Thank you for another enjoyable walking video🥰 The low buildings make the sky look wider, which is nice🌤️🏢 The town has a nostalgic feel to it😌 The use of colors on the buildings is stylish. Brick-colored buildings really catch the eye⛪️ I’ll take my time to watch all the videos when I have more time🙌🏼Have a wonderful day☺️👍
Newtown is a unique neighbourhood and I like it very much. In fact, I had not come here for a few years and I don't know it is because I was filming or it has been changed, I saw a different Newtown this time. There are many interesting suburbs in Sydney, I have a long list to film and cannot find the time to do so yet. ❤ Thanks for watching. ❤
Yeah. I used to like Newtown a lot, but I fear its lost its edge a bit. It's still "nice", but as it says in the notes, 'counter-culture has become trendy'. As someone who has always wanted to subvert the dominant paradigm, I feel I now have to go elsewhere. And almost my surprise its in the West of Sydney that I now more commonly find its leading edge.
Thanks for sharing. Where are the west of Sydney that you are referring? I am very curious and would like to take a walk there. Sydney is a beautiful city that has so many possibilities to offer. I Leo Sydney so much and couldn't wait to learn more about it and share the Sydney I know in my channel. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and have a great weekend. 🌹
@@smallworldBigwalk That's an excellent question and there's quite a bit to unpack there. To give some context, geographically when people talk of "Sydney" they often think of the harbour, the CBD and its surroundings. It's the places tourists and influencers constantly photograph and vlog about. .Sydney's centre (or sometimes even its entirety) is thought of as such. Yet its population centre is actually around Rosehill and moving towards Parramatta. Yet they get called 'western suburbs', when they are really the 'central suburbs'. Historically that image of Sydney belongs to the 1950s, a time when you needed to 'go into the city' to do anything important, if you lived 'way out there'. Sydney Harbour was once a working harbour; now it's just a pleasure lake, cruise ship destination and tourist ferry route. Places like Darling Harbour, Woolloomooloo, Barangaroo, Surrey Hills, Enmore, Kings Cross and the Rocks were once genuinely gritty/edgy places. But they have now been gentrified, pacified, and made photogenic. It does wonders for property values, but something gets lost in that process, and I think it might be authenticity. None of this is a criticism of your clips. You have often made real efforts to go to places in Greater Sydney, that are outside that box. It's often in those 'other places' where that edge, that authenticity and that grit still manifests. It's often more about the people than it is just about the place. Metaphorically I'm less interested in fine dining than I am in getting a real taste of the authentic cuisine. I want to get a taste for what it is like to live there, than just bask in its superficial charms. That probably makes me unusual, as the demand is probably more for the familiar, the pretty and the famous. But great insights and art always arise at the edge. The ancient Greeks thought of themselves as 'civilised', while those outside their walls were mere 'barbarians'. Western Sydney is outside the walls of 'Nice Sydney', and that's why it is more interesting to me. And it's not just Western Sydney, places like the Illawarra, the Hunter, the Southern Highlands and the Central Coast are all full of sights and stories. I won't go into more rural areas, as your clips seem usually more about urban walks. So here are a few suggestions, selected for being amenable to walks Parramatta - the mix of cultures - the first grain - the first Government House - the Rum Rebellion - the ferry ride - the history of real individuals recorded along the riverbank - the towers and transport - the parks - Eat Street - the vast health and education precincts - the urbanity of a big city within a big city. Camden / Campbelltown / Liverpool - the preservation of Camden as a delightful village - the quaintness of Cobbitty - the historic airport precinct - the vast Mt Annan Botanic Gardens - Green Valley (the dumping ground for the 'barbarians' ousted from inner Sydney suburbs to facilitate gentrification - check out "Whatever Happened to Green Valley?" on UA-cam, made decades ago by the famous director Peter Weir, who gave them the equipment and a bit of help to tell their own stories) Penrith / St Marys / Blacktown - The Nepean River river and river walk - the Penrith commercial centre - the Mulgoa Rd precinct (entertainment, clubs, eateries, adventure venues, sports venues and, for such a lively place, co-located with aged care facilities) - St Marys, a place in transition, the stepping off point and metro connection for the new Western Sydney Airport - Sydney Zoo - the parklands - and the vast amount of industry. It might not have the impressive buildings of Harbour Sydney, but it was mostly people from Western Sydney that built those. There are heaps more. Cabramatta and Bankstown are great places for authentic food and cultural events. New developments which represent modern approaches to community (for better or worse) can be found in places like Oran Park and Edmondson Park. Haven't even mentioned places iliked the Hills District, but I'm less familiar with it. And I suppose places like Olympic Park, Auburn, Wentworth Park, Rhodes, Burwood, Ashfield and Strathfield are sort of in the West, even though east of the population centre of Greater Sydney.
