in me car for a whole FIVE to TEN minutes. fucken outrageous.

[@thelandlord111]

Years ago went to visit a mate in rural town I grew up in. Got called a “city fag” by an old guy at the pub for washing my hands after taking a piss.

[@JAYJAYTOKYO]

uncle used to go to the country circus early morning to get free elephant manure for his garden.. his annual big mission that he would talk about all year when we ate salad

[@deanpd3402]

As a gardener, he sounds like an interesting man.

[@funsimulator7246]

Haha that's hilarious

[@666t]

They keep stray cats away, a girlfriend got me a good one for my birthday

[@variniasowden349]

Ive done the same , elephant shit is the best

[@Cry_theonly]

It's called Greg's fish and chips! Although it is great, also one difference you missed is on the 4x4 alloted space of 'park' in the city they put some stupid abstract twisted piece of metal where in the country we just pick a random object and build a big version of it.

[@RealityBoat]

Living in an Australian city you realise how lacking our pop culture is. The pinnacle of Australian entertainment is the morning show on channel 7 and the block.

[@davidbrayshaw3529]

Look at the ratings. The fact is that 95% of Australians aren't watching that 5h!t. If your housemate is, kick them out.

[@SP3RKK]

Don't forget farmer wants a wife

[@czarkusa2018]

the ABC's Countdown used to rule the musical world, they who must not be named shut it down.

[@pfftnuffinpersonalkid1541]

How in living F*** there is no Aus version of Letterkenny based on Jordies "Stories from Country Towns" is baffling to me.

[@JohnJFebreeze]

As an american um no yalls cities music scenes seem way more robust than any of ours

[@LokiBeckonswow]

tbh once you leave australia the whole country seems a bit like a country town... every time I come from europe back home, I'm amazed by how nice people are, and how the ideas getting around are lagging about 5 years behind everyone else... makes sense when you remember we're basically in the bottom corner of southeast asia, seems that it just takes time for news to reach people in oz 🤷

[@jack-he7fv]

Now try nz if you think aus is behind the times

[@Lilybun]

I used to live in a euro country with terrible weather and 0 skyscrapers before coming here. Australia may be 5 years behind central europe but at least no one here still lives like they're waiting for the iron curtain to fall. Except maybe Tasmania, Launceston was like a twilight zone wormhole to the old country.

[@louiseashelford5627]

@@Lilybun the original launceston in england is like that too. maybe it's just a launceston thing

[@taviag4302]

If you're planning on leaving the city like I did go rural not regional suburban. I have just spent all day moving my chicken house from my front yard (which is half an acre) to the back where it's now closer to both my neighbours houses. Why? Because a neighbour dobbed is in to Toowoomba regional council for having a chook house in the front not the back. That is a specific council rule. Also it's full of old retired ppl who judge you for spending all day everyday not manicuring your lawn while you are indulging in a full time career. I could go on but it's going to turn into a reaction video at this point and I've still got to comfort my pet chooks about their forced relocation.

[@Summathescorcher]

Lol it's so true though. Everybody in my street is old and obsessed with their lawns to an unhealthy degree. My front lawn just looks like a field.

[@BRETTYZCAR]

I love the irony of The Block turning a vacant paddock into a yuppie commune and calling it the country.

[@theadventuresofzoomandbettie]

I loved all the interstate people Oohing and aaahing about it being far off in the country. It feels like it's only 30min from melbourne cbd!

[@craigdavid6519]

I've worked in many country towns as a temp chef. Most...Country people hate city people FACT. They don't want newbies around. Just the vibe I have felt and heard while working in kitchens in country pubs

[@dingobonza]

I'm from a town of 300 people and am 8th generation local, can confirm I do get ragey when someone else moves in.... especially when they fuck with stuff like lop trees. Makes me furious. Drove the price up from $400k/property to 1.2million/property cause it's fuggin nice and they all found out and we jumped by 50 people.... lol

[@dingobonza]

It's genuinely strange to see outsiders. There's 3 families here. And a few others who've moved that are now accepted. So when an outsider comes out here everyone is understandably on alert, it's not uncommon

[@mojowwwav4357]

@@dingobonza I assume those 3 families all vaguely inbred?

[@cirtainrod9492]

Ive have lived in the country all my life.....let me explain. Whenever i have gone to the city, your people acted like snobs.

[@ziadaine7039]

Holy shit the classic mall in country towns is spot on, ESPECIALLY still having a Sanity store.

[@davidwarren9204]

"Do you feel like eating foreign?" "Yeah, I could inhale a Zambrero."

