Welcome once again to the Shit Towns of Australia newsletter. This week we continue our slang map series, adding Perth to Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and New Zealand. Stay tuned for Canberra, Gold Coast, Newcastle and Hobart, and let us know in the comments if there are any nicknames that need to be included.
Gold Coast Nick names-
Palm Beach (Centrelink by the sea).
Nerang (Nerangatang-Vill)
Tugun (Tug-on)
Tweed Heads (Weed Heads)
Surfers Paradise (Surfers Palestine)
Varcity Lakes (Varcity Bronks)
Sanctuary Cove (Sanctimonious Cove)
Newcastle: (Newy)
Wallsend - World’s End
West Wallsend - Worse World’s End
Cessnock - Neck-nock, Cess-pit
Morpeth - More-Meth
Hamilton (+ East, South) - Hamo
Lake Macquarie - Radioactive Sewer Dump
Redhead - Ranga-Ville
Charlestown - King City
Garden City - Garden Shitty
Garden Suburb - Garden Shithole
Merewether Heights - Wankerville
Stockton - The Asylum
Kooragang Island - the Centre for Global Environmental Destruction
Hexham - Mozzie Central
Sandgate - Land of the Dead
Toronto - Tronna
Booragul - Boogerville
Valentine - False Advertising
Edgeworth - Edge of the Earth
Windale - Losedale, Methdale
Croudace Bay - Crowded Bay
Woodrising - Saw a hottie
Kilaben Bay - Kill-A-Ben-Or-Two Bay
Wangi Wangi - Whingey Whingey
Struth, is that one from Toowoomba fair dink. I hear there is some bad crap happening up there.