One more boring night in Adelaide

[Sojourner]

Funny how not much has changed since 1984!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf2nU_KUEB0

[Dogwatcher]

Thursday night.

Don't we need some changes in this town?

[Booney]

Thursday night.

Don't we need some changes in this town?

...or do we?

My boss ( who arrived from the UK 6 years ago and lived in Melbourne for the first 4 years ) has asked me about "Little old Adelaide" quite often. He tells of our "World" status, meaning our Tour Down Under,the GP ( when we had it ) our wines,our Arts / Fringe Festivals, our beaches ( mainly Pt Lincoln and the sharks ) are known all over the world.Especially the wines and Tour.

He would love to see Adelaide a more vibrant city, more shopping hours where the city is abuzz with activity,a Southbank style plaza that Melbourne boasts along The Torrens. He often comments that while people call it "Little old Adelaide" that is all it will ever be and I pose the question back that perhaps that is just what the people of Adelaide want?

For me it makes the visits to Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane ( not Sydney, yuck ) even more enjoyable.

[Dogwatcher]

The line is from the song mate

Another couple are "Doesn't Ernie Sigley bring ya down" and "Don't you think Mike Willisee's a clown".

I have the album at home (on cassete) and it's been one of my favourites since I was about 12.

[Booney]

I didn't listen to the song and not being that old I thought you were posing a question.

[Dogwatcher]

oi!

[mighty_tiger_79]

well there are plans that the casino will move to the torrens and become a similar set up to the crown in melbourne.

given the way people react to change maybe we dont want adelaide to become a vibrant buzzing city.

and as Booney it makes those interstate trips even more enjoyable

[fisho mcspaz]

I just want all those idiots in the paper (can never remember any of their names, but most of them are big businesspeople) to shut up about how boring Adelaide is and how it needs this and that done to it. All that ever happens is they get an architect to draw a plan of something and then the council vetoes it, so they start whinging again.

I think that Adelaide needs three things to make it better:

AFL at Adelaide Oval
An iconic building (if only to stop people from whinging and splashing their architect plans all over the Advertiser)
A rollercoaster

Oh yeah, and it needs a drag strip. Badly.

[Psyber]

I returned to Adelaide from Melbourne because it is easy to get around in and pleasant, and doesn't try to be flashy.
I think the plan to create "Riverside" and move all the flashy stuff there will improve the rest of the CBD no end!

[Pseudo]

The only thing I dislike about Adelaide is the disturbingly large number of people here who like to whinge about Adelaide.

I for one wish that the naysayers who decry Adelaide as boring, regressive, slow, or any other of several negative epithets, would f*** the hell off to Sydney/Melbourne and STFU.

[CK]

The only thing I dislike about Adelaide is the disturbingly large number of people here who like to whinge about Adelaide.

I for one wish that the naysayers who decry Adelaide as boring, regressive, slow, or any other of several negative epithets, would f*** the hell off to Sydney/Melbourne and STFU.

Here, here...

I can't think of anywhere I'd rather live than Adelaide. I love the place to the core. Sure, there are times it can feel like a big country town where everybody knows each other and its Two Degrees of Separation, but to be able to hit the beach less than 20 min from the CBD, along with the Adelaide Hills; to be able to buy a home within 30 mins of the city for the prices that we can; to have the vibrance that the Fringe, the Festival, the Clipsal, the Tour Down Under and all of our other world class events brings; to have all the things that make us Adelaide like Balfours, Farmers Union Iced Coffee and any other number of uniquely Adelaide things - why would anyone WANT to live anywhere else?? The only reason I would leave, is if I was forced to through work, and I'd hate having to leave deep in the heart.

[Rik E Boy]

One more boring Redgum song more like.

regards,

REB

[85 WAS A GOOD YEAR]

Well all I can say is this Thursday Night (7th January 2010) @ Adel Oval was a bloody beauty!

[Barto]

The only thing I dislike about Adelaide is the disturbingly large number of people here who like to whinge about Adelaide.

This is the thing, no one is holding a gun to your head to stay if you dont like it.

[Farmy]

And in truth anyone who has actually traveled anywhere will tell you that Adelaide isn't that worse off compared to other cities all over the world, in some ways its much better.

For instance me, I will tell you that. Theres different cultures, languages and unique ancient buildings but when it comes down to modern metropolitan areas, pretty much every city in the world is the same in most aspects, its just a matter of the level of corruption, size and population.

[Felch]

The reason i love Adelaide is because it is NOT Melbourne, Sydney, Perth or Brisbane. Not that i hate those places, quite the opposite really. But i love living here, and extremely proud to say im a South Aussie !

[Dutchy]

The only thing I dislike about Adelaide is the disturbingly large number of people here who like to whinge about Adelaide.

I for one wish that the naysayers who decry Adelaide as boring, regressive, slow, or any other of several negative epithets, would f*** the hell off to Sydney/Melbourne and STFU.

very well put, people also dont realise that Adelaide isnt a "little" city put Adelaide in the US and it would be the 10th biggest city in the country...

Im not sure Adelaide is boring anyway, while we dont have the one big attraction for people in the city we have many smaller entertainment precincts like The Parade, Glenelg, Henley, Nth Adelaide, Rundle Street, Gouger Street, King William Rd etc

[A Mum]

The reason i love Adelaide is because it is NOT Melbourne, Sydney, Perth or Brisbane. Not that i hate those places, quite the opposite really. But i love living here, and extremely proud to say im a South Aussie !

Ditto !

[Sploosh]

very well put, people also dont realise that Adelaide isnt a "little" city put Adelaide in the US and it would be the 10th biggest city in the country...

That is quite an incredible fact. I had no idea.

[redandblack]

very well put, people also dont realise that Adelaide isnt a "little" city put Adelaide in the US and it would be the 10th biggest city in the country...

That is quite an incredible fact. I had no idea.

I've mentioned much the same before. Why call Adelaide a 'big country town'. It has a population of over a million and stretches north to south roughly between 50 and 80 kms?

I've travelled a fair bit and there is no way Adelaide is not a large city, by Western world standards.

I recently drove some people I met in Finland last year around Adelaide. That makes you proud of the place, especially when you also take them on a trip down the Fleurieu, lunch at the Whalers' Inn, then back through Willunga and Mclaren Vale.

Having said that, I'd still like to see some progress, but it stacks up nicely against anywhere else in the world.