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By Jenny Stewart, published 30/9/2009As Sydney and other Australian cities become more built up we lose that precious, Australian, sense of space.
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that there is some kind of genetic input here, for even as a little
kid, I was happiest going out into the country, with lots of
animals around etc.
I lived in various European cities, one African city, but when
I came to Australia, it was in fact the open space and ability
to live outside of cities, that really attracted me.
Reactions of others to bush life, is always interesting to observe.
Some get really nervous out in the country, fear of the unknown
perhaps, people conditioned to city life, who look at nature and
see "nothing", rather then what is actually there in all its splendor.
Many women have a problem with country life, they just need those
shopping malls and manicure salons etc. Our town has a real problem
keeping an doctor, not because the doctors don't like it, but
because their wives commonly rebel at the thought of country life.
Yet if we look at many top businessmen, rock stars, politicians
and others, the moment they can afford it, they are off to the
country to breed some horses, grow some wine grapes and somehow
go back to their earthy roots of what life is all about. They'll
play around with tractors, like big boys with big toys and be
far more content with the world, then they ever are in the rat race.
So I am of the opinion that somehow our instinct matters in all this.
Some people take to those open spaces like ducks to water, others
need city life to be happy, each to their own I guess.