[@imirockz]

Lithgow Zambero feels like walking into a confused community centre hall

[@peepeetrain8755]

Zambrero?

[@pantonman]

Inner city pubs - trying to be really flash restaurants serving small portion meals Rural pubs - parma and chips; steak and chips; fish and chips; schnitzel and chips; sometimes pie and chips. Whatever you order you get chips, an enormous meal served on a plate the size of the MCG

[@jackgarrix4150]

Convinced you want to buy a house in the city so released this to lower demand. Well played

[@dunnymunch21]

grew up in the country and moved to Sydney. After 12 years of commutes and struggling to save for a house i moved back. I now have more money and more time. I miss the food the most but i just drive down to Sydney now and then on weekends to experience the benefits. If you can get a decent job in a country town i recommend giving it a go.

[@dingobonza]

Yup I moved to the city for work, moved back to the country for a WFH role and just have so much more money now.

[@weburnitatbothends]

ssshhhhh man

[@davidbrayshaw3529]

Grew up in Melbourne. Moved out 26 years ago. I miss the bay. Next time I'll see that is when they're tipping my ashes in it.

[@rowangirdler7428]

The city is fun to visit for like half a day. Then it gets exhausting insanely quick. Country towns are fun to visit for like 90 minutes. Then you've seen everything and start to realise what it must feel like to live there, and can't get away quick enough. Not saying the suburbs are great either, but if you find the right one I think they're the best you can do in Australia. I grew up in the Dandenong Ranges about 1 hr east of Melbourne and have never found anywhere else I'd rather live.

[@JReklis]

My favourite part of living in the country is paying it forward to a regional council 70km away that will not spend money outside of their cbd

[@focusfolks]

Aw shit... this

[@gramophoneshane]

lol sad but true

[@thelandlord111]

Don’t need to be country for that. Just move to Newcastle and watch everything go to Sydney.

[@weburnitatbothends]

​@@thelandlord111 or live in Queensland and watch it all go to the SE corner

[@JReklis]

@@thelandlord111 Newcastle appears to have it's own city council but if you are referring to land taxrs and other wroughts by state gov then try living 400km or so from your capital city in a blue team stronghold under a red team state gov... you might be lucky if they plonk a gulag in your electorate without following town planning procedure from time to time and that's about it

[@tasquizztaylor1698]

Today in my country town: there's no diesel, no bread, no fresh fruit, 14 job offers, you can't drink the tap water and your car just got stolen. But simultaneously named the largest iron ore port, largest container export port, highest average rent, and shi+est town in Australia.

[@michellesgarden5695]

Are you in Newcastle..I know they export coal but when you wrote containers I wasnt sure...it meant either there or WA

[@tasquizztaylor1698]

@@michellesgarden5695 hint, we export lithium in containers

[@kamaru93]

Ahh Port Hedland? Might be time to move 😂

[@thelandlord111]

Port Pirie

[@tasquizztaylor1698]

@@thelandlord111 if you think port pirie is the largest iron ore port in Australia I think you need to take a mirror to bed and wake up to yourself

[@mrbiff75]

Haha you got us there jordies. In goulburn everyone wears flannys and trackie bottoms no matter what! Loved seeing the Centro mall and the lotus Chinese shop in the vid too, we got our Sanity and Michelle's patisserie and local fish and chips shops was spot on. Though every place in the country has their 'thing' like we have the Big Merino (with 3m wide ballsack). Though everyone in the city thinks Goulburn is the size of Collector though and I can't blame em haha

[@KJD1984]

Haha man, Goulburn… it is our closest town, I’m lucky enough not to live in town, it’s a shithole, food is crap. Goulburn has everything you need and nothing you want! The Big Merino is awesome with his massive dusters though. I always have a chuckle at everyone taking selfies out front of it..

[@dingobonza]

Centro for gympie too when I go into town haha

[@lancerd4934]

Sincere question from Bathurst - why does the coke at your maccas always taste weird compared to every other maccas in the country?

[@KJD1984]

@@lancerd4934 not sure, too much sheep shit in the water maybe? Lol

[@user-ce9xe1qe8i]

@@KJD1984 Bruh you can get the best thai in Goulburn and the chicken shop is great too. But apart from Maccas that's it

[@talesfromthebottle6314]

As someone who grew up in the city and moved bush the tv ads get me. Every second ad is for either pesticide or some sort of injection you just have to use on your cattle 😂😂

[@waz001979]

I"m a bit sad this week over the death of a beloved local icon... Sanity at Wodonga Plaza is finally closing its doors 75% frisbees for the next 3 days

[@sharonsettle9079]

I'm from over the border Albury.

