How did Australia's suburbs become what they are today?
Nightlife

How did Australia's suburbs become what they are today?

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 23, 202624 min
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Nightlife ponders why some suburbs are huge compared to others, why some disappear and why some places we think of as suburbs, aren't suburbs at all.

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🎵 And the suburbs are alone to drive and to tell me we'll never survive 🎵 Grabbing mother's keys we're leaving Now that is Arcade Fire and their song The Suburbs. Do you live in a suburb? Well the odds are very very good that you do

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Because while we're spread all over this wide brown land, demographically we're concentrated in some very specific areas which means most of us are living the suburban life. Even so, we like to think that our suburb is that little bit different to the one next door, ideally not just a bland plot of land in which some people live.

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But how true is that? How do suburbs form and change over time? Why are some enormous and some are just a couple of streets? If you live in a smaller one, you might have spent your whole life explaining that, oh yeah, it's near this big suburb.

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