What is your favorite province of Australia?

[Platypus]

Niue.

Queenslanders are boorish; South Australians are boring. Matter of personal preference, really.

Do you mean Nauru?

Niue is a dependency of New Zealand in Polynesia (New Zealand took over those British colonies that didn't want independence, except for some reason Pitcairn.) Over half of Niue islanders actually live in New Zealand rather than on Niue these days. IIRC NZ's ethnic structure is something like 82% White, 10% Maori, 6% other Polynesian. (And the appropriate racial slur for a new arrival from Polynesia is "fob".)

It's also ultra-socially conservative. From what I understand the island is completely dry, no alcohol allowed at all, and fishing is illegal on Sundays.

Anyway, probably ACT if what hugh says is true, what are the laws like? To find out more, I'll probably have to research on where the best strip clubs are.

The best would either be Sydney or Melbourne, Melbourne would have a better average. The ACT...not sure; but they'd probably be alright if few. As I said, it's a lot more suburban. I think the ACT would better suit opebo; but I think Brunswick, a suburb of Melbourne, is designed for you. You have to catch a tram into the city (10 mins.) or over to St. Kilda (20 mins. with good connection) for the strip clubs, but it would be your kind of place. Maybe, Fitroy or Northcote. You'd be inner north, anyway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Suburbs_of_Melbourne

Well you know what I think of suburbs. I'd just live in Melbourne proper.

Too expensive, and I don't think you'd enjoy it.

Remember, Australian suburbs are rather different from America's; our inner cities as well. Inner suburbs, like Brunswick and Fitroy and to a lesser extent Northcote, are not home to McMansions at all, are close to everything, have significant commercial districts, but remain primarily residential. It's a bit more of the European version then the American, but also unique...it's hard to explain, but read the article on Brunswick, and it might give a better understanding of what our inner city is. It's hard to really compare and contrast as I haven't been to America, but the word suburb doesn't mean McMansion here, although those areas are suburbs too...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Thing to remember about Australia and suburbs is that the capitals of each state have a tendency to be (by far) that state's major population centre. Quite strange really. Not many large cities outside the capitals; Newcastle, NSW is the largest IIRC.

[Colin]

BTW, you fail if you answer Queensland, South Australia or New South Wales; scrape a pass at WA, average pass for ACT or NT, good pass for Tassie, and perfect mark for Victoria.


edit-TWO votes for South Australia? You people have no soul *glares*

(of course, if the only reasons for you selecting South Australia were Coober Pedy, Kangaroo Island and maybe the murray near the border...you might have a soul. Just a very dark, rotten one that will spend teternity in the deepest depths of hell )

Oh you know that I have no soul already Hugh and yes I did vote for SA. I mostly picked it because I loved Adelaide and the wine country. Seemed like such a nice place and also because of Kangaroo Island which was very lovely. What's with all the Southern Australia bashing Hugh? I thought you approved of them? What happened? Did they screw over your favorite footy team or something?

[minionofmidas]

Basically the Australian usage of "suburb" is more akin to what you'd call a "neighborhood" in a major American city.

[MasterJedi]

Queensland

[opebo]

Victoria, obviously.

To be honest, ACT would probably suit you better. More suburban, but also the loosest sex and pornography laws by a long long way.

Very interesting!  Do you have any idea what the going rate is there?  Are there asian girls?  Is there activity on the street or is it all very controlled?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Australia has lots of Vietnamese, but I don't know what areas they're in.

[ag]

As they said here: suburb in Australia is not a suburb in the US. If Australian usage were transferred to the U.S., New York City would go from the Battery to Canal Street - it's basically the CBD. Soho and the Village would have been inner suburbs (and so would be the North End and Back Bay in Boston). Melbourne's Fitzroy is quite Villageish, in fact, though I'd prefer something like Prahran or South Yarra (I know I am disgustingly yuppy on this).

Melbourne is a very, very pleasant city - I can't think of anything bad to say about it. Might get boring after a while - but it would take a while, actually. Sydney is much more exciting (and visually impressive), though. Unfortunately, it's almost unaffordable on Australian sallaries. Canberra - where is it, does it actually exist? I spend a whole of 36 hours there, and I couldn't find it. Hey, I couldn't even see it even from the air: is it a myth, or is it all underground, like the Parliament building, not to disturb the kangooroos ( )? I guess, it must seem a metropolis if you come from Waga Waga.

Overall, I think Victoria is the most pleasant: NSW has too much in terms of the real boondocks.

[minionofmidas]

Canberra - where is it, does it actually exist? I spend a whole of 36 hours there, and I couldn't find it. Hey, I couldn't even see it even from the air: is it a myth, or is it all underground, like the Parliament building, not to disturb the kangooroos ( )?

You're thinking of Coober Pedy.

[Platypus]

Canberra - where is it, does it actually exist? I spend a whole of 36 hours there, and I couldn't find it. Hey, I couldn't even see it even from the air: is it a myth, or is it all underground, like the Parliament building, not to disturb the kangooroos ( )?

You're thinking of Coober Pedy.

Actually, it's a reasonably describtion of Canberra. Basically, there are a series of major roads criss-crossing the are, in large green belts. those major roads lead to other roads, that lead to the suburbs. More or less, anyway, you can drive from the bottom of Tuggeranong (southern part of Canberra) all the way to Civic and barely see a building.