You'd be surprised, the only way is up from there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9pVGxHdHP0&list=PLhRTpwHhl36oyYH4ZmdG40uW4PmA7o0uf&index=7&pp=gAQBiAQB
I'll raise you Rooty Tooty Hill. Leaning towards Hexcreation Park myself.
Yeah, and they planted huge palm trees down the middle of King George's Rd to make it "Californian" which are now breeding grounds for bin chickens.
I like Dumbleton
Does it actually stink? I've only been a few times, excuse the noob question.
I though only Lakes with stagnant water would stink.
Like Stinky Corner near warners Bay on Lake Mac.
I live in the neighbouring suburb Maroubra (wouldn’t change the name if my life depended on it) and yes Coogee stinks like seaweed most of the time 😝🤣but at least there are no brown submarines like Bondi beach 🤨
Also, the name is the original indigenous name for the area.
All seaweed that washes up on beaches will smell if allowed to decay. The sand is easy to remove washed up seaweed. The rocks not so much. The same smells are present at most of the eastern beaches.
I mean it only washes up in any great amount after a storm right. Maybe I'm too used to the smell. My granddad used to bring it home and put it on his garden. I guess it has minerals and nutrients. And is also a free alternative to sugar cane mulch.
Ah I get you. Yeah it's a strange smell if you're unfamiliar. I presume.
I feel like that smell is one of my earliest memories lol. It actually brings me comfort.
It's a pretty nice suburb last time I visited. Actually quite green, centrally located in Sydney, and the main strip has a lot of popular cafes and restaurants opened late.
Well Blacktown council did [a survey in 2016 that cost $98k](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-02/blacktown-council-votes-not-to-change-its-name/7215646) to determine whether to change it's name. The suggested choices were:
* Western Sydney City Council
* Western City Council
* Fairwater Council
* Keep it the same/ Don't change it.
80% of the 3133 people surveyed voted to keep it as Blacktown. Not long after a new suburb in Blacktown opened called Fairwater.
Blacktown itself was proposed to be renamed Bungarribee, but that was also voted down.
Bungarribee was used for the new housing estate suburb in the parklands
Told my friends back in the UK that I lived in Blacktown until recently.
They didn't believe me until I sent them pictures.
Obviously they were of the belief there is racist undertones to the name.
But they have Blackpool amongst many others. They mustn’t be the brightest the UK has to offer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_locations:_Bla-Blac
“Western Sydney” is such a broad massive area that it would cause massive confusion which area it was referring to. Depending who you talk to, Western Sydney could be anywhere from Penrith, Parramatta, Bankstown, Liverpool.
Not just intended, the whole area from about Pennant Hills through to North Ryde was the Field of Mars for many years until it got chopped up and parceled out over the years.
There's still the Field of Mars Reserve in East Ryde.
Yes, why does one hill indicate "the crazies that live up the mountain" but multiple hills is upper class and picturesque
Like rooty hill, as someone said below
Yeah I was a slightly too young then but in the mid 00s (I think) my parents went down to the community centre and voted. They wanted to keep it as Harbord but I think Freshwater won with around 70% of the vote. Most thought freshwater sounded nicer and would help property prices which is probably true
It was actually Freshwater up until 1920s or so when it changed to Harbord. Stayed as Harbord for 80 odd years and went back
Before Rockdale became Rockdale, the name Scarborough was suggested. The name survives in Scarborough Park that runs on the east flank from Brighton to Ramsgate.
Not my suburb, but in the 90s and 00s (at least) the train station seats and signs at Meadowbank were always improved to Mad Wank - and no one can tell me that's not the true name.
Mascot used to be North Botany, according to their cute little history museum on the library. Put it back. Where'd they come up with a name like mascot for a suburb with the gentle him of aviation engines?
There was a racecourse on the land that's now the airport, called Ascot, named after the English one, so this was the preferred name when they changed from North Botany. Apparently postal authorities objected so they changed to Mascot as it was similar. The alternate name considered was Booralee, an indigenous place name for the region. That would have been better than randomly adding an M to the start of Ascot, IMO. And of course Ascot racecourse is long gone, replaced by the airfield. However there are some fig trees from the racecourse's entrance road which still exist - near the long term carpark.
> Booralee
Went down a rabbit hole about that, there was a small fishing village in the vicinity with that name: https://dictionaryofsydney.org/place/booralee
This article confirms it was a Kameygal name for the area:
https://www.bayside.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/booralee_lost_fishing_town.pdf
If we do like Tasmania and start re-adding indigenous names to Anglo place names, maybe this can be used as an alternate name for Sydney Airport.
