Differences between Adelaide and Sydney

I came up with these in Kamikaze Mode on WriteorDie.com, to try and simulate the lack of second thought that these first impressions have had.

It's greener.
Many more spiders.
Channel 10 Weather Guy sounds like the Cunningham's Warehouse guy who yells the temperatures at you at rapid pace.
No Cunningham's Warehouse.
No Monkeys in the morning.
Sydney Harbour Bridge
The rugby player physique seems popular.
Lots more clouds, and breezes.
The two lane highway starts about 400kms from the CBD, instead of one hundred.
There are different birds.
Cicadas, although I have found only one shell so far.
Extreme lack of Woolworths Plus petrol stations!
Didn't see any Coopers on sale at the bottle shop, but wasn't exactly looking for them either.
Whenever something is mentioned as being AEST I don't have to mentally subtract half an hour.
No aeroplanes flying over my house for the first time in three years.
I'm pretty sure everyone is secretly judging me for being from Adelaide, although that could be the schizophrenia slowly developing.
Amount of people carrying DSLRs around in town is quite large.
No Broadband.
Physio's cost more.
I saw a sign saying "Early Bird Parking, in before 9:30am - $35"
Don't feel as guilty when I watch Adelaide 36ers playing at home on One HD.
Way more roundabouts, although that could just be my suburb.
The Princes Highway is very busy, which obviously doesn't exist in Adelaide.
I can catch a train home from town at 1am. But not much later than that.
Nuclear Power.
Much easier to avoid AFL.
The gap in One Day Cricket innings is now filled with News, rather than being filled with Antiques Roadshow and the first 30 minutes of the second innings being replaced with news.
I think I recognise a lot of the News/Current Affair Presenters as up and coming stars of Australian Television who disappeared from Adelaide televisions some time ago.
Also there is some new channel called TVS.
Reception is very bad although that's probably because the aerial is split.
When there's a story about dodgy humans in the news you don't have to guess if it was North or South, you just assume it was in the West.
Everytime you search for directions on Google Maps you then have to re-search with "Avoid Tolls" clicked.

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