DAY 106 - ADELAIDE SA

ADELAIDE SA

DAY 106


If I were to write an anthem for Adelaide it would be called “The City of Abundance”.

I like it because it is abundant in a non-excessive kind of way.

My opinion of many big cities is of over-abundance and excess and general decay but this is not the feeling I have about Adelaide.

It is a city on the rise, if anything.

It could establish itself as a world-class venue more comfortable in its own skin than many of its counterparts, either here or internationally.

I would like to visit again in maybe 10 years and observe the changes in this time.

Since it is 17 years since my last visit here, the changes are more significant in that time than maybe the next 17, but I see it as a place than can basically write its own history rather than be governed by outside influences or external expectations.

I am aware that it has issues with public transportation and whilst this may seem like small fry now, it is a problem that Adelaide should address or else it may be more than just a problem before long.

Comparing one place with another is not something I find palatable at all.

Like comparing wine with beer or fish with chicken there is not much to be gained.

The learning is to experience the place and its people and the gauge by which many places are judged in these post-post-modern times is a strange measure known as “liveability”.

At least Adelaide possesses enough of what registers as “liveable” to expand its reach without completely suffocating it into an awaiting grave.

This is just my opinion but in seeing what has become of Sydney, I would not be one to recommend it as a blueprint.

Sydney is one of the more visionless venues of the world and it is saved only (again in my opinion) by a mostly favourable and blessed natural environment, for which every effort has been made to generally fuck it up.

No more of this for now however.

The plan is to enjoy the city of Adelaide until returning to the city of Sydney in just a few weeks for attendance to finances and other logistical matters.

Sydney is at least a favourable venue from which to approach these basic necessities.