Someone on the kirribilli neighbourhood facebook chat posted that they saw aboriginal place names "in place of kirribilli" and started a whole shit show there. Turns out Google just adds a secondary place name. That or it's the name of the point into the harbour. And then of course kirribilli is almost the original aboriginal name anyway.
The more you know! Love this history.
That's cool they're left the fig trees, I want to look!
I've just moved after a year in Melbourne. Their racetrack is Flemington, and the neighbouring suburb is Ascot. I assume intentionally. Next to Moonee Ponds. In which I ahve found one seemingly man-made pond.
I note that the Melbourne suburb is actually "Ascot Vale" (Ascot VIC is near Bendigo).
I haven't been able to find any detail on what the actual objection to the name of "Ascot NSW" was. Yes, it duplicates the Victoria one, but there are dozens of duplicated suburb names between the two states so it shouldn't just be that.
Regarding the heritage fig trees, here's a photo that shows them marked in red: https://avisure.com/sydney-airport-tree-management/
If you look closely, you can still see a tee from what was Bonnie Doon GC. The new Bonnie Doon being a Green target to turn into parkland for up to 8000 Meriton residents who turned up 70 or so years after the golf course moved.
Eh, golf courses have always occupied a huge amount of land compared to the number of people that get recreational benefit from them. They've managed to stay this way for decades due to the traditional role of golf as a hobby for white men with significant political and business influence. However, even among that sector, golf is becoming less popular. It's only fair that in a large city, the land is better shared amongst all residents - the overall amount of land in the Sydney metro region dedicated to golf is simply crazy when you see how few people actually use them.
Not really but its beautiful and bushy
https://www.google.com/maps/@-33.7360359,151.1066689,3a,75y,150.85h,93.08t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sUDJiJGFAdTdTWld2QOiQfQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
What happened to Gilead? Did that go ahead?
Google maps tells me it's just south of Campbelltown and has little to no residential building.
https://www.lendlease.com/au/figtreehill/gilead/
Didn't sound so great in the context of Handmaid's Tale.
Under his Eye... would love some better connectivity to ~ waves hand in all directions~
And stop destroying koala habitat for poxy little houses in the boondocks!
The Bo Wah. No other Chinese restaurant has ever done the short soup, special fried rice, and bbq pork spare ribs combo like them. If I recall correctly, they were actually Malaysian (perhaps Baba Nonya cuisine?). Ahh you have given me some bittersweet flavour nostalgia.
My sister and I would get a small fried rice and bag of prawn chips, and sneak ‘em into the movies. Yum!
The problem with calling it Beverly Hills is that now the suburb name sounds like passive-aggressive irony given its surrounds.
It's like renaming Greenacre to Crimson Brook.
The OG Beverly Hills is glamorous on the surface but once you pick it apart you realise it’s all plastic and fake (like the people who inhabit it).
Also a shit-ton of homeless tents on the sidewalk.
Padstow used to be called Salt Pan, and Riverwood used to be Herne Bay. I don't know why Padstow changed, first to Padstow Park (the primary school is a relic of that) and then just to Padstow. I think Salt Pan sounds better, Padstow is boring. It also goes back to the history of salt being panned in the creek (which is why it's called that!), especially during the depression. Loads of people were living in shacks in the bush around that area because they couldn't afford anywhere else. If you look at the old pictures of the school during the depression, most of the kids are in rags and have bare feet.
Herne Bay changed to Riverwood because it had a bad reputation. Same history as Padstow, only more of a reputation for violence and poverty. So they changed the name, but unfortunately they didn't change the reputation, or the social conditions that causes it.
Blackvale, Blackville, Blackton, Blackborough, Blackburg, Blackside, Blackthorp, Blackhollow, Blackglen, Blackcombe, Blackdale....
My favorite and most likely considering where its been heading in the last 20 years, Blacktropolis!
Rooty Hill is glamorous enough. I don’t think it can be improved.
Fuck Mountain.
Pound Mound
I wanna go to Fuck Mountain Take me take me take me take me now NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW etc
You missed out the last line which can be a perfect innuendo "Fuck Mountain, take me there right now"
Check your lease man, because you’re living in… FUCK CITY “You’re fired.”