[@krissteel4074]

The best part about being 15 years behind is that the 90's was only 10 years ago

[@philippevial4352]

I did the city to country move recently and you are spot on about most of the issues, many of which have been fun to deal with. Sanity, however, is a necessity - try getting internet access once you leave city limits.

[@vicmaz8251]

Yes,no infrastructure out there,and the country party has been in power since WW2.?

[@susanmcmichael7293]

Armidale & Coffs Harbour have excellent NBN, thanks to Labor

[@lindasmith320]

Perth is the perfect balance between country Aus and city Aus. We get both Cirque de Soleil and the bogan circus at the same park within a couple of weeks of each other

[@sheridansometimes]

Having moved from Melbourne to Lismore, I don’t think there was enough representation on how everything fun or interesting to do can be wiped out overnight. 🌊😅

[@deanpd3402]

When I lived up that way, everyone expected floods.

[@liammartin3592]

It’s unfortunate we get floods and I live there too

[@jasonh.8754]

Many country towns are now just places where old people (and meth heads) wait to die. That's what happens when you gut manufacturing.

[@suparki123]

In the countryside, you can easily make friends with random strangers. In the city, people look at you weirdly if you just say hello to them.

[@RyuLightorb]

go to my hometown in the countryside people will tell you to fuck off if you try to talk to them in public ;P

[@fergspan5727]

Some run away and some call the cops 😂

[@gemh89]

Not so in Scotland, everyone will just chat with you, old ladies, junkies, anyone. We go and do it in London deliberately just to freak them out.

[@Lilybun]

As a city dweller I can confirm both parts. I'm not here to make friends and someone saying hello poses a risk of meeting a new person hence the odd looks. Cities are for people who want to be left alone. Lived in an apartment block for 15 years and met exactly one neighbour who was an old lady who I helped with some heavy doors on 3 occasions.

[@MitchGames247]

As someone who grew up in country NSW this video is spot on. My town may not have a JB-Hi-Fi but you can bet there's a pub on every corner of the cbd and at least one of them is an Irish Pub and another is called "The Royal"

[@mattbaines]

Orange?

[@politicallyincorrectpanda]

Rocky and Dubbo are not country towns! They are are cities compared to real country towns! You get one shop or one pub… you can’t have both! That’s a country town!!

[@deanpd3402]

The country town I'm moving to, has a population of 2000 and 2 pubs plus the mandatory club or two.

[@AshesOfGravity]

you are correct

[@kharnifex]

The food in Rocky is phenomenal, I was blown away. Dubbo is no longer country, it's basically oenrith

[@mariavanwyk3863]

My home town has a corner store which sells piss petrol and takeaways you can book up ya piss and knock on the store owners door after hours that was the only shop we did get a bowls club but u got to get the keys from the shop and serve yourself there is no pokies no music a pool table a lawn bowls green and a bar but you use it you refill it and serve yourself

[@TheSilmarillian]

Yep and 1 IGA

[@Sherudons]

Did a short time in the bush at a town called killarney when I was younger, the place itself was a place you want to end up in, no noise, small community and the bush walk had a nice little creek you could have a relaxing wander or sit down at, my hope as unlikely as it is would be to finish off in a little side of the world and watch it all pass me by.

[@EddyWoon]

Killarney is a beautiful place. I had moved from the city to live and work in Clifton. The people here are great and it is a peaceful little town.

[@DriftKulture]

Country might be 15years behind the city but the whole country is at least 10years behind the rest of the world.

[@InnuendoXP]

Honestly in some ways it feels like the country is 10 years behind where it was 10 years ago. Went back to Aus & watched Aussie TV for the first time since 2012, saw the Paul Murray show. Clowns like that being successful is a pretty frightening barometer. Australian media has somehow managed to become higher budget than a lot of Yank or Pommie media and STILL be more shit than it was 15 years sgo

[@classyrassy1790]

​@@InnuendoXP I would very much disagree. Television is old hack anyway and no one cares about it. Where things really matter is in the realm of social media and video games, and on that front we've done very well I think. Australians have a disproportionate presence on social media and video games like Cult of the Lamb have gone really big.

[@InnuendoXP]

@@classyrassy1790 That's all cool & good for everyone under 30. For GenX & up though, it means we're worse than the states. You seen the state of Aussie Facebook outside of meme groups lately?

