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[tasadam]

Looking at Google maps. Found a little place near London. Scrolled down a bit, and Whoa that place is huge!
So I got to thinking, how big is it?
Here's some comparisons, roughly the same scale.
I am so glad I live where I do.

London

New York

Sydney

Melbourne

Hobart

Devonport

[flyfisher]

Yeah, real backwoodsy stuff, even Hobart is tiny in comparison, Fantastic.
Doesn't take us long to go bush in Tassie.Wouldn't live anywhere else for quids.

FF

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The Wellington Range sticks out to me, the swathe of uninterrupted green.

Today was magic in the South, but strapped to computer

[Nick S]

Interesting comparison, note all the highways crossing through the big cities. still it must take a while to get across town.
I could never live in the sprawl, maybe on the edges, as long as you could get away to the bush within a short drive. ( like anywhere in Tassie)

[tasadam]

When I lived in Sydney, I spent a short time at Ingleburn. One day it was wet and there were a number of accidents, it took me over 2 and a half hours to drive to work at St Leonards. I left for work at 6:30 am and was late.

[north-north-west]

The Wellington Range sticks out to me, the swathe of uninterrupted green.

Yeah. Used to be great when the Parks office was at Sandy Bay. We'd drive up Wellington for lunch. Brilliant.

[Taurë-rana]

I used to go up the mountain for lunch occasionally when I was at Hobart Matric - that is one thing I really miss living on the NW Coast, I don't have a mountain to get lost on, 20 minutes drive away. I drove out of Hobart in rush hour traffic recently though, and I don't miss that!

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I used to go up the mountain for lunch occasionally when I was at Hobart Matric - that is one thing I really miss living on the NW Coast, I don't have a mountain to get lost on, 20 minutes drive away. I drove out of Hobart in rush hour traffic recently though, and I don't miss that!

There is a down side, when I'm trapped in front of the computer for hours on end, the reflection on the screen is of that wonderful lump of rock across the river.
When the weather is clear it acts like a Siren(dangerously alluring ) - and man is it hard to concentrate
We have had some beautiful days in the South recently, and I have been so busy - you almost want to keep the curtains closed

Two more weeks of hard graft and the calender is clearing, along with the weather hopefully

Sorry DA but rush hour traffic Hobart gets about 15mins a day, and that's a bad day Always cracks me up when fully fledged Taswegians complain about traffic

[tas-man]

<SNIP> Sorry DA but rush hour traffic Hobart gets about 15mins a day, and that's a bad day Always cracks me up when fully fledged Taswegians complain about traffic

In Launceston. its the 9am traffic entering the city from the West Tamar highway, and the complaints about having to wait for the second change of lights