@@tacitdionysus3220 Thanks for your reply. I will try to walk more and know more of the city I love so much. Many places that you mentioned are new to me, I will try to explore them in the future. Thank you very much and have a great day. 🌹
Thank you for another enjoyable walking video🥰
The low buildings make the sky look wider, which is nice🌤️🏢
The town has a nostalgic feel to it😌
The use of colors on the buildings is stylish. Brick-colored buildings really catch the eye⛪️
I’ll take my time to watch all the videos when I have more time🙌🏼Have a wonderful day☺️👍
Newtown is a unique neighbourhood and I like it very much. In fact, I had not come here for a few years and I don't know it is because I was filming or it has been changed, I saw a different Newtown this time. There are many interesting suburbs in Sydney, I have a long list to film and cannot find the time to do so yet. ❤ Thanks for watching. ❤
Yeah. I used to like Newtown a lot, but I fear its lost its edge a bit. It's still "nice", but as it says in the notes, 'counter-culture has become trendy'. As someone who has always wanted to subvert the dominant paradigm, I feel I now have to go elsewhere. And almost my surprise its in the West of Sydney that I now more commonly find its leading edge.
Thanks for sharing. Where are the west of Sydney that you are referring? I am very curious and would like to take a walk there.
Sydney is a beautiful city that has so many possibilities to offer. I Leo Sydney so much and couldn't wait to learn more about it and share the Sydney I know in my channel. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and have a great weekend. 🌹
@@smallworldBigwalk That's an excellent question and there's quite a bit to unpack there.
To give some context, geographically when people talk of "Sydney" they often think of the harbour, the CBD and its surroundings. It's the places tourists and influencers constantly photograph and vlog about. .Sydney's centre (or sometimes even its entirety) is thought of as such. Yet its population centre is actually around Rosehill and moving towards Parramatta. Yet they get called 'western suburbs', when they are really the 'central suburbs'.
Historically that image of Sydney belongs to the 1950s, a time when you needed to 'go into the city' to do anything important, if you lived 'way out there'. Sydney Harbour was once a working harbour; now it's just a pleasure lake, cruise ship destination and tourist ferry route. Places like Darling Harbour, Woolloomooloo, Barangaroo, Surrey Hills, Enmore, Kings Cross and the Rocks were once genuinely gritty/edgy places. But they have now been gentrified, pacified, and made photogenic. It does wonders for property values, but something gets lost in that process, and I think it might be authenticity.
None of this is a criticism of your clips. You have often made real efforts to go to places in Greater Sydney, that are outside that box. It's often in those 'other places' where that edge, that authenticity and that grit still manifests. It's often more about the people than it is just about the place. Metaphorically I'm less interested in fine dining than I am in getting a real taste of the authentic cuisine. I want to get a taste for what it is like to live there, than just bask in its superficial charms.
That probably makes me unusual, as the demand is probably more for the familiar, the pretty and the famous. But great insights and art always arise at the edge. The ancient Greeks thought of themselves as 'civilised', while those outside their walls were mere 'barbarians'. Western Sydney is outside the walls of 'Nice Sydney', and that's why it is more interesting to me. And it's not just Western Sydney, places like the Illawarra, the Hunter, the Southern Highlands and the Central Coast are all full of sights and stories. I won't go into more rural areas, as your clips seem usually more about urban walks.
So here are a few suggestions, selected for being amenable to walks
Parramatta - the mix of cultures - the first grain - the first Government House - the Rum Rebellion - the ferry ride - the history of real individuals recorded along the riverbank - the towers and transport - the parks - Eat Street - the vast health and education precincts - the urbanity of a big city within a big city.
Camden / Campbelltown / Liverpool - the preservation of Camden as a delightful village - the quaintness of Cobbitty - the historic airport precinct - the vast Mt Annan Botanic Gardens - Green Valley (the dumping ground for the 'barbarians' ousted from inner Sydney suburbs to facilitate gentrification - check out "Whatever Happened to Green Valley?" on UA-cam, made decades ago by the famous director Peter Weir, who gave them the equipment and a bit of help to tell their own stories)
Penrith / St Marys / Blacktown - The Nepean River river and river walk - the Penrith commercial centre - the Mulgoa Rd precinct (entertainment, clubs, eateries, adventure venues, sports venues and, for such a lively place, co-located with aged care facilities) - St Marys, a place in transition, the stepping off point and metro connection for the new Western Sydney Airport - Sydney Zoo - the parklands - and the vast amount of industry. It might not have the impressive buildings of Harbour Sydney, but it was mostly people from Western Sydney that built those.
There are heaps more. Cabramatta and Bankstown are great places for authentic food and cultural events. New developments which represent modern approaches to community (for better or worse) can be found in places like Oran Park and Edmondson Park. Haven't even mentioned places iliked the Hills District, but I'm less familiar with it. And I suppose places like Olympic Park, Auburn, Wentworth Park, Rhodes, Burwood, Ashfield and Strathfield are sort of in the West, even though east of the population centre of Greater Sydney.
@@tacitdionysus3220 Thanks for your reply. I will try to walk more and know more of the city I love so much. Many places that you mentioned are new to me, I will try to explore them in the future. Thank you very much and have a great day. 🌹