[@jasonh.8754]

That way we can see what works and avoid the most embarrassing stuff.

[@helixator3975]

Thank god

[@betula2137]

Australian cities could actually benefit from getting the best of the country with the best of the city -- but our urban design is either non-existent or was hijacked by the oil/auto industries and redlining Americans. Well, it's responsible for all the bad things we associate with the city, and it contributes to more-wastefully consuming the countryside, and monopolising real estate and development to be only viable for large ones. There is also virtually no transport choice (car-dependence, the cost of which people underestimate), and vulnerable people are isolated with no freedom or community. So, it's apolitical to fix it to be more equitable, with right-leaning reasons given by "Strong Towns", and socially-progressive ones by the Bruntletts, etc. A country example is the Netherlands, which has the happiest drivers and children -- simultaneously (I know). It's best to take a view of 'the more you know, the less you think you know', because studying urban design has made me deceased

[@Vamooso]

To be fair, Australian public transport isn't nearly as bad as most American cities

[@betula2137]

@@Vamooso True, but we probably shouldn't really be comparing ourselves with one of the worst examples, though from which we've taken much inspiration from, but not become as bad as for a number of reasons (most probably unrelated to urban design, just in terms of how good our institutions are). Well, there's lots of retrofitting going on, and it wouldn't be good if we wait just to have to follow the US again if they manage to get out of what they're in...! We do have a lot of examples in Australia from what we've done in the past, though it was foreshadowed we'd be living off the remnants of the past, which is kind of true -- we have lots of primate cities (Sydney, etc) with only one centre, the historic centre, which have all become CBDs. So, instead of organically treating Australia as our home, sensitively growing and cresting our own material, we've kind of become rigid -- we did try with Canberra, but the problem is it was built in the 20th century (when all the bad policies dictated development), rather than other planned cities like Paris in the 19th. So... not sure what I said, but we should reclaim what we associate with 'European', in terms of urban design that improves our well-being, is charming, and also practical (which is how they built it, cheaply and based on human demand, but with later modcons). So, yes, we just have the suburban paradox (which is not aimed at true suburbs pre-WW2, which are now inner suburbs but used to be the fringe between urban and countr -- but the urbanised grey thing they've become by arbitrary or reactionary regulations) and lots of congestion without much community self-sufficiency, contrary to what our population would suggest...

[@midgetwars1]

I mean, this is kinda why they have apartments there too. Non insane density, but light density is still good

[@katiebarnshaw]

love to see car dependence being discussed, thanks champ!

[@betula2137]

@@midgetwars1 Yeah. It's not so much density that seems out of place, it is a result of that poor planning. Basically, villages should have a village feel, which isn't just that they're surrounded by lots of country, but how intimate it is, with human-scale organic spotaneity, with the roads and lanes carved by human movement, the tangibility of tactile surfaces -- the evolution forms a cohesive ecosystem, and you can use your imagination to see how it came to be, and to form close attachments to each of the homes and their faces. So, those quaint villages which you'd see in Europe, Asia, etc., were also basically what we built in Australia (because they are just practical, and today social factors from back then no longer exist). Villages sprouted based on some economic driver, and it would grow from a few farm-houses to different types of buildings (very flexible -- I recommend Black Forest Family's simply-explained video[s] on zoning). These are the magic little extensions of the land we see in many parts of Australia, and you can see villages in many different stages -- most captured in a stasis, like the rest of the village is observing that old part rather than wholly being. So, yep, a lot of association-biases, preconceptions, etc. We can definitely build more sensitive buildings and forms (the majority of buildings, just forming a happy streetscape with diversity but cohesion), and give people the choice to live how they want, rather than continue to treat housing as an abstract commodity! Also, that would mean houses are worth closer to what they're actually worth (ya know, rather than everything being unaffordable and static). Also, while planning laws are strict and based on exclusion, building laws are actually behind most other developed countries (things like energy efficiency which isn't even compliant, soundproofing, longevity, etc.) ... oh and we have awful use of public space and green space often, like, not much quality greenery that everyone can bathe in, but a lot of wasted wasteland space and greyness I keep on rambling sorry

[@WXDylan]

There’s always like 10 bakeries in country towns that are all good and you can tell are competi g with each other, like in Beaudesert in qld

[@dogtheories]

i used to live in a country town and work at one of those bakeries that was always competing with the other one haha its not a country town if you dont have three choices for exactly the same cheese and bacon pie but one was made last week as opposed to last month

[@SleepyCroyd]

