Australia roundup

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
1

Searched for a thread like it, couldn’t find it.

I’m new to the dope, but loving it so far. Only negative is it wastes hours of my time on circular divergences of personal research missions from nearly every thread I read in GQ!!! Also i feel dumber when i see the depth and breadth if knowledge of some of these guys and girls that post. Some smart cookies out there.

Anyway, obviously the board is pretty US-centric most of the time, but thought I’d do a roll call for how many aussies are regular here? I’ve seen a few references in recent threads, and user **Melbourne **is a likely candidate!

So how many of us are out there, and where you from? I’m in Perth. Hiding inside from the sun right now, meant to be digging holes in the garden but don’t think so in this weather with a 2nd day hangover.

2

G’day from Victoria. Good to have another Aussie on board. There are a few of us around :slight_smile:

3

Technically I’m a New Zealander, but I’ve lived in Melbourne since 1999 (with a one year detour to Sydney), and joined the SDMB the same year. As I sometimes will speak for both countries, I think there are regulars here who still don’t know where I live.

4

Welcome, welcome!

It so happens that not too far from Ottawa, Ontario, the capital of Canada, there is a town called Perth. If you draw a line from Perth, Ontario, straight through the middle of the earth, you come out in the Indian Ocean. The largest city near that location is Perth, Australia.

5

Hi

Another Perth resident here

6

Sydneysider reporting in.

7

Another New Zealander here, but living in Adelaide as I think my profile says. Been in Aus since 2000 and SDMB about the same time.

There used to be an SDMB Downunder website but I think it’s all died out.

8

NSW (a few hours north of Sydney)

9

Australian living in Melbourne, but lived in NZ for 15 years a while back (plus a lot of other countries as a kid).

10

Central Victoria, here.

11

I’m not from Perth, or even from Australia, but I have been to Perth a number of times. I think I still have a Transperth pass with a few rides left on it.

Very nice city, and I hope to return to it someday.

12

Another one of those from the East that you lot voted to be rid of in 1933.

Don’t think we have forgotten.

13

Good representation from my part of the country, but nobody from Brisbane or further north? I hope that’s not because Melbourne is the worlds most boring city? Tell me it isn’t so…

14

Another one from NSW here.

15

Hi Melbourne, Brisbane here! Welcome to the board, Richo. I check in just about every day to see what the smartest and hippest people on the planet are up to.

Well, they’re pretty smart, but maybe not the hippest anymore!

16

Well there’s me. Also Martini Enfield. And a couple of others I’m blanking on the name of right now.

17

Isn’t Cunctator from Sydney?

18

quite a few! I’m also from NZ originally. seems like there should be no-one left in NZ, after all the kiwis I meet elsewhere in the world.

19

I grew up in Darwin, lived in ACT/VIC for a few years, and moved to California. But I still count myself as an Aussie!

20

I was a born and bred Brisbanite up until two months ago, when my wife and I moved to the UK. We’ve just settled into a new flat in Stratford, London, but I still consider Australia home.