How widely do you define Brisbane when you're talking to people who live outside the SEQ region?

Do you strictly interpret 'Brisbane' as the BCC area, or will you tell people you live 'in Brisbane' when you're just shy shy of Caloundra, Ipswich, or Toowoomba? I will always call Redcliffe, 'Brisbane', even though it was established long before Brisbane, but exclude Ipswich, but I don't have any good reason for either.

Journos use 'near Brisbane' for up to 200km from King George Square, and 'events in Brisbane' frequently have listings for the Gold Coast.

Is Brisbane just a state of mind? :)

Griffchang,
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Bribin is biggest city in the world made up of many councils smaller, so BCC limits because it so huge

Other city so ugly we just recoil away from them

Zagorath,
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I use the same 5 LGAs that our politicians seemed to be using when talking about COVID rules. BCC, MBRC, Logan, Ipswich, and Redlands.

cccc,

BCC, Moreton Bay, Pine Rivers, Ipswich and most of Logan fit my definition.

Definitely not the coasts.

womensweekly,

Anything outside postcode 4000 isn't Brisbane...

GloomyBagel,
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anything north of Deception Bay, west of The Gap, south of the Logan River isn’t Brisbane to me.

GloomyBagel,
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also it depends, if someone asks “where are you from?” and you’re from Narangba or Caboolture, it’s easiest to just say Brisbane.

24Vindustrialdildo,

BCC area, but within that I live in FNB

anathema_device,
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@24Vindustrialdildo Far North Brisbane? Is that, like, Caboolture? :)

billstickers, (edited )

@24Vindustrialdildo @ anathema_device If he only counts BCC I fear he thinks Aspley is FNB

macrocephalic,

I remember when it was...

Treevan,
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It feels like Queensland is Brisbane sometimes.

I said earlier that instead of City communities, it should have started as State communities initially. More inclusive that way.

lordriffington,

I feel like that would just have resulted in complaints from people who don’t live in Brisbane about all the Brisbane-related content. That said, there’s so little posted here so far that maybe it would have been okay, at least for a while. There’s no reason we can’t have state communities as well though.

Treevan,
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Definitely. In my mind, and this was always a hypothetical, it would have started broad then continually split until you hit the point that the community couldn’t self-sustain.

I asked for “environment” to be setup as a catchall for everything “outside”; from plants, animals, climate, culture, pollution, etc. On reddit, plants, animals, gardening, permaculture, birds, were completely separate subreddits which, if lemmy gains popularity, would likely happen again. As it is, memes outnumbers environment by orders of magnitude so memes will split well before it does eg. Straya and memes are concurrent communities already.

macrocephalic,

Why? I live closer to Sydney than Townsville. I live closer to Melbourne than Cairns. While those places are still in my state they may as well not be.

Treevan,
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Ha, and this is why people from FNQ dislike you and SE QLD.

They function under our state system, they have the same state politicans as us, we vote for the same people at the same election, we pool our tax money together and it is distributed across the whole state.

That’s why we include them. Don’t you care what someone from FNQ is doing to the Great Barrier Reef? Surely you have some feelings about it as one example?

macrocephalic,

Are you suggesting that people from Sydney or Melbourne don’t care about what someone from FNQ is doing to the GBR?

Realistically I have more in common with a resident of Sydney than Cairns.

Treevan,
@Treevan@aussie.zone avatar

No, of course not, but we use the same state political system with the same funding. You are forced to have something in common.

macrocephalic,

This is true, and I can understand why some in NQ would rather the state be split.

Treevan,
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I think it’s a good idea. The differences between SE QLD and FNQ are too great.

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