I moved to a small QLD town and can assure you, fish is cooked for at least twice as long *because* it's suss. Just lean into it and think of it like those teppanyaki prawn heads cooked until they are powder. Our local Chinese food is so oily we discovered it is a decent alternative to Deisel... what with the recent lack of a fuel tax relief for the poor sods who don't use petrol. And let's not forget that there are two churches per house-hold and only one local paper that comes out three times a week and costs more than its content could possibly justify.... its mostly just the local court report with ads that go on forever. Then there's the local radio station, which just runs a series of ads seperated by advertorials set on a 30 minute loop. The biggest competition in town concerns who got the most rainfall yesterday and did you get this week's special whatsit at Aldi. Pure paradise!

[@weburnitatbothends]

Wow you have an Aldi!

[@davidbrayshaw3529]

Just the way I like it. I just wish I was Catholic. The presbyterian church is 10 miles out of town where I live and hasn't had a roof since the storms, 12 years ago.

[@dougwhiley4028]

A year ago I moved to a small town in Tasmania. Here's the upside - There is no crime. I've seen a police car 6 times in a year. They were just driving through. There is almost no traffic. You can just park your car outside any shop you go to. There is no aggression. Kids just ride their bikes to the primary school down the road. The local nickel mine has highly paid jobs available. You can buy a house for $200 000. You can buy a block of land for $50 000. Here's the downside - there are few businesses. You have to pay inflated food prices at the IGA. There isn't much to do here except outdoor activities such as hiking, camping, riding dirt bikes. If you want to go shopping, you have to drive 2 hrs each way to go to a Bunnings , department store etc. If someone opened a new business in this town, it would do well because of all the mining money. Except for summer, it's cold and rains a lot here. If you live alone, it can be lonely. I live in Zeehan Tasmania.

[@thomasbrindle7308]

As a current country high schooler (yr12), you notice that since the advent of the tiktok and other social media, the culture of gen z is becoming increasingly more homogenised with the city. Country gen z kids are still awesome until they reach about the age of 14-15 where they get consumed by there phone like the rest of the city kids and lose all their character

[@NoMusiciansInMusicAnymore]

I've been told that the post office in the city actually delivers things too you instead of just the little "sorry we missed you" slips, Also life in the country isn't cheaper, the real estate is sure, but do a grocery shop at an IGA, it'll cost you at least 2 of those geishas

[@hegeliandetective1034]

Just be sure to have the home's FOUNDATION inspected, and be very careful looking at the HVAC system and around the vents, be sure to look for mold and look for foundation issues. Also be sure they have emptied the septic system and that it's in good condition. My family learned the hard way, foundation issues, mold issues, and septic system issues. Other than that, if you can find a CLEAN home without foundation/mold/septic systems, and the water well is good, you'll live better than royalty.

[@deanpd3402]

Well I bought vacant land and we are building. With everything required to be built to BASIX standards, we won't have those problems. Plus it's going to be cheaper than buying a second hand house.

[@slidewayzgreer2740]

Must of been a Friday arvo when you got your building inspection done

[@catherinepohlman6957]

Don't forget the termites.

[@thomm6736]

Every small town must have at least three pubs and one OP shop which in turn must have at least one Kamal record available.

[@nelsbot]

lol so true trying to dig through records in a country town all you find is kamal records, living strings incidental music and 60s country music compilations or classical compilations

[@thomm6736]

@@nelsbot haha for sure! Normally I find that the golden three are Kamahl, Nana Mouskouri and Harry Secombe with some variant of Tchaikovsky album as an honorable mention 😅

[@danrobinson8380]

I’d add old Chad Morgan records to that list. His big rude head on the album covers used to scare the bejesus out of me when I was a little kid walking past those stores.

[@nelsbot]

@@thomm6736 Percy faith and the Beatles if your lucky enough

[@Josh_Stuchbery]

I swear my town has a new OP shop every week.

[@vihmaussivenitaja]

A Soviet born person here - WE ALSO HAD INFINITE SPACE IN SOVIET UNION!!! :D In all other places apart from Moscow and St Petersburg, at least. But they made 5 designs for apartment blocks, differing mostly by their size, and just built the same buildings everywhere, all over the empire, from one ocean to the other. In Estonia you can see apartment blocks in the middle of totally empty fields, built for collective farm workers. As for how similar the apartments were - there's even a comedy movie about a drunk guy accidentally flying to St Petersburg thinking he's in Moscow, taking a taxi to his address, both cities have the same address, and both addresses have the same kind of building, so you can guess the plot from there :D (It is called "the irony of Fate")

[@ddkW123]

The one that spun me out was when I found a fully operational blockbuster video in Murray Bridge SA - this was years after they had all gone under. It was still trading up until a few years ago.

