A question for Australian flutherites - Do people who live in Perth feel out-of-touch with the rest of Australia?
The distance from Perth to Sydney is almost 4000 miles. To Melbourne, a bit less: only 3400 miles. Depending on where you are, you can be either two or three hours off from the other side of the country.
This isn’t that much different from New York—> San Francisco or LA, but the difference is that there are lots of large cities between the coasts, and in Australia, precious few.
Do many people make the drive from Sydney to Perth?
Do Perthians feel remote and disconnected?
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Having visited Perth/Fremantle only a couple times I have a limited perspective.However, WA did feel incredibly remote. It felt like it’s own separate country. That actually added to the awesome.
It is a long way from the East coast to the West. It costs quite a bit to visit too (cheapest around $350 one way) and it’s about five hours in the air and they’re two or three hours behind us timewise (depending on whether daylight saving is happening). As to whether sandgropers feel remote and disconnected, I think they might feel they are overlooked in terms of political policy. The Federal government’s political focus tends to be on what’s happening on the East coast.
Do they feel excluded in other ways? I’m not sure. I’ll see if I can ask any of them. My sense is that they feel they live on the best coast, and they’re not missing out on much by being so far away. Perth and Freo (Fremantle) are beautiful places. I’ve never been to Broome, but I’d love to go there. They might feel disconnected in terms of visiting exhibitions, concerts and the like. Even in Brisbane we can feel a bit left out. Some overseas performers and bands will only go to Sydney and Melbourne and they won’t travel to other states. I’d guess it would be even worse for people in WA. At least we can fairly cheaply hop on a plane and go to Melbourne or Sydney. Perth to Melbourne airfares adds quite a high cost to the idea of going to a concert. The same would be true of exhibitions and the like. They are likely not to take them to WA.
I’m not Australian, just popping in to say that the wines from the Margaret River region are wonderful. :)
They certainly are @Haleth and it’s a beautiful region. Then we’re very spoiled. The wines from the Barossa, McClarenvale and Hunter Valley are fabulous too. Tassie has some great wines. I like NZ wines too.
How about Adelaide. Now that’s left out. Lol
@trailsillustrated Adelaide was actually my favorite city in Australia when I visited (went to Melbourne and Sydney as well). I’m seriously considering moving there. Maybe it was because it had such a similar climate to California that it reminded me of home, but either way, I loved it. Perth seems a bit too remote to me, though…
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