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It's kind of telling that Melburnians never miss a chance to slag Sydney, while Sydneysiders are too busy surfing at their 200+ beaches to worry about a country town that tries to make up for its lack of attractions or industry with coffee and an inferiority complex... :P

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> Sydneysiders are too busy surfing at their 200+ beaches

All of them? All the time? I guess that explains their puzzling lack of cultural output. Thanks! :P

People of Sydney are too busy stuck in traffic all day to write snarky comments on HN while people of Melbourne are free to shitpost away from the comfort of the trams.

so much so that to avoid the controversy, the gov't chose to just build out a city in the middle between sydney and melbourne and use that as a capital city rather than settle once and for all which is better...

Canada is the same. They built Ottawa in the middle of nowhere, halfway between Toronto and Montreal.

  They built Ottawa in the middle of nowhere

And on the fringe of nowhere, they built their hockey rink.

In the US state capitals aren’t in the major city in the state, with some exceptions (Indianapolis comes to mind).

> worry about a country town

Watch out, that country town is about to be Australia's biggest city by population...

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/booming-melbourne-to...

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