On the Awesomeness of a City.

Having just finished Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion, I'm all about rational and logical arguments. Hence, here's my argument regarding the awesomeness of Adelaide*:
1. Adelaide has an abundance of things to do, things to eat, things to see, and people with whom to share the above.
2. Naysayers describe Adelaide as boring. "Boring" depends on the actions of the individual, and how actively they choose to use their time; it does not reflect some innate characteristic of the place.
3. Naysayers point to Adelaide's small size as a negative. This is easily countered with two points; firstly, size does not correlate with awesomeness (otherwise we'd be talking about Mexico, Mumbai and Sao Paulo as the greatest places in the world)**; secondly, smaller size means less traffic, less pollution, and lower prices, which is certainly not a negative!

If you want, you can skip all of the above and just read this: I've moved back to Adelaide. I like it here.

I've been doing not much of anything the past couple of weeks, just hanging out with the family, and making good use of the local library, and the Central Markets. I'm heading back to Mt Gambier on Tuesday night for a few days, to help out when the group of homestay students from Soja Minami visit. After that, it's back to uni to start my third degree - a Graduate Diploma in Library Systems and Information Management. The plan is to spend three days a week at uni, two days doing relief teaching at the many nice schools around my part of Adelaide, collect some Austudy allowance, and save enough money to go to Vietnam.

*Warning: argument may not be logical nor rational.
**In Lonely Planet's Cities book, little Bled, Slovenia (pop: 5000) was placed 90th, ahead of Dhaka, Bangladesh (pop: 12,000,000). So there.