Also, speaking as someone who grew up in a regional centre but travelled to Melbourne quite often from about 15, sometimes it feels like you actually live there, even if you need to take an hour and a half train ride to get there. Not unlike living in someplace like Hallam, which is a suburb of Melbourne but is just as great a distance from the CBD as Ballarat.
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Date: 2004-04-05 08:04 pm (UTC)Also, speaking as someone who grew up in a regional centre but travelled to Melbourne quite often from about 15, sometimes it feels like you actually live there, even if you need to take an hour and a half train ride to get there. Not unlike living in someplace like Hallam, which is a suburb of Melbourne but is just as great a distance from the CBD as Ballarat.