[@BromellFilmCorp]

When I moved to Brisbane from Grafton NSW in 2018 I was shocked on how backwards a capital city in Australia was in comparison to the least funded area in nsw

[@AJWRAJWR]

Grafton's two-storey Macca's beats the one in Springwood or Rocklea. But it is the main attraction.

[@billjackrock]

In my experience moving from the country to study and work in the city has had some significant and immediate downsides, mainly being the high ongoing cost of living and loss of ability to benefit from living at home. Anyone who lives with family in the city and is able to stay home and save until their 30 has such a big advantage. Now as a graduate moving back to the country would be nice and all, but with less work opportunity in the country and less opportunity to meet a partner it really make it feel like such a restrictive choice. With that said though given the opportunity to move without these downsides then it's a no brainer, living in the country is that much better of a lifestyle.

[@monimoobag246]

All facts

[@Bysentenial]

Our sanity's just shut down this year... all 3 of them.

[@billjackrock]

I just learnt that the Sanity in my home town closed down. I still remember the day it opened and replaced the country town knock off version owned by "Leading Edge Music". There was so many of these Leading Edge in my home town. So nostalgic. So trash.

[@MattBlack6]

Mate I live in a fairly small town about halfway between the Gold Coast and Byron Bay and about 20 minutes inland from the coast. House prices are f****** horrendous. If interest rates keep going up we will probably end up in a shoebox in the middle of the road

[@peepeetrain8755]

Northern rivers region are one of the most inflated prices in the country, especially the north east, hope you find financial security soon. No one can deal with high prices, especially when you live in a small town that doesn't have any of the opportunities or jobs as a city.

[@MattBlack6]

@@peepeetrain8755 I'm ok. Bought a house in my early 20s, 20 years ago. It's people renting that I'm sorry for. And that's plenty of my contemporarys.

[@dogstar234]

I live in the country and everything said here is frighteningly accurate...

[@timh6845]

Depends whether you were off a property or a “townie”

[@A·c·h·i·l·l·l·e·s·Last·Stand]

I live in a Darwin and can confirm we live in a weird paradox of both worlds. But visiting Katherine always makes me feel weird because its just too small, and visiting Sydney really does make me feel invisible

[@possummagic3571]

Aye! A fellow Darwinite! Hey, how good is that Paul's Iced Coffee? Aren't you glad you live in the Top End?!

[@grandmothergoose]

Half my life in outer Western Sydney, half my life in Broken Hill, love both places each for different reasons. There's no sanity in Broken Hill, of either kind. The thing that makes me laugh the most about Broken Hill is when some even slightly unusual thing happens everyone freaks out and the rumours start and go waaaay over the top (eg: a man was found dead on a footpath at the front of his house. Possible heart attack, stroke or other non-suspicious circumstances. That was the real story. The rumour turned it into a mass shooting and multiple stabbing within less than an hour.) The thing that makes me laugh the most about outer Western Sydney is that utter chaos can rain from the sky and everyone shrugs and figures it must be Tuesday.

[@pauln07]

Final take away idea: bring back the goths

[@tytoaster5370]

The reason we have apartment blocks is because people from the city keep friggin moving here till we have a vacancy rate of 0.02% and then the housing market is unaffordable to locals

[@piotrprzytycki7919]

Aye fk off we're full

[@yt.personal.identification]

If you want a bit of both city and country together...try Adelaide.

[@ADerpyReality]

You go out 30km and the horse people change. City horse people are so tense, even slightly out of city calm, happy, not freaking out that other people exist near their horses.

[@Chloe-wp5zn]

Traffic is still bad though… but at least we have a Sanity up north

[@victoriawalker4668]

Or Newcastle!

[@hearandnowrecordings]

i got a parking ticket [some years ago] and it was $8 ...i skipped into the place to pay whistling dixie ....i just could not believe it ...pritty sure the lady bhind the counter thought i was on drugs...even then i would pay more for parking in 2 hours in sydney

[@peepeetrain8755]

@@victoriawalker4668 Newcastle is just 50% people from the country and 50% people born in Newy but parent's are from the country!, talk to anyone from a country town NSW and they will say "I'm moving to Newcastle in a few years, Sydney is too hectic and expensive"

[@rorywilson3252]

Love how many photos here were just of the main street in Bendigo

[@watcherofthenight]

As a Rocky local I'll have you know it's a Wendy's not a doughnut king. That way you can have your icecream melt on the way to the car in Summer

[@weburnitatbothends]

No Wendy's to be found the last time I was there with a hangover

[@watcherofthenight]

@@weburnitatbothends its right infront of the Coles in city centre plaza

[@Wednesdayat11]

Using multiple photos of Bendigo... Jordan's fixated... GET 'EM!!

