M59
Sydney as a location
August 16 2024
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
4 months ago
Nah
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
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
4 months ago
Wouldn’t you travel for a bit of fun if the vibe was right?
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’.
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