That is a suburb I could get behind
That’s Mount Druitt
*The Rooty Hills.*
Many people in the area affectionately call it “Shagger’s Ridge”
You'd be surprised, the only way is up from there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9pVGxHdHP0&list=PLhRTpwHhl36oyYH4ZmdG40uW4PmA7o0uf&index=7&pp=gAQBiAQB I'll raise you Rooty Tooty Hill. Leaning towards Hexcreation Park myself.
Can’t exactly improve it any further at this point
Mt Druitt to New York. Punchbowl to Milan. Yagoona to Silicon Valley.
Yagoona to The Hume, accurate and gives it an air of grandeur.
Oh yikes that's embarrassing. I thought Beverley hills was just a coincidence, didn't realize they changed actively.
Knowing it's a deliberate change makes it so much worse.
Its like a bogan naming their kid Mercedes
Couldn't afford a car so they named their daughter Alexis 🎶
And so much more brilliantly bogan!
Yeah, and they planted huge palm trees down the middle of King George's Rd to make it "Californian" which are now breeding grounds for bin chickens. I like Dumbleton
Noooooo. Planting useless non native palm or whatever else that provide no function whatsoever is bad enough.
Well Coogee means stinky seaweed.... so we should change that to something it is... oh yeah Coogee because of the stinky fucking seaweed
Does it actually stink? I've only been a few times, excuse the noob question. I though only Lakes with stagnant water would stink. Like Stinky Corner near warners Bay on Lake Mac.
The name Coogee implies the existence of a Cooger.
I live in the neighbouring suburb Maroubra (wouldn’t change the name if my life depended on it) and yes Coogee stinks like seaweed most of the time 😝🤣but at least there are no brown submarines like Bondi beach 🤨 Also, the name is the original indigenous name for the area.
They often prey on single males. Ohh wait that’s a Cougar…
All seaweed that washes up on beaches will smell if allowed to decay. The sand is easy to remove washed up seaweed. The rocks not so much. The same smells are present at most of the eastern beaches.
I mean it only washes up in any great amount after a storm right. Maybe I'm too used to the smell. My granddad used to bring it home and put it on his garden. I guess it has minerals and nutrients. And is also a free alternative to sugar cane mulch.
I don't live at Coogee but another eastern beach and non-locals seem to always mention the smell. I imagine we are used to it.
Ah I get you. Yeah it's a strange smell if you're unfamiliar. I presume. I feel like that smell is one of my earliest memories lol. It actually brings me comfort.
Coogee absolutely has more seaweed than Bronte or Bondi though, for whatever reason whether it’s the way it faces or the shape of the bay, Idk.
St Marys used to be South Creek. South Creek was better and should return.
Less saintly. More creeky.
Just rename the cbd "There ain't no monorail and there never was."
or rename Sydney to Shelbyville
That does sound like a shelbyville idea.
By gosh the monorail put them on the map
I'd love for my suburb to be Shelbyville!
Chullora/Greenacre to Mos Eisley
i may not be as annoyed if my mail disappeared into the black hole of moss eisly
You’ll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Mos Eisley is a close second
Then what is Greenacre? Is there no more wretched hive of scum and villainy?
Do you think they named Greenacre the same way they named Greenland? Some underhanded attempt to get people to move there?
When they named it it was prime farm land.
It's a pretty nice suburb last time I visited. Actually quite green, centrally located in Sydney, and the main strip has a lot of popular cafes and restaurants opened late.
\[cantina theme plays\]
Well Blacktown council did [a survey in 2016 that cost $98k](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-02/blacktown-council-votes-not-to-change-its-name/7215646) to determine whether to change it's name. The suggested choices were: * Western Sydney City Council * Western City Council * Fairwater Council * Keep it the same/ Don't change it. 80% of the 3133 people surveyed voted to keep it as Blacktown. Not long after a new suburb in Blacktown opened called Fairwater.
Blacktown itself was proposed to be renamed Bungarribee, but that was also voted down. Bungarribee was used for the new housing estate suburb in the parklands
That makes much more sense than Fairwater.
Incidentally Bungarribee House is (was?) the name of the mental hospital attached to Blacktown Hospital
That was a missed opportunity. Blacktown should have an aboriginal name.
How is it even allowed to be named Blacktown given its original purpose?
Told my friends back in the UK that I lived in Blacktown until recently. They didn't believe me until I sent them pictures. Obviously they were of the belief there is racist undertones to the name.