[@AfferbeckBeats]

Fish and chips has gotta be the most hit or miss 'fast' food. It's either a beautifully crispy fluffy golden parcel of delight, or it's pale stodgy floury bullshit. There is no in between, and it's always really expensive, because tourists.

[@atariischaotic]

As so,e one who lives in a tiny country town, we only have a primary school and a pub. Top priorities

[@kjs8719]

being a retired, cirque du soleil trained circus performer, who lives in a small country town, I can confirm this is an accurate representation

[@mariusdufour9186]

In theory apartment blocks in country towns allow for more density near the centre of town and/or the train/bus station. This means more people can cycle or walk to those locations and it becomes more profitable to set up small businesses in the core of the town and more affordable to provide a decent public transport service connecting your country town with the closest city.

[@SEITANBOEF]

Bro I grew up in Rocky, spot on as always

[@ambermay7032]

Even better when the 'town' has one shop and that shop is everything. Grocery with weird brands, servo, bottleo, pub, takeaway, town meeting place, truck rest stop...

[@FellowHuman5000]

Best difference i've noticed is the police, in the city- an officer flagging you down is always to shake a buck out of you, in the country- there is likely an actual hazard up ahead and they are either warning you or need a hand. Community policing still lives in the outback.

[@Lilybun]

Queensland police so far have been really nice to me. Maybe they're just happy to not have to interface with someone on meth for once. Heard some similar horror stories to yours about cops from other states tho.

[@beastmaster5209]

the only thing stopping me from moving out to the middle of BF nowhere is a decent internet connection.

[@ScuzzySera]

Yeah but have you heard of starting fires instead?

[@xanderstuff7]

But you can't get that in the city either

[@michellesgarden5695]

Depending where you consider BF nowhere is what you look at for internet connection. Phone service is a great example....Broken Hill has better service than the outskirts of Bendigo

[@peepeetrain8755]

move to like Armidale, which was a tester city for NBN and has good internet compared to the rest of the nation, any of the towns from 20k-70k population will have decent internet

[@Henlofly]

I've experienced both city and country life, not all but most country people are more intelligent have their own thoughts and are mentally stronger. Most city people regurgitate the same thing they read on the news or social media the night before.. Bunch of NPCs in the cities I tell ya. But yes some country people live under rocks and have no idea about the "current political and economic state of the world" to quote my boy Jaden

[@zybch]

More right leaning in the country though. mainly from habit passed down through the generations.

[@kingbillycokebottle5484]

And to be fair, why should we? Is not that the reason for the monarchy? To look at pollies doing dodgey shit and doing nothing about it so we don't have to?

[@mikespike2099]

I lived in an townhouse in Mildura for a bit … weird … heaps of land but a block of town houses … I’d always get the country blokes knocking on the wrong door for their missus … directed them to the right door then proceeded to hear a country night of passion through the walls!!! Noice👍🏻

[@ANFMC-LSRMC]

@@zybch Nobody gives af out here about the left or right.

[@KruelAidMan]

I seriously doubt the places where the Nationals get their voter base have more intelligent people stoooooge

[@lousreviews9393]

And then there’s Adelaide, a beautiful blend of the two. Everyone knows everyone in the city, and somehow everyone in the city is also from the country, and no one in the city is actually from the city. Drive 15 minutes out of the CBD and would you believe it, you’re deep in the country. Also Keith has a rollercoaster in its playground.

[@Sargnort]

They also still use CASH!!! Not so much in the city.

[@di_ibzy]

My old man still uses a cheque book lol

[@anyatrioli3734]

Ooffff, that must be annoying!

[@anthonyjones5345]

In regional Victoria, me and my sister and heaps of my classmates got onto the front page of our local paper, the north central review, because there were 7 sets of twins starting year 7 in the same year in the same school. We also made the front page when they did a follow up story in year 10

[@thelandlord111]

Sounds like a genetic issue

[@nostalgiaof98]

6:21 Can you see the Green Cube, mate? Yeah, nah Bendigo's losing the country town vibe. Ballarat is more like Bendigo now. It's like a fucken minimelbourne wannabe. Everywhere is just tourism and "family friendly" shit, Bendigo hasn't got edge anymore. I miss MusicMan and Billy Hyde's. Oh yeah and well done for forcing the hoons to a tiny suburban car park annoying the neighbourhood instead of in the city doing burnouts at Coles.

