Imagine if USA Today covered car fires and a close vote in a school board decision to extend classes 10 minutes at the South Des Moines Junior High School. Well that is what happens in Australia. Each day we grabbed one of the national papers so we wouldn’t drive our car into a massive typhoon that everyone else seemed to know about.
The national papers rail off neighborhood names in cities and everyone in the country seemingly knows the exact location. Imagine reading about a fender bender in the Munjoy Hill section of Portland, Maine. The article just says, “Two cars collide in Munjoy Hill” The article doesn’t go on to say that the accident occurred in the Munjoy Hill neighborhood of Portland, in the state of Maine, in Northeast US. It just says Munjoy Hill. You would be totally lost. Well apparently not in Australia.
Australia is equivalent to the US in land mass, but it acts like one metropolitan area. And considering that there are only 20 million people it makes sense. It’s like a city of people who happen to have neighbors thousands of miles down the road.
As we came in on the plane a quick video introduction outlined how the vast majority of Aussies live in cities and within 30 minutes of the ocean. I kept picturing a ring of people, similar to a wedding reception dance floor, surrounding the two drunken fools dancing in the center of the country.
Good-on-ya mates keep dancing.
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