[UA] America by Prime Time (was Greetings)

[Bailey Watts]

From: "Patrick O'Duffy" <redfern at thehub.com.au>
>Brisbane, where I live, is one of the largest cities in the world (in terms
>of area), rivalling Mexico City - 110 km long by 60 km wide. You start in
>Ipswich and head for Caboolture, damn stright it'll take you more than 1
>hour and 20 minutes.
>
>(If anything, Brisbane will be _bigger_ soon, since it's probably going to
>merge with the nearby city of the Gold Coast within the next 20 years.)

Damn, I thought my home of KC was big (though it is something like three 
cities officially since it crosses state and county lines) but that is just 
mindblowing.

>(Incidentally, we may use 'suburb' in a different way than Americans. To
>use, a suburb is just a division of the city; I live less than 20 minutes
>walk from the city centre, but we still call this area 'the suburbs'.)

As a curiosity, do you have what Americans call "gated communities" over in 
Oz?  I've seen them for a decent portion of my life, but I still think 
they're just weird.  There's gotta be something highly UAble about them, but 
I've never managed to actually get into one so I couldn't write a sourcebook 
on one or anything like that.
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