This is Sydney, Melbourne
Having grown up in Sydney, there is the Sydney that brochures want you to know and there is the Sydney one misses. The harbour, the bridge, the Opera House seem to transfix and when one mentions to friends from Melbourne visiting Sydney to — hire a car, or catch a bus to Palm Beach or Pittwater, — pardon — typically follows a glazed over expression that says — nice idea that seems too far away.
Pictured is too far away (an hour and 1/2 from the city centre), a weekend at Currawong and a view of Pittwater from friend and photographer Karl Schwerdtfeger. While one was chasing children at Daydreamers play centre in Windsor, Melbourne, Karl finishes a homemade fruit salad for breakfast with a stroll. While one took his children to a part of Sydney that is more like paradise, the other shuffles around a ratty play centre with average expensive coffee.
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Don’t get homesick big guy.
You have forgotten about the traffic, the leagues clubs, the lack of good bars, the bad shop owners, people who don’t give a flying about books or cinema or art, a pitifully mean and dumb state government, expensive housing, toll roads, the vast rolling suburbia, why sure there are good bits - nature beach event city is fine - but the urban bit where we all live needs a huge amount of help. Civic appreciation and civility isn’t something that we have a lot of in these 2000 postcodes.