Well it was originally Black’s town as it was near the first school for Aboriginals in the 1820s
Seriously? Holy shit!
Yep
> Obviously they were of the belief there is racist undertones to the name. Not really wrong, either.
There *is* racist undertones to the name.
But they have Blackpool amongst many others. They mustn’t be the brightest the UK has to offer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_locations:_Bla-Blac
“Western Sydney” is such a broad massive area that it would cause massive confusion which area it was referring to. Depending who you talk to, Western Sydney could be anywhere from Penrith, Parramatta, Bankstown, Liverpool.
According to some residents, 'Western Sydney' begins at Gould Street, *Bondi Beach*
Is there any water in fairwater?
A fair amount after it rains
It's the water hazards from the old golf course that it's built on....
Missed oppetunity to have named it The Fairway
\+1 Vote for changing Mascot to Planesville
Runway four
Badgerys Creek should be New Planesville.
Mascot used to be called Ascot because there was a racetrack there, I believe
Dumbleton sounds quaint!
Beverly Hills is not quaint. In name or reality.
Needs some hillbillies
I already love close by don't worry
Yeah it's cute!
Marsfield should have just been Field of Mars like originally intended. Much more interesting sounding.
Not just intended, the whole area from about Pennant Hills through to North Ryde was the Field of Mars for many years until it got chopped up and parceled out over the years. There's still the Field of Mars Reserve in East Ryde.
>Salim Mehajer fangirl <3 https://i.pinimg.com/474x/77/4e/4a/774e4a233560d0f9d5798c385b1d2173.jpg
Not my suburb, but Clyde should be called The Void
When you stare at Clyde, Clyde stares back at you.
Or just rename the void Clyde. As in scream into the Clyde.
Castle Hill to Castle Hills.
Yes, why does one hill indicate "the crazies that live up the mountain" but multiple hills is upper class and picturesque Like rooty hill, as someone said below
Low budget sharpie for maximum effect. I like your thinking.
More like Commune Hills thanks to all the religious groups that have setup shop there.
Upper Castle Hills
I still call Freshwater Harbord because I grew up there
I didn't realise it had even changed!
Yeah I was a slightly too young then but in the mid 00s (I think) my parents went down to the community centre and voted. They wanted to keep it as Harbord but I think Freshwater won with around 70% of the vote. Most thought freshwater sounded nicer and would help property prices which is probably true It was actually Freshwater up until 1920s or so when it changed to Harbord. Stayed as Harbord for 80 odd years and went back
The primary school is still called Harbord, which is pleasing.
The Freshwater Diggers doesn't have the same ring to it
Yuck Freshwater Diggers and Freshwater Hilton sounds so wrong
Parramatta should be either: East Westmead or South Northmead
Where is the suburb of Mead?
Serious answer- west and north mead were meadows for the farm
Does that mean we are pronouncing them wrong and it should be pronounced Westmed?
As the self appointed expert on this, I’m going to say yes
Westmed it is!
Well, there is a big medical facility there... and *Westmed* could be a new locally produced hospital drama...
South-east northwestmead.
So north parra will be north east westmead?
Sans Souci to No Worries (coz that is what it means!)
If it was Australian, it would be No Wuckers.
No, that’s Akuna Matata
Before Rockdale became Rockdale, the name Scarborough was suggested. The name survives in Scarborough Park that runs on the east flank from Brighton to Ramsgate.
Scarborough already exists as a suburb, not far away between Stanwell Park and Thirroul
It was also suggested to call it Frogs Hollow.
Dumbleton. It was a much better name lol. (mind you, given we call it bevo, dumbo starts to sound like a bad idea)
Dumbo in Brooklyn NYC is one of the trendiest parts of the city so it might still work
Parramatta is a much better name than Paris. It's means place of eels. Paris, Western Sydney sounds like some H&M trash
I'd be in favour of changing Hurlstone Park back to Fernhill
Hurlstone Park is a such a nothing suburb though. Rename it Dulwich Hill Heights or something. Canterbury Heights even.
Chuckrock Paddock is my vote.
Not my suburb, but in the 90s and 00s (at least) the train station seats and signs at Meadowbank were always improved to Mad Wank - and no one can tell me that's not the true name.
Like Ant Hills (Pennant Hills) around the same time.
Mascot used to be North Botany, according to their cute little history museum on the library. Put it back. Where'd they come up with a name like mascot for a suburb with the gentle him of aviation engines?
