Sydney @aussie.zone AJ Sadauskas @aus.social 2y ago

Open question for @sydney and #Sydney on Mastodon:

If the suburbs around Chatswood and Crows Nest are on the Lower North Shore, and the area around Hornsby is the Upper North Shore, then what's Ryde?

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@ajsadauskas @sydney if the story is about house prices or cost of living: Sydney’s north. If the story is about gangs, drugs, shootings, or unemployment: Sydney’s South West. Everywhere can be Sydney’s South West if you truely believe.
Anything west of the Lane Cove River / Lane Cove National Park is not the North Shore

I've seen Ryde called the North West but it's not that far north or west
Huge.
- Ryde, North Ryde, West Ryde, East Ryde. They got lazy naming suburbs, and wtf happened to South Ryde?
  
  On Google Maps, if you search South Ryde it will display an area with a border south of North Ryde. I don't know the area that well and have no idea if that's what the locals consider to be South Ryde. I've always thought of Ryde as just it's own thing.
@ajsadauskas @sydney It depends who you ask.
- @BenAveling @sydney Lol great maps. I especially like the descriptions of Hornsby as being either "Not Sydney" or the North Shore's "Buffer zone".
  
  My only quibble is with the North Shore map showing anything on the south side of the harbour.
  
  True story: I used to work for a company that had its offices in St Leonards because the boss hated crossing the bridge.
  
  @ajsadauskas @sydney Now I'm trying to remember the real name of 'checkpoint charlie'... <<<web searching...>>> Gladesville Bridge.
  
  @ajsadauskas @BenAveling @sydney Reminded me of that YouTube show, Avalon Now, where the Northern Beaches types express horror at having to cross the bridge. “The Spit Bridge?” “No, the Narrabeen Bridge.” Wonderfully parochial, Sydney.

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