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David Baker's avatar

Tweed Heads. It's a terrific place, when you're looking at it, in the rear view mirror.

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Had a blinder's avatar

Port Pirie has redeemed itself?

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David's avatar

Hi Mr Rissole and team, I would like to know how we can nominate New Zealand as a STOA, only just realised where this is coming from, I do love it but in my over seas travel one country stands out as being a truly shit place and it's " the land of the long white cloud" . It has so many of the attributes you highlight in some of Australia's shitholes all wrapped up in one miserable geological abomination , I have gone on for hours about Kiwi Land. We cut our trip short and came home early , very scary little place full of very strange people, do love your work though, we have some very ordinary hamlets. I live near Port Pirie and come from Port Adelaide, it does , however, still feel better than most of New Zealand.

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Rick Furphy's avatar

Here's our New Zealand issue of the Shit Holidays newsletter: https://shittownsofaustralia.substack.com/p/shit-holidays-newsletter-5

We used to write Shit Towns of New Zealand before STOA, and have covered about 125 NZ shit towns in our STONZ book series - see https://shittownsofaustralia.substack.com/p/buy-our-crap

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Lisa's avatar

To be honest. Ippy could be top of this list for so many reasons. The area has a lot of trash that cause more problems then Walco Prison on Taco Tuesday nights

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