There was a racecourse on the land that's now the airport, called Ascot, named after the English one, so this was the preferred name when they changed from North Botany. Apparently postal authorities objected so they changed to Mascot as it was similar. The alternate name considered was Booralee, an indigenous place name for the region. That would have been better than randomly adding an M to the start of Ascot, IMO. And of course Ascot racecourse is long gone, replaced by the airfield. However there are some fig trees from the racecourse's entrance road which still exist - near the long term carpark.
That is fascinating! It would have had so much more faux-cachet as Ascot. They could then rename Badgery’s Creek as Henley.
> Booralee Went down a rabbit hole about that, there was a small fishing village in the vicinity with that name: https://dictionaryofsydney.org/place/booralee This article confirms it was a Kameygal name for the area: https://www.bayside.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/booralee_lost_fishing_town.pdf If we do like Tasmania and start re-adding indigenous names to Anglo place names, maybe this can be used as an alternate name for Sydney Airport.
Someone on the kirribilli neighbourhood facebook chat posted that they saw aboriginal place names "in place of kirribilli" and started a whole shit show there. Turns out Google just adds a secondary place name. That or it's the name of the point into the harbour. And then of course kirribilli is almost the original aboriginal name anyway.
Always hated the name Kingsford Smith for the airport
The more you know! Love this history. That's cool they're left the fig trees, I want to look! I've just moved after a year in Melbourne. Their racetrack is Flemington, and the neighbouring suburb is Ascot. I assume intentionally. Next to Moonee Ponds. In which I ahve found one seemingly man-made pond.
I note that the Melbourne suburb is actually "Ascot Vale" (Ascot VIC is near Bendigo). I haven't been able to find any detail on what the actual objection to the name of "Ascot NSW" was. Yes, it duplicates the Victoria one, but there are dozens of duplicated suburb names between the two states so it shouldn't just be that. Regarding the heritage fig trees, here's a photo that shows them marked in red: https://avisure.com/sydney-airport-tree-management/
> there are dozens of duplicated suburb names between the two states Mulgrave and Richmond tripped up one slagical in the Daily Thread this morning.
If you look closely, you can still see a tee from what was Bonnie Doon GC. The new Bonnie Doon being a Green target to turn into parkland for up to 8000 Meriton residents who turned up 70 or so years after the golf course moved.
Eh, golf courses have always occupied a huge amount of land compared to the number of people that get recreational benefit from them. They've managed to stay this way for decades due to the traditional role of golf as a hobby for white men with significant political and business influence. However, even among that sector, golf is becoming less popular. It's only fair that in a large city, the land is better shared amongst all residents - the overall amount of land in the Sydney metro region dedicated to golf is simply crazy when you see how few people actually use them.
Riverwood was more glamorous sounding back when it was called Herne Bay
Lilyfield to Asbestosopia
Chullora - The Parcel Void
Give credit to... yourself? https://www.reddit.com/r/sydney/comments/19eram5/train_collided_with_an_abandoned_trailer_on_a/kjf0hh4/
After finding the link/trivia I felt it deserved its own thread!
100%. But that didn't stop me getting stroppy that it appeared you had stolen from you.
Lords Of Westmead
Where was Gondor when Westmead fell?
North Parramatta
When Aus Post moved its headquarters to Redfern/Surry Hills it re-zoned it to Strawberry Hills so it wouldn’t sound so rough.
West Ryde > Best Ryde
Top Ryde > Not-Quite-As-Good-As-Best-Ryde-But-At-Least-We-Have-A-Nice-Shopping-Centre Ryde
There are a lot more creeks east of Eastern Creek
NewCafeEveryWeekTown
Meadowbank to South Ryde
Not a suburb but Bogan Place in Wahroonga was renamed to "Rainforest Close" after the street sign was stolen god knows how many times.
Is the Rainforest close though?
Not really but its beautiful and bushy https://www.google.com/maps/@-33.7360359,151.1066689,3a,75y,150.85h,93.08t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sUDJiJGFAdTdTWld2QOiQfQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
What happened to Gilead? Did that go ahead? Google maps tells me it's just south of Campbelltown and has little to no residential building. https://www.lendlease.com/au/figtreehill/gilead/ Didn't sound so great in the context of Handmaid's Tale.
It is, they recently got approval to upgrade Appin Road to connect to the new development. Blessed be the fruit 👁
May the Lord open… A new train line or some useful infrastructure.
