What are you oddly proud of about Perth?
Perth is the third windiest city in the world, after Chicago and Wellington.
Posted Jan 1, 2011, 1:54 PM UTC
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edit: also, Tim Minchin
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perth is a great city, just wish it was a little more progressive and leant a little the way of melbourne's culture instead of brisbane's. it will be interesting in the next 20 years to see how it develops culturally.
err, proud of? umm, its clean.
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We're culturally arse-backwards, but got help us we're trying...
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Its slow quiet pace.
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We also have the largest IKEA in the Southern hemisphere (I think).
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not to mention the largest liquor store (Dan Murphys Balga)
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Really? I shall have to go take a look...
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We have the largest sexual health library in the southern hemisphere, too, so we should be really healthily sexy while shopping at the largest Ikea and the largest liquor store :).
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that when you drive down the freeways (particularly the mitchel) it looks like you are in the bush due to the large green strips they have.
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I love the amount of greenery we keep around Perth. I'm in Nedlands and the trees on everyone's verges practically enclose the road, making almost a tunnel of trees on some streets...
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It looks nice. Kings Park and the city. That place where you catch the ferry to go the zoo and there's the big park area by the river. I like you Perth, you purdy. :)
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Not oddly, but I am quite proud of the lighting stuff they did with council house.
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I think that looks kind of tacky.
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Seriously? I love it. Hell I want more buildings to do cool stuff like that. What about it seems tacky to you?
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I agree, it's a pretty ugly building but the lights bring it to life and give it a charm it never had before.
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I agree. Tacky++. Colour-changing LEDs were cool back in 1995. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
If they'd made it do some kind of crazy blinkenlights thing - flash messages or video clips or something - that'd be cool. But it's just tragic, I reckon.
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They should have used those 3D mapping light projections, Like this.
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Oddly enough, I like how backwards we are about not having sunday trading and also not having daylight savings.
I love that everything is closed on Sunday because it forces you to just chill at home rather than going to big shopping centres, and if you actually need anything you can just go to Dewson's or whatever and buy it there. It basically forces you to go shopping on Saturdays instead.
Also, seriously: fuck daylight savings. The sun stays out for long enough for us as it is.
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you can just go to Dewson's
Are these even still around? I thought they all changed to IGA?
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I'm still going to call it Dewson's and there's nothing you can do to stop me.
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Hah, I do the same with my local Dewsons and Supa Value. It's an easy way to distinguish between all the IGAs in my area.
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Just because you can shop on a Sunday, doesn't mean you have to. Nobody's twisting your arm..
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Yeah, I know, but I'm still oddly proud of Perth being as backwards as it is :)
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I have to admit, it does add a certain 'character' to the place, a sort of laid-back charm. If it weren't for all the times I've needed to do stuff on Sundays and past 6pm on weekdays and been prevented by country town laws, I'd probably quite like it.
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Yeah sorry can't think of anything here...
Will edit this if I do though.
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The integrated bus and railway - on the main very well thought out . Kings Park . Town - sort of . The Swan Valley . Fremantle . The Fremantle Doctor . The heat . The people .
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Chicago is by no means the windiest city in the US much less the world. Perth is certainly windier.
Having just shown some European visitors around the city, the 26 dolphins in the river are probably the nicest thing I can think of, and certainly what they were most impressed with.
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Huh, I was apparently misinformed regarding Chicago being the windiest city. We've stepped up one more place in the rankings :D
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When I googled it I saw that the claim of "third windiest city" was promoted by Perth tourism. And really, can you call Wellington a city? Maybe we're number one :)
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Our local cricketers.
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We got in to a cracked article (see #12) http://www.cracked.com/article_17256_17-more-images-you-wont-believe-arent-photoshopped.html
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where else can a bunch of redditors bust into a wikipedia meetup for the free t-shirts, then sit down with them for a few quiet drinks...hic!
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Its kinda strange but, Curtin is more well known than other overseas unis now since they have so many 'branches' nowadays.
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That I live in Melbourne
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I don't why you got downvoted because if you've been to Melbourne and live in Perth, you'd know. I hope to move there in the next 6 months.
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It's ability to go backwards every year.
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The continued lack of decent infrastructure development despite all the money rolling in. Yes. I am looking at you foreshore.
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The selfishness of the people regarding the mining tax.
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The anti-cultural establishment. Places like Fremantle, Mt Lawley and Northbridge look like former versions of themselves.
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The complete deadness of basically the entire city during week nights.
Every time I go back I am finding Perth to becoming more like Queensland and less like Melbourne. It seems the true gems are now located further south of Perth.
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Melbourne's great, if you care more about the shoes the other punters are wearing than the music of the band you paid to watch on stage...
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It's not a great place to visit, but you would wanna live there.
THIS.
Perth has the best lifestyle I've ever experienced.
I've travelled all over, but I'm 19 and so far I've lived in 3 cities in South Africa, and then in NZ: Nelson, Dunedin and Auckland (each 3 years) and nothing compares.
All my friends in NZ thought Perth was going to be dirt roads everywhere etc before I moved. I was like =/ but now I'm like hahaha idiots. I love how there's a ridiculously amount of roundabouts everywhere, and the public transport is PHENOMENAL. Probably not Japan phenomenal, but up there with the best.
It's reputation needs to be fixed from a "mining town" into the super modern, clean, beautiful, active lifestyle it is. Up by Mualloo where I live, just makes me happy every evening when I go out and cycle along the paths and see all the thousands of people out exercising everywhere with Perths awesome sunsets over the ocean.
yeah the round abouts are crazy. I suspect that is due to the large english migrant population that love round abouts that you get up that end of town (I grew up in Beldon). You are the first person I have heard who thinks the public transport is so good. I dont think it is that bad personally.
The transport is fine, it's the way it's run which is poor.