Freindliest Australian Town.
Jul 10th 2008, 9:55 pm
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Freindliest Australian Town.
Is there a region or a town, or a city or even a state that stands out as friendlier and more welcoming than anywhere else.
Reason I'm querying this, is I've just came back from Port Macquarie. A fairly affluent midsize town on the Northern NSW coast. It was a huge contrast to my recent trip to the UK, especially being there within 36 hours of landing in Melbourne. I didn't come across one grumpy person, every person that served me whether it be shop, garage, accommodation, restaurant, took time out to have a chat, even people in the street had a smile on their faces if you caught there eye. I can't work out yet, whether it was because of the contrast of being in different countries so soon or whether it was actually the people of Port M. Although I'll admit the residents there do seem a slightly friendlier than the average Melburnian interaction.... I'm not complaining about Melbourne though because on the whole people are very friendly here.
So do you find certain towns friendlier than others....
I can remember finding Albury very alien back in the 80's, somehow I suspect that may have been the company I was keeping at the time though.
Reason I'm querying this, is I've just came back from Port Macquarie. A fairly affluent midsize town on the Northern NSW coast. It was a huge contrast to my recent trip to the UK, especially being there within 36 hours of landing in Melbourne. I didn't come across one grumpy person, every person that served me whether it be shop, garage, accommodation, restaurant, took time out to have a chat, even people in the street had a smile on their faces if you caught there eye. I can't work out yet, whether it was because of the contrast of being in different countries so soon or whether it was actually the people of Port M. Although I'll admit the residents there do seem a slightly friendlier than the average Melburnian interaction.... I'm not complaining about Melbourne though because on the whole people are very friendly here.
So do you find certain towns friendlier than others....
I can remember finding Albury very alien back in the 80's, somehow I suspect that may have been the company I was keeping at the time though.
Jul 11th 2008, 1:32 am
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Re: Freindliest Australian Town.
Is there a region or a town, or a city or even a state that stands out as friendlier and more welcoming than anywhere else.
Reason I'm querying this, is I've just came back from Port Macquarie. A fairly affluent midsize town on the Northern NSW coast. It was a huge contrast to my recent trip to the UK, especially being there within 36 hours of landing in Melbourne. I didn't come across one grumpy person, every person that served me whether it be shop, garage, accommodation, restaurant, took time out to have a chat, even people in the street had a smile on their faces if you caught there eye. I can't work out yet, whether it was because of the contrast of being in different countries so soon or whether it was actually the people of Port M. Although I'll admit the residents there do seem a slightly friendlier than the average Melburnian interaction.... I'm not complaining about Melbourne though because on the whole people are very friendly here.
So do you find certain towns friendlier than others....
I can remember finding Albury very alien back in the 80's, somehow I suspect that may have been the company I was keeping at the time though.
Reason I'm querying this, is I've just came back from Port Macquarie. A fairly affluent midsize town on the Northern NSW coast. It was a huge contrast to my recent trip to the UK, especially being there within 36 hours of landing in Melbourne. I didn't come across one grumpy person, every person that served me whether it be shop, garage, accommodation, restaurant, took time out to have a chat, even people in the street had a smile on their faces if you caught there eye. I can't work out yet, whether it was because of the contrast of being in different countries so soon or whether it was actually the people of Port M. Although I'll admit the residents there do seem a slightly friendlier than the average Melburnian interaction.... I'm not complaining about Melbourne though because on the whole people are very friendly here.
So do you find certain towns friendlier than others....
I can remember finding Albury very alien back in the 80's, somehow I suspect that may have been the company I was keeping at the time though.
Jul 11th 2008, 2:16 am
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Re: Freindliest Australian Town.
Sounds good to me.
Shame on me though, after 28 years here and I've never visited Tassie. I blame the wife though, she wont go there outside of summer.
