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Topic: Swooping birds

Not really a joke! but sent to me by a Sydney based daughter

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Not really a joke!

Moved from Your jokes.

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Looking for information about Penrith, I found it described as a suburb of Sydney. But I also found it described as a city located west of Sydney. How can it be both a suburb and a city in its own right?

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Perhaps Australia, like USA, considers any community with an elected council to be a city. The nearby "city" of Gig Harbor, is, I'd guess, roughly the size of Thornton Heath (an area of Croydon, Greater London). Neither Croydon nor Greater London are cities of course.

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Perhaps Australia, like USA, considers any community with an elected council to be a city.

Perhaps, Geoff, but the main thing I was questioning is the notion that one city can be a suburb of another city. Why would a mere suburb need its own elected council?

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In England, villages have a Council. It is called a Parish Council. Notwithstanding the name 'Parish' a Parish Council is a civil body, not connected to the church.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parish_council_(England)

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I would consider any community largely dependent on an adjacent larger community to be a suburb. I have no knowledge of Penrith, NSW, but maybe it is primarily a residential area, with little industry of its own, housing folk who commute to their employment in Sydney.

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Penrith is indeed considered a suburb of Sydney. It is located about 55 kilometers (34 miles) west of the Sydney central business district and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region12. Despite being a distinct city with its own local government area, Penrith is often regarded as a suburb due to its integration into the larger Sydney metropolitan area12.

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GB wrote:

I would consider any community largely dependent on an adjacent larger community to be a suburb.

So would I!

GB wrote:

I have no knowledge of Penrith, NSW, but maybe it is primarily a residential area, with little industry of its own, housing folk who commute to their employment in Sydney.

Indeed. A commuter town, it seems to me, is pretty much the very definition of a suburb.

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