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It feels like clutching at straws for something to celebrate about the city. The truth is the city of Melbourne itself is nothing remarkable.
It's all the things just outside it that are nicer ie Dandenong Kinglake national park Wilson's prom great ocean road etc.
I haven't been overseas as much as I'd like, but I've lived in Melbourne most of my life.
Sometimes it feels like it's basically just a much larger version of a small town. Maybe all of Australia is kind of like that.
Honestly I'm inclined to agree. I liken Australia cities to subway sandwiches. At their core they are basically the same with only toppings to differentiate them slightly.
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Most every place has its charms. Sometimes it takes a visitor to show you the wonder in something that to you has become normal or mundane.
It’s the little things that make a place special to me. Things that aren’t famous, that you won’t see photos and expos about.
Like walking down a street in Saigon and seeing a tiny little shrine just minding its own business on a street corner. Quirky and not something you hop on a plane for.
The closest thing we have to a shrine is a Woolworths or a coles, where we regularly go to give offerings to our CEO gods.
A minority sect is the Aldi crowd.