There are a few questions I ask my passengers to get the conversation rolling during a ride. They include: When was the best day in your life? And, how do rate your day out of ten? More recently, I have started asking: Do you like Canberra? And, do you like coming to Canberra?
It may surprise you but around 98% of my customers say they either like Canberra, and/or, they like coming to Canberra. Canberra gets such a bagging from the media and I thought that this would be reflected in the responses to my question. But no, most like it.
When I ask why they like Canberra, most of the responses are associated with Canberra's cleanliness, accessibility, sporting and recreation facilities, and food scene. My brother, who lives in Adelaide, says Canberra is boring, and he would never move back. I put my brother's view of Canberra to my customers and they say either, he wasn't looking hard enough, or, as one of my customer's put it, "Canberra is boring but good".
And finally, I made up a terrible Dad joke about Canberra: How do Canberrans say goodbye? See you a-round-about.
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