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I honestly find it hard to believe the sort of losers old mate is mentioning in the article actually exist.
You get a laugh out of Americans who refuse to travel because their country is "so diverse". Can only imagine the wilful ignorance of someone who's life is condensed to a few blocks radius. Brisbane isn't big enough to stick to one side of it.
Eh, I've lived in 3 countries and travelled in over 20. I've not explored very much of Australia, but I've been down the coast as far as Canberra, plus Melbourne, and a handful of spots further west and north than the Sunshine Coast.
I still have spent precious little time within the greater Brisbane region, on the southside. There's just not a lot that one side has to offer that the other does not, and the vast majority of what is unique on one side is within 2 km of the river. Rectangular sports stadium in Milton, round one in Woolloongabba. CBD northside, Southbank southside. There's a big shopping centre in the north at Chermside, and south at Garden City; as well as west at Indro and east at Carindale. An Ikea an North Lakes and Logan. I've probably driven or trained through the southside, to the Gold Coast or beyond, more often than I've gone to a destination within it.
Brisbane is definitely big enough to stick to one side of it, as far as one city is ever big enough to stay within.