I remember a while ago we for some reason were discussing who lives in the city and who is out rural, I cant remember for the life of me why we were, but I was really interested in it, I lvoe hearing about different places.
So I was thinking, I want to hear all about the different places everyone lives, obviously you dont have to give out huge details like the name of the place or whatever, but id love to hear about what makes it unique and such.
As im making the thread, i'll go first (and yes, I raided google images, mwahaha)
I live in a little semi-rural town in Victoria, Australia called Christmas Hills. We supply the surrounding towns with water from Sugarloaf Reservoir. Yes, Sugarloaf Reservoir is in Christmas Hills, but unfortunately no, its no where as magical as it sounds.
Our town has a primary school (with 23 students between the ages of 5-12), a fire shed, a tennis court (a, as in one, but we do love it) and a town hall where we have town meetings. Then we have things like a general store and a bakery, but for most of our food we have to go to farmers markets in surrounding areas or take a half hour drive down to Warrandyte for the closest supermarket. We also have no public transport. People either drive or ride horses.
We have a hilly area where people race morotbikes called Rob Roy.
This is Sugarloaf Reservoir, its also a HUGE reminder of how bad the drought is at the moment. Were currently in stage 4 water restrictions, we ahve an allocated amount of water to use each day, and if we continually go over that amount, your water gets turned off for a week. The government gave us all shower times so we can make sure we dont shoer for over 2mins, and you can only water your garden with tank or grey water, using a hose is now a crime.
A neighbouring town, St Andrews, holds the St Andrews market every saturday, this is our equivalent of a mall, as we dont have one. They sell everything, clothing, soaps, jewlery, toys. Most is either hand made or second hand, but if youre willing to live out here then you dont really care about that kind of stuff. They also have alot of great vegetarian food, buskers and a hairdressing tent.
Another neighbouring town, Kangaroo Ground (where Bek goes to school) is the only post office in Australia which also doubles as a winery.
Unfortunately, we live in a high fire risk area, and many summers have seen people lose their homes here, the worst being last year.
So thats my little town.
So I was thinking, I want to hear all about the different places everyone lives, obviously you dont have to give out huge details like the name of the place or whatever, but id love to hear about what makes it unique and such.
As im making the thread, i'll go first (and yes, I raided google images, mwahaha)
I live in a little semi-rural town in Victoria, Australia called Christmas Hills. We supply the surrounding towns with water from Sugarloaf Reservoir. Yes, Sugarloaf Reservoir is in Christmas Hills, but unfortunately no, its no where as magical as it sounds.
Our town has a primary school (with 23 students between the ages of 5-12), a fire shed, a tennis court (a, as in one, but we do love it) and a town hall where we have town meetings. Then we have things like a general store and a bakery, but for most of our food we have to go to farmers markets in surrounding areas or take a half hour drive down to Warrandyte for the closest supermarket. We also have no public transport. People either drive or ride horses.
We have a hilly area where people race morotbikes called Rob Roy.
This is Sugarloaf Reservoir, its also a HUGE reminder of how bad the drought is at the moment. Were currently in stage 4 water restrictions, we ahve an allocated amount of water to use each day, and if we continually go over that amount, your water gets turned off for a week. The government gave us all shower times so we can make sure we dont shoer for over 2mins, and you can only water your garden with tank or grey water, using a hose is now a crime.
A neighbouring town, St Andrews, holds the St Andrews market every saturday, this is our equivalent of a mall, as we dont have one. They sell everything, clothing, soaps, jewlery, toys. Most is either hand made or second hand, but if youre willing to live out here then you dont really care about that kind of stuff. They also have alot of great vegetarian food, buskers and a hairdressing tent.
Another neighbouring town, Kangaroo Ground (where Bek goes to school) is the only post office in Australia which also doubles as a winery.
Unfortunately, we live in a high fire risk area, and many summers have seen people lose their homes here, the worst being last year.
So thats my little town.
