Country
Old-fashioned community values. A big house, with an even bigger backyard. Fresh air, no traffic and keeping your own cows and chooks. How idyllic, says the reluctant city dweller. Imagine the serenity.
But are these simple pleasures enough to drag you away from your convenient and fast paced life in the city for good?
A group of South Australian farmers from Wirrulla near Lake Eyre are hoping that it will. As long as you’re a woman. Between the ages of 20 and 60, single, and ready to settle down for a life on the farm.
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Welcome to this week’s “I Call Bullshit”, which has been slowly percolating inside of me for many years.
It’s about the myth that there is a deep divide in this country between people who come from the cities, and the people who come from the regions, and that the latter are somehow fundamentally different from everyone else; that they are in some way more “real” Australians than the people who live in the comfort of the suburbs.
Somehow, we have accepted this notion that once you drive out of a big city, you cross some invisible line that maps out “real” Australia. It’s one great big construct that has no basis in reality.
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Sam says:
@ mark The past is alive and well, aussies seem to want time to stop and along with that the deeply ingrained racism aswell, country folk are part of the population and are part of the population issue to, this is the point of the story, the myth of country… Read more »
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Mark says:
@ Sam. The sun never sets on the British empire. Not my beleif, crap forced on me by and you by another culture, we can use history to reduce our future mistakes or live in the grudge of the past and just let the mistakes continue to happen, I have… Read more »
Leave the city behind. Leave the traffic and the noise, and the crime and the expensive real estate, and escape to somewhere… idyllic. Sounds great, doesn’t it? Maybe a little too good to be true.
Well it is. Watch out all you tree changers and sea changers - life outside the city can be divine. But it’s not some hazy-edged utopian dream.
Apparently Australians are leaving the big smokes - especially Sydney - in droves. They’re going to the coast, or near-city centres, or not-so-near-city-centres.
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Northern Steve says:
While Noosa is not Mlebourne, it’s not exactly country either. I suggest that if your commute was 130km each day, then the problem is not the country, but the fact your chose to live too far from your work. I live country, and have a 10 minute commute, seeing as… Read more »
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Northern Steve says:
NBN? You’re kidding, right. My exchange was on the list for upgrade to ADSL. Since the NBN was mooted, upgrades to ADSL have stopped. I doubt that I will get the NBN at my place, and if I do, it’ll be at least 5 years away. eMedicine also has its… Read more »
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