Perth does tend to feel like the "red headed green eyed child" of the states. It's mostly just a distance thing.
We are 2 - 3 hours behind. This doesn't sound so bad but so many bureaucratic things operate exclusively out of the east and then don't even bother hiring one person to man the phones to cover the west. I get really shitted off if I ring up at 3:30 on a week day to only be told "Our offices are currently closed. Please ring back, Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm."
This does tend to produce a feeling of inferiority in us Sandgropers.
The distance thing also gets hammered home in Fandom when we get asked why we don't attend so many cons. "Cos the nearest city is 3 days by car if you REALLY fang it" doesn't seem to be the obvious answer.
Mind you the upside of this is Perth now has 3 regular cons and a 4th semi regularly. (Waicon, Swancon, Ghengiscon and Borderlands/Wasteland/Fandomedia/Nights Egde)
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Perth does tend to feel like the "red headed green eyed child" of the states. It's mostly just a distance thing.
We are 2 - 3 hours behind. This doesn't sound so bad but so many bureaucratic things operate exclusively out of the east and then don't even bother hiring one person to man the phones to cover the west. I get really shitted off if I ring up at 3:30 on a week day to only be told "Our offices are currently closed. Please ring back, Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm."
This does tend to produce a feeling of inferiority in us Sandgropers.
The distance thing also gets hammered home in Fandom when we get asked why we don't attend so many cons. "Cos the nearest city is 3 days by car if you REALLY fang it" doesn't seem to be the obvious answer.
Mind you the upside of this is Perth now has 3 regular cons and a 4th semi regularly. (Waicon, Swancon, Ghengiscon and Borderlands/Wasteland/Fandomedia/Nights Egde)