I found that not all towns are freindly, Goondawindi in Qland is full of what can only be classed as typical examples of Rednecks. Possibly the most racist town I've ever visited anywhere. Pretty hard to work out what they dislike the most Kooris or Mexicans (Victorians). I adopted my Pommy persona there, and found they were ok with that. For the short period I was there around 2 weeks, I was the Pom in the Mexican car. I dont know how my BiL stands the place.
Shame on me though, after 28 years here and I've never visited Tassie. I blame the wife though, she wont go there outside of summer.
I found that not all towns are freindly, Goondawindi in Qland is full of what can only be classed as typical examples of Rednecks. Possibly the most racist town I've ever visited anywhere. Pretty hard to work out what they dislike the most Kooris or Mexicans (Victorians). I adopted my Pommy persona there, and found they were ok with that. For the short period I was there around 2 weeks, I was the Pom in the Mexican car. I dont know how my BiL stands the place.
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Jul 11th 2008, 8:55 am
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Re: Freindliest Australian Town.
'even people in the street had a smile on their faces if you caught there eye'
were youre flies down????
were youre flies down????
Jul 11th 2008, 9:19 am
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Re: Freindliest Australian Town.
Hey - how are you? How was your trip back to MK then? Can't believe you've been and gone already. I do wonder if your impression of Port M (although it does sound very friendly) may be tainted from recently being here. I walked to the shops the other day and passed several people, smiled at them all and not one smiled back or said anything - hmmm, I wonder if my fly was open 
We got our visa this week, so, assuming the house sells, we'll be over there by Jan 09.
We got our visa this week, so, assuming the house sells, we'll be over there by Jan 09.
Jul 11th 2008, 9:52 am
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Re: Freindliest Australian Town.
Hey - how are you? How was your trip back to MK then? Can't believe you've been and gone already. I do wonder if your impression of Port M (although it does sound very friendly) may be tainted from recently being here. I walked to the shops the other day and passed several people, smiled at them all and not one smiled back or said anything - hmmm, I wonder if my fly was open
We got our visa this week, so, assuming the house sells, we'll be over there by Jan 09.
We got our visa this week, so, assuming the house sells, we'll be over there by Jan 09.
Could well be something to do with being in the UK. Being there on my own without the wife to pass time with, was a lonely experience.
Hope all goes well with your house sale and hopefully you make your January Target.
Jul 11th 2008, 10:15 am
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Funny part of the world the NSW Mid North coast. So close to Sydney, yet there are people on this forum who hate the joint.
Not sure if I could live there yet have a bit of a connection with it.
There's a doco on SBS about Kempsey tonight not far from where I spent a fair amount of time.
Not sure if I could live there yet have a bit of a connection with it.
There's a doco on SBS about Kempsey tonight not far from where I spent a fair amount of time.
Jul 13th 2008, 6:50 am
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Re: Freindliest Australian Town.
Sounds good to me.
Shame on me though, after 28 years here and I've never visited Tassie. I blame the wife though, she wont go there outside of summer.
I found that not all towns are freindly, Goondawindi in Qland is full of what can only be classed as typical examples of Rednecks. Possibly the most racist town I've ever visited anywhere. Pretty hard to work out what they dislike the most Kooris or Mexicans (Victorians). I adopted my Pommy persona there, and found they were ok with that. For the short period I was there around 2 weeks, I was the Pom in the Mexican car. I dont know how my BiL stands the place.
Shame on me though, after 28 years here and I've never visited Tassie. I blame the wife though, she wont go there outside of summer.
I found that not all towns are freindly, Goondawindi in Qland is full of what can only be classed as typical examples of Rednecks. Possibly the most racist town I've ever visited anywhere. Pretty hard to work out what they dislike the most Kooris or Mexicans (Victorians). I adopted my Pommy persona there, and found they were ok with that. For the short period I was there around 2 weeks, I was the Pom in the Mexican car. I dont know how my BiL stands the place.
... though must admit even that is a bit of a myth. yep in winters its cold but its certainly not as cold as we were led to believe 