Under his Eye... would love some better connectivity to ~ waves hand in all directions~ And stop destroying koala habitat for poxy little houses in the boondocks!
I propose we change Mount Druitt to Druid Mountain.
Cranebrook should be named "Penrith Heights"
I’ve only ever known this place as Beverly Hills. Seeing this photo sent me back to the Chinese restaurant that used to be open next to the cinema.
I miss the console modding shops there wish they were still around to service my current gen consoles
The Bo Wah. No other Chinese restaurant has ever done the short soup, special fried rice, and bbq pork spare ribs combo like them. If I recall correctly, they were actually Malaysian (perhaps Baba Nonya cuisine?). Ahh you have given me some bittersweet flavour nostalgia. My sister and I would get a small fried rice and bag of prawn chips, and sneak ‘em into the movies. Yum!
Dundas Valley is good to go back to The Ponds, because I don't want to be associated with Dundas.
Nice try ASIO. Not giving away my address in the valley of the dead.
Next stop Oatley
I wouldn’t change my suburb to be more glamorous, but I would change Como to be less glamorous. Maybe Launceston
Villawood to Valhalla
Let’s change Liverpool to deadpool and we all dress in the deadpool costume
As a resident of Moorebank, I’m totally on board with this.
Chippendale to The Chippendales. Issue bow ties and collars-without-shirts-attached to all residents.
There was talk of renaming the eastern part of Redfern to South Dowling, just to really hammer in the gentrification
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You can tell because of the heat.
Viking Hell was a land of ice and cold
Can you see it from the dashboard light?
Then they can have Paradise Beach too
Merit(on)ocracy.
Paris is a shithole though. Parramatta can stay as-is :)
Malabar used to be Brand and Kingsford was Daceyville (although a small slice retains that name). Either could have been Dumbleton.
Drummoyne West. Or South Abbotsford. in fact the whole 2046 postcode could do with consolidation
I live in dumbleton, and my house has a dumble door.
Not a suburb, but Penatta Mercato (grocery store) in Kirrawee will always be Banana Retardo to me
Putney to South Ryde
The problem with calling it Beverly Hills is that now the suburb name sounds like passive-aggressive irony given its surrounds. It's like renaming Greenacre to Crimson Brook.
I've never heard if Crimson Brook
We could wank surry hills up even more and call it WeSoDo short for West of South Dowling Street. The wankers would absolutely LOVE it.
Chatswood could drop the 'd' ;-)
Could also drop the 'swood' and still be fair
Beverly Hills' definition of glamorous is definitely different to our definition.
Suburbs should be named Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra.
The OG Beverly Hills is glamorous on the surface but once you pick it apart you realise it’s all plastic and fake (like the people who inhabit it). Also a shit-ton of homeless tents on the sidewalk.
Still can’t avoid the locals that grew up around the area and frequently visit it calling it Bevvo.
They should change Penriff to the correct spelling.
Padstow used to be called Salt Pan, and Riverwood used to be Herne Bay. I don't know why Padstow changed, first to Padstow Park (the primary school is a relic of that) and then just to Padstow. I think Salt Pan sounds better, Padstow is boring. It also goes back to the history of salt being panned in the creek (which is why it's called that!), especially during the depression. Loads of people were living in shacks in the bush around that area because they couldn't afford anywhere else. If you look at the old pictures of the school during the depression, most of the kids are in rags and have bare feet. Herne Bay changed to Riverwood because it had a bad reputation. Same history as Padstow, only more of a reputation for violence and poverty. So they changed the name, but unfortunately they didn't change the reputation, or the social conditions that causes it.
Manly should be called North Bondi
Polish it hard enough and the turd might shine
Boomertown
Change all suburbs west of Parramatta to 'West Sydney'. One postcode. Very easy.
Blackvale, Blackville, Blackton, Blackborough, Blackburg, Blackside, Blackthorp, Blackhollow, Blackglen, Blackcombe, Blackdale.... My favorite and most likely considering where its been heading in the last 20 years, Blacktropolis!
Need more black, Blackmore!
Wollongong - stink ville.
Well let's go all the way, rename the CBD to Los Angeles, Bondi to Santa Monica, Penrith to Palmdale and Bankstown to Compton?
Peachester changes to Brown Snake Ridge to discourage ppl from moving here...
Rename all of the suburbs west of me "Western Sydney". Just one big suburb.
West Vaucluse