Open question for @sydney and #Sydney on Mastodon:

If the suburbs around Chatswood and Crows Nest are on the Lower North Shore, and the area around Hornsby is the Upper North Shore, then what’s Ryde?

  • scttw@mastodon.social
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    1 year ago

    @ajsadauskas @sydney if the story is about house prices or cost of living: Sydney’s north. If the story is about gangs, drugs, shootings, or unemployment: Sydney’s South West. Everywhere can be Sydney’s South West if you truely believe.

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    1 year ago

    Anything west of the Lane Cove River / Lane Cove National Park is not the North Shore

    I’ve seen Ryde called the North West but it’s not that far north or west

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      1 year ago

      Ryde, North Ryde, West Ryde, East Ryde. They got lazy naming suburbs, and wtf happened to South Ryde?

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        On Google Maps, if you search South Ryde it will display an area with a border south of North Ryde. I don’t know the area that well and have no idea if that’s what the locals consider to be South Ryde. I’ve always thought of Ryde as just it’s own thing.

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          1 year ago

          Yeah, I couldn’t find it as a suburb. Maybe it is a local reference, kinda like Top Ryde…though now that makes me wonder where Bottom Ryde is lol

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            1 year ago

            Was it ever a suburb? Wikipedia says that the area Google Maps highlights as South Ryde is actually just Ryde. No mention of a South Ryde.

    • AJ Sadauskas@aus.socialOP
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      @BenAveling @sydney Lol great maps. I especially like the descriptions of Hornsby as being either “Not Sydney” or the North Shore’s “Buffer zone”.

      My only quibble is with the North Shore map showing anything on the south side of the harbour.

      True story: I used to work for a company that had its offices in St Leonards because the boss hated crossing the bridge.