YOU SAID IT! How do you become a local?
LETTERS AND COMMENTS
Glenda Evans
Haha I worked at the Central and I was there with my five year old son when a tourist asked if we were local and my son said “We live here but I haven’t been alive for 20years so I don’t know.” We moved from the Tablelands so not far away!!
Cabba Cabalzar
If you're divorced twice and the mozzies don't bite you no more... you're local.
Sarah Sykes
Lived in Airlie Beach , had to be there 20 years to become a local. Up here in Port we were classed as locals more or less straight away. It was fun back in those days to stop and chat down the main stretch. Everyone knew Everyone.
Robert Carroll
This is how it’s always been for the last 70 years and are still in play Ken was close but not spot on,running away not much fun as my third mention 1-Born here 2-Lived here for 40 years 3-Back door your best mate.
Ken Tobler
You don’t become a local until you run away with your best mates wife that was the old saying.
Jody Pitt
And then there’s another spin on being a local, differing definitions: 1. you have generations of the same family, born and bred here - you’re a “true” local 2. You’ve been here 20-30+ years, have had kids here etc - you’re a local by local terms 3. You’ve been here for five minutes - you think you’re a local. All locals, all enjoying this great place we call home.
Sue Anic
Great read! Resonate to a lot of that but the locals we’ve met are sensationally gorgeous and have taken us in like family. Even our local waterhole is like hanging with family. For newish Mexicans, we adore our new home and get a good laugh at those who like to ‘hate’ us on social media cause that’s the only place we don’t feel the love at times.
Lou Searle
15 years I lived there and was told this: You had to attend a wedding, a funeral, a Christening. You had to have your partner cheat on you and you had to have your push bike stolen twice. It took me 15