Ethnic minorities don't really count in the cultural impact of a city, at least as far as tourists are concerned. There are stacks of Brits and Americans in Paris for example, but most tourists don't see them.

I've been to Brisbane, Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, and as far as I'm concerned they are all pretty much the same. Same chainstores, same casinos, same people, same hectares of identical suburbia, same beaches, same food, etc.

Same as England then where every high street has a Boots, Next, M&S, Greggs, Top shop, Dixons/Currys, Starbucks, Weatherspoons etc

Welcome to the corporate world, one day the entire globe will be the same wherever you go.

What does bug me about Oz are the new suburbs that are knocked up ever so quickly, every single one is the same with sprawling 4x2s, and a Westfield in the middle next to a Bunnings, there are hundreds all over Australia, I think they must have just one master plan and go from that. The older suburbs have character and imagination, I guess town planners don't these days

That's just ridiculous - honestly, you couldn't have had a good look around.

yes - like the trueman show and perfectville- pretty to look at but not much else going on and completely lacking in substance. there is always ..the future high school.........the future tavern..........the future cinema.......the future golf club .....most residents will likely be dead before they are all built! still at least now there will be a competitor for bunnings once woolies gets their stores up - that should add a bit of diversity

I think a lot of countries are like that now - as an outsider the sameness of a lot of the UK surprised me as well - I would add same colour to that as well as every builder in the uk seems to use the same brown shade of bricks for each new era of building.

Unfortunately most of them are Brits (I should know - I teach at a Northern Suburbs High School, most of out troublesome kids are from good ole England, sad but true)

Agreed.

I visited Brick Lane twive when I was in London, got food poisoning twice too! Very overrated.

What one person finds boring, another doesn't. One person doesn't think there is any 'culture' in South London, other do. Why do people fail to understand this? So busy telling each other they are wrong, they fail to see the basic fact which is banged on about on here year in, year out; people are different.

Wookie - I live between Brixton and Tooting so know the curry shops and the market well. Neither of which interest me in the slightest. I dislike curry and the only cultural thing in Brixton is the Academy. I love living in South London but I'm afraid to say its nothing cultural.