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Brisbane is often called a "big country town" by other Australians, and it's 2.8 million people, so don't take that phrase too strongly :) That said, agreed wi
by rmccue 1y ago
Brisbane is often called a "big country town" by other Australians, and it's 2.8 million people, so don't take that phrase too strongly :)
That said, agreed with the GP - places like Boulder, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, or New Orleans are places that we know about through culture and are internationally recognised, while being much smaller than Australian cities. That's mostly a factor of a huge amount of English-speaking media being from the US.
Australia attempts to counter this through laws requiring a certain quota of Australian content in the media, but that hasn't really worked - and is one of the factors which spawned many Australian reality TV shows.
- devilbunny 1y agoNew Orleans is tiny by global scale and not very large even in the US. It is, however, culturally unique (there is nothing else even close) and strategically insanely important.
- josephg 1y agoPlenty of towns and cities in the UK are also totally unique culturally. I visited Edinburgh a couple years ago and was blown away by the city and its people. God, everyone I met was so funny and interesting. But it’s almost never depicted on tv, outside of the occasional BBC crime drama or something. And those usually don’t get much air time outside of the UK. Peaky blinders has done an amazing job telling some of the history of Birmingham. I want more of that! The world is just so big and interesting. Far bigger than Hollywood will ever bother to portray.