Sydney as a location

August 16 2024

I am raising this as a bit of fun …

Should ‘Sydney’ (and other capital cities) be allowed as a location for a profile? Or should it be 'Sydney CBD’ and suburbs.

The argument for removing ’Sydney’ as a location is its sheer size. So if you connect with a Sydneysider you may actually be hours away from each other.

‘Sydney’ extends about 80 km from the ocean in the east to the Blue Mountains in the west, and about 80 km from the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and the Hawkesbury River in the north and north-west, to the Royal National Park and Macarthur in the south and south-west. Greater Sydney consists of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas. The estimated population is about 5.5million which is about 66% of the state's population. (source: wikipedia)

Similarly people in regional areas often put a large regional hub as their location. e.g. Dubbo or Wagga used for people who live in that region. I do understand that; because if they live in a small country town it might ‘out’ them.

Just chucking this out there as sometimes when I travel I look up possible local profiles and so many in capital cities use the city name.

Oh and there is also the thing where you might put, say, Belmont in south Newcastle and people on the other side of the lake are tagged as close by when they are an hour's drive away.

Comments

  • FeistyFatty

    FeistyFatty

    4 months ago

    Nah

  • Sawadee

    Sawadee

    4 months ago

    If youre keen' that type of distance isnt that important.. If you live in Sydney and the potential lives in QLD .... different story...

  • nightingale8

    nightingale8

    4 months ago

    lol! Listing yourself as located in “Sydney” is basically as anonymous as you can get. Hardly useful for snobs like me in the east who find areas of the inner west a slog just because of the traffic (and terrible roads!)

  • cheekycouple5853

    cheekycouple5853

    4 months ago

    Wouldn’t you travel for a bit of fun if the vibe was right?

  • Opalrose

    Opalrose

    4 months ago

    No. Three times now I’ve had someone try to nail down my address based on my suburb. One was successful.
    Now it’s ’Perth’.