Starbucks in Sydney
I’ve often noticed that you can get a good handle on the difference in mentality between Melbourne and Sydney by checking the “Most viewed articles” box on www.theage.com.au, and comparing the most read articles in the SMH and the Age. Since I first observed this, they’ve kindly added the brisbanetimes and WAtoday to this box, allowing my daily Zeitgeist to cover most of Australia’s population.
Of course, anything involving sex, celebrities and crime scores well on all papers. But most days, you can see a pattern where Sydney readers care more about sensationalist superficial stuff than Melbourne readers, and Brisbane readers invariably love reading about sex. (The WAtoday was added too recently for me to form accurate prejudices.) But today’s excerpt was particularly revealing:
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