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Discussion Thread 🌷 Wednesday 17 December 2025 (aussie.zone)

submitted 2 days ago by YarraByte@aussie.zone to c/melbourne@aussie.zone

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[–] SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 7 points 2 days ago

I agree that people seem to mostly stick to their area - my boss rarely ventures outside of 5km from home. I've had a friend who wouldn't cross the Yarra to see me, even when I lived in Southbank. Once I had a bunch of IRL PokemonGo friends while living in the South East and we'd all hang out, have dinners, visit each other, but as soon as I moved towards the city that stopped unless I went to visit them.

Now I live in a Southern suburb that no one's heard of.

I have no issues with going to the other side of the city to go to a market or shop I want to visit. I grew up in Country Victoria so have no qualms driving an hour+ to get somewhere - I used to drive from my hometown to Shepperton because they had a Cold Rock and a JB Hi Fi before my town.