Adelaide, South Australia
1. People prowling the streets at midnight with a bag of weed, rollie cigarettes and either a fishing rod or a plank of wood. (Adelaide is Australia's drug capital.)
2. Teenagers who think standing in groups and being vulgar at everyone who walks past them who probably can't beat them up, is cool. They fail at wit the same way they failed at school.
3. Lots of Japanese people. After WW2 we had a whole lot of Japanese families move to Adelaide. Asian is the most common race here after White European, and Japanese is the most common out of the Asian immigrants. I don't mean this as a bad thing, like the first 2 points - I love Japanese culture and think their women are gorgeous. So mostly I'm bragging.
4. Parks. Adelaide technically is a 1-mile square section of city, very small, but is also known by its suburbs, which go on for about 1.5 hours in every direction from the city. In every suburb, there are parks all over the place. In the city, that is only 1 mile square, we have about 3 large parks. Parks everywhere!
5. The best bus ticket system in Australia. You can buy a multi-trip, which has 10 trips on it. Each time you use a trip, you can keep using that one trip for 2 hours, which allows you to take a bus and a train, and then hop on the train home later, and only use 1 trip. Also, we have Interpeak and Peak tickets (Interpeak only usable Mon-Fri 9-3, but half the price), Concession, Student, Adult and Mon-Fri 9-3 senior citizens ride for free. (Caveat: The buses don't go very often, all things considered. It's easier to get around other cities in Australia, but those places will cost you a lot more money. It's a trade off.)
6. An awful lot of factories. Fucking things are everywhere.
7. This one is for the men in the audience. You know how, if you're using a urinal, you'll stand off to the side to minimise the possibility of being directly next to another man? Well, Adelaide seems to have an abundance of men who don't seem to grasp this concept. Either they stand near the middle, or if they come in after you they stand right next to you. So if you're a man visiting Adelaide, if you want privacy, use a stall.
8. Zero (0) major publishing houses. Not even any branches of major publishing houses. We have some small publishers here, a very limited number. Generally they consist of: 1 fiction publisher that just started out, 1 vanity press, and about 6 technical manual publishers.
9. The cleanest air in Australia. Unfortunately this is offset by the masses of cigarette butts and empty chip packets on the ground wherever you look. A study was done, and in 2010 the most common item of litter in Adelaide was empty chip packets. Astonishing when you consider how many smokers we have in this city!
10. Rundle Mall. This one is probably in the guidebooks. We have in Rundle Mall (heart of the city itself) the big balls, and the pigs. Sound like a barn dance? It's not. The pigs are, well, pigs, but they're made out of metal, quite shiny, and have been set up near a fake bin partway down the open-air mall strip. One pig is standing on its back legs, with its front legs propped on the bin, and its snout looking for discarded food. Very weird to see the first time you walk through Rundle Mall... And then the big balls are two enormous metal spheres, one on top of the other (a complicated bit of welding no doubt took place to keep the top ball secure and thus not killing tourists). This is where everyone chooses to meet up in the city. It's kind of like our version of The Eiffel Tower, or the top of The Empire State Building. Not as cosmopolitan, but hey, we're mostly a working class city.