CT sells out

Growling Ferret – I like your comment.

What else I don’t like about Sydney:
-driving in narrow lanes
-taking an hour to get from here to there
-one way streets and no right turns

However, having quite a lot of family living there, I would argue that it’s not completely full of stuck up gits etc.

Sydney – a nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live there.

Bananas are yellow

Ferret, it’s obviously a conspiracy to rid Sydney of its undesirable elements. Why else pick Campbelltown?

Also, roccon, I like the cut of your jib. But keep in mind, Goulburn and Yass don’t want the Cambo ferals either.

What do I like about Canberra.

1. I can’t see the air I breathe.
2. Peak half hour
3. Ease of travel
4. 4 seasons
5. It takes less time to get to the beach than it would if I lived in the Greater West of Sydney.
6. I feel safe

What do I like about Sydney?
1. Hume Highway heading south.

What don’t I like about Canberra
1. Not that close to a beach
2. Peak half hour now exists
3. Canberra being the generic term for Federal Parliament

What I don’t like about Sydney
1. Air quality
2. Congestion
3. Cost of living
4. The fact is full of stuck up gits who deserve the pollution/cost of living/gun crime/attitude they get…

Can someone let me know why Canberra needs to artificially boost population anyway???

theboo – there is no credibility in commercial stations current affairs programs anyway…. the less people that watch that crap that come here the better… (im back in canberra for the third time after living interstate…)

nsw politics is all about sydney. infrastructure – sydney.
housing – sydney.
unemployment – sydney.

if i was a nsw voter, i’d be unimpressed.

im opposed to the sydney campaign as i like canberra being more civilised and less vulgar than sydney.

Roccon
Well said. Canberra has copped way more than it’s fair share of shit from people of influence in the states, Federal Govt and the media. The worst example I can recall was back in the early 90s when 60 Minutes did a report on Canberra. I’ll never forget Richard Carleton driving down Mugga Way telling his audience that “This is the way Canberrans live, in a typical Canberra Suburb”. It was such a load of horse shit. Carleton is a pompous ass, and has been pissing me off for a long time. It was unforgiveable. It gave people a bad impression of Canberra, and was totally unnecessary.
This is a city which is seriously on the move, expanding rapidly with many opportunities and a great lifestyle.
LIke many Canberrans, in the 90s I did the whole move to Sydney thing, thinking it would be a more exciting place with an awesome lifestyle. I didn’t even last a year before moving back, and will always remember the relief I felt driving back over the hill and seeing the tower on Black Mtn.

Hahahaha, lol, rotfl…

There is no NSW outside Sydney, it’s a barren wasteland populated by nomadic roadgangs and Mad Max.

Well, that’s the Sydney viewpoint anyway.

That would make the ACT a kind of ‘Thunderdome’, although we call our diplay of vehicular might ‘Summernats’ instead of ‘The Death Rink’.

Mr Iemma,

Canberra’s labour shortage: Instead of defending Sydney and knocking down Canberra in the press, why not promote Queanbeyan, Yass, Goulburn and Cooma and surrounding areas.

Get people moving to these areas and away from Sydney and the coastal areas which have population pressures. There is plenty of work in the ACT and the local region. I think the NSW Govt. have forgotten there is a large part of NSW down here that receives little infrastructure investment or promotion.

I find it shameful and worrying that we are treated as second-class citizens in this part of NSW. Roads are poor, communications are poor. The hospitals are understaffed and underfunded. Cooma hospital has great facilities but no one uses them…what’s the point. The NSW Govt. shhould take responsibility for this part of NSW and treat its people with respect.

The last thing I want is for Canberra to become more like Sydney. Not because I fear change, but because I fear congestion, pollution, violence and everything else associated with the greater western portion of Sydney.