Amen to cat swinging space......WarrenH wrote:A non-big-city-life, for those who can cope with having the space to swing two cats, is most pleasant.
Great pics Warren!
Postby open roader » Sun Aug 03, 2014 10:30 pm
Amen to cat swinging space......WarrenH wrote:A non-big-city-life, for those who can cope with having the space to swing two cats, is most pleasant.
Postby silentC » Mon Aug 04, 2014 8:57 am
Very similar here, although the dairy farms are still there, just not as many (Bega Cheese country). Our first phone here was one of those black Bakelite ones. You picked up the handset, turned the little handle on the front a couple of times and a voice (always female) would answer. You'd say the number you wanted and they put you through. My parents still have the same 3-digit number, they just kept adding prefixes to it.ldrcycles wrote:Hell when my parents first took up farming out here in the 70s they still had a manual telephone exchange in town. Mind you there were also about 50 dairy farms in the district, and now there are none .
Postby ldrcycles » Mon Aug 04, 2014 2:28 pm
open roader wrote:Amen to cat swinging space......WarrenH wrote:A non-big-city-life, for those who can cope with having the space to swing two cats, is most pleasant.
Postby tcdev » Mon Aug 04, 2014 4:43 pm
Never heard it told like that - very sound advice - thank you!silentbutdeadly wrote:Moving to a new place is never straightforward and here in the Great Nowhere even more so but the biggest mistake that many newbies make is thinking that the new life will come to them the way they are rather than realising that the new life requires them to actually be something different to what they were and get out there and grab what is on offer. City folk don't have much in common with country folk...but if the city folk don't live in the city any more then what are they? They can't have it both ways...
Postby tcdev » Mon Aug 04, 2014 5:03 pm
I freely admit that it is slightly pretentious. But I'd also say that my wife feels a bit stronger about this particular point than I do. Her views of the world have slowly been changing over the years; between you & I motherhood was a real eye-opener for her for example. Let's just say that she has a new-found respect for mothers that she was perhaps lacking a few years ago! Still, she's not there yet... She also covets her privacy, and I suspect that 'country hospitality', however innocent and well-intentioned, won't sit comfortably with her for a while at least.silentC wrote:Regarding 'compatibility' of country people, I must say I find that an odd and, dare I say it, slightly pretentious point of view. Having spent as much time in Sydney as I have, there are as many bogans there as anywhere else. I suppose it depends on where you go, but definitely where I live, we are every bit as cosmopolitan as city people, without the neuroses
Postby tcdev » Mon Aug 04, 2014 5:12 pm
I don't think we've discounted that at all; truth-be-told it's probably more likely than a small country town, especially since we're probably looking at somewhere on the coast.barefoot wrote:Don't skim over the middle option, between small town country living and big capital cities. A lot can be said for living in a smaller city.
Postby silentbutdeadly » Tue Aug 05, 2014 10:45 am
It can...though some times it ain't fast enough. Back in 2000, I moved from Avalon on Sydney's northern beaches (and an hour each way commute) to Bourke in far western NSW...let's just say that the change of pace was precipitous and the adaptation time rather short...but my following five years there were great fun.tcdev wrote: I do know that it takes some getting used to the change of pace.
Postby silentC » Tue Aug 05, 2014 2:26 pm
Being a tourist town, where I live is not really your stereotypical country town. The 'out of towners' probably outnumber the locals these days. It has a history of people coming in from the big smoke and doing most of the moving and shaking and that dates back more than 100 yearsShe also covets her privacy, and I suspect that 'country hospitality', however innocent and well-intentioned, won't sit comfortably with her for a while at least.
Postby martinjs » Fri Sep 05, 2014 12:00 pm
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