Ha!
I worked in Brisbane for a year, when someone asked me to describe what I thought about QLD'ers, my response was "Lovely people, just seem a little slow and too laid back for my liking"
But, afterall, beauty is in the eye of the beholder!
Sounds somewhat about right
I think many people from south would say we're laid back - maybe too much for liking.
We're definitely not a SYD or MEL which is bustling all hours of the day. In fact, someone said ages ago that BNE is more like a student town due to our massive student population (mainly international tertiary students).
Some say that BNE is on the alternative edge as well, with new "hip" places like in Fortitude Valley, West End and so on with a different cultural spin to the equivalent kinds of establishments in MEL and SYD (the latter if there are any).
Whatever you say about BNE, we're definitely viewed as not quite the eastern seaboarders that at least 8 million people would have you believe (i.e. in the south). Compared to the south, especially those from SYD, maybe we're not going fast enough.
But hey, we're probably a better place still to live than some other freak places. *cough* Canberra *cough*
:mrgreen: *runs*
Mind you, I was born and bred here and in the back of my mind I'm yearning for a sea change....
Also, I believe QLDers must be one of the few Australians - or at least eastern seaboarders - that think it's possible to deliciously combine fruit and seafood or meat in a dish. Watching the cooking shows, every time a QLDer puts fruit on a warm dish of seafood or meat, they get slammed.
