Rowan, It wasn?t a troll. My trolls are normally far, far less subtle than that. My ?guess? was that since Australia is such a large country in comparison to the UK and has a very small population in comparison to the UK, that its relatively sparsely populated. I know that some cities are quite heavily populated, indeed one of our friends left to work in Sydney for three years only last week, but that the population density in the inside of the country is almost non-existent. As I said it was a guess rather than any informed knowledge.
In London postcodes are down to very small areas, you can easily check this through a number of postcode lookup systems used by banks or online shoppers. Clearly I was wrong about Australia. I apologise for any offence caused. I wasn?t aware that population density was such a sore subject in Australia. However now I know that we have an Aussie on the list and the Ashes are over, I will feel completely happy to troll about that, confident that at least for the next N months, there?s nothing you can do about it :) It was a great series, full of drama and excitement. It was weird not knowing which English or which Aussie team was going to turn up for each of the Tests. Just realised that the RWC starts tonight here and Australia are in our Pool of Death. Mmm??might retract my comment above :) We?re going round to a Welsh friends to watch the opening ceremony. I know for certain that one of the Welsh, Australian or English are going to be really unhappy in a few weeks time. <gulp> Rob. > On 18 Sep 2015, at 07:35, Rowan Worth <rowanw at dugeo.com> wrote: > >> Outside London, a postcode can cover a far, far wider area specially in > rural or sparsely populated areas. I would imagine Australian postcodes to > be similar but thats based on a guess rather than actually any knowledge. > > I'm not sure whether to take this claim of ignorance at face value or > whether its an incredibly subtle troll aimed at Australia's lack of > population density (in which case well played sir, I guess you deserve the > ashes after all). > > Postcodes in my city (Perth) cover a *much* wider area than 20 houses - > generally several suburbs as Chris Waters suggested. But we jokingly refer > to Perth as "the biggest country town in the world" which is why your > comparison to rural England is so amusing/cutting :P > > -Rowan > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users at mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