[@Snoop_Dugg]

They’re prepping for the Commonwealth games

[@nostalgiaof98]

@@Snoop_Dugg gonna turn the mall into a stadium now?

[@Snoop_Dugg]

@@nostalgiaof98 Apparently they want a good segment of the games to be held in regional Victoria

[@tru-manmusic7709]

Fuck yeah Goulburn represent. Thanks for using all those background photos from there

[@eegleweege]

Sanity also has DVDs, board games, and jigsaw puzzles. Remember when Scott Morrison said that jigsaw puzzles were an essential item?

[@Pucknuckle]

Honestly I've always loved Cirque Du Soleil but I haven't been to see it for years, and if your description is in any way accurate to what it's become lately it just makes me want to go even more

[@DrDribs]

Born country, went city 10 years, then country for 4 years, back in the city as people play Warhammer here, case closed!

[@kharnifex]

I saw people playing warhams up in Blackwater north of Rocky

[@danokeefe7116]

@@kharnifex Orcs playing orcs, nice!

[@Cenodeath]

Yeah being a nerd in a small town is social suicide unfortunately :(

[@Globeglider]

I moved to Castlemaine, don't miss Melbourne for a second. tho admittedly Castlemaine is basically Northcote with more space.

[@grantwhitbourne]

Having proper stories in the Country (versus looking at a social media post in the City) is pretty darn accurate

[@Minkfang]

My local sanity store has a wide selection of novelty salt n pepper shakers

[@thecoloneldownunder336]

The country diet, to quote an old Jordies vid: "MEAT, SALT TO CURE IT, SUGAR. What's good enough for our founding fathers on the First Fleet is good enough for me."

[@brucegibbins3792]

So it's a primitive barely sustainable life you seek?

[@bigmate4721]

Based longtime fan

[@jimmyboydonald6578]

I live in Maitland, NSW. It has been in the shadow of Newcastle for most of the time where you would travel to if Maitland didn't have it. When the Stockland at East Maitland got a massive expansion with David Jones, H&M, JB-Hi Fi, Hoyts Cinema and several other shops and restaurants getting added, I go into Newcastle a lot less frequently. It's not too far from Sydney if you want to do a day trip or weekend in the big city.

[@priceprice_baby]

I wish there was a Toowoomba Times. They only have the Murdoch owned Chronicle :-(

[@annieinwonderland]

Get on to the coffee gazette, it's done by the uni.

[@jayjayspoon8824]

In the Country a place where every mum has 25 firearms

[@kookedaburra3895]

I’m from the country, I just generally find people in the city rude, and it’s too crowded for me. When I worked at the bottlo, people from Sydney or Melbourne would always say “everyone here is so polite” and I always thought about how when I was in the city, everyone was so rude and in a hurry to get wherever they were going. Country life > City life

[@fergspan5727]

100%

[@classyrassy1790]

Personally, I really appreciate the fact that in cities, people just don't care about who or what you are and just leave you alone. Its awesome to know that everyone has just got better things to do than go around policing other people or caring about what other people do in their private lives. Makes being a trans women on the autism spectrum who's into occult stuff, quite easy. Country people from my experience though are about the opposite of this. They are so weirdly self sanctimonious and are extremely judgemental towards others, specially towards people who are not visibly like themselves.

[@NavsVendetta]

Recently moved to a south coast beach town and saw an 70's punk rocker strolling over to the local mall. And yes, there is a Sanity in that mall.

[@tylerdotapp]

i’m going to be moving to a city, can’t wait to feel out of place and out of time but it’s mostly because i’m pissed off with not being able to realistically go anywhere without a car

[@victoriawalker4668]

I lived in kings cross for about 4 years. Had a car but hardly ever used it. Walked, bus, train everywhere. It was rad.

[@davidbrayshaw3529]

Don't move to Melbourne. If you do, you better be next to both a tram stop and a train station or you wont be going anywhere without a car.

[@Cenodeath]

100% this. Try going anywhere in the Northern Territory without a car... Expect a 10km walk.

[@scullzomben]

Holy crap that was a freaking shock. You show the picture of a fish n' chip shop and it is my local! And it is in the city too.