Do you strictly interpret ‘Brisbane’ as the BCC area, or will you tell people you live ‘in Brisbane’ when you’re just shy shy of Caloundra, Ipswich, or Toowoomba? I will always call Redcliffe, ‘Brisbane’, even though it was established long before Brisbane, but exclude Ipswich, but I don’t have any good reason for either.

Journos use ‘near Brisbane’ for up to 200km from King George Square, and ‘events in Brisbane’ frequently have listings for the Gold Coast.

Is Brisbane just a state of mind? :)

    • lordriffington
      4·
      1 year ago

      I feel like that would just have resulted in complaints from people who don’t live in Brisbane about all the Brisbane-related content. That said, there’s so little posted here so far that maybe it would have been okay, at least for a while. There’s no reason we can’t have state communities as well though.

    • macrocephalic@lemmy.fmhy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      Why? I live closer to Sydney than Townsville. I live closer to Melbourne than Cairns. While those places are still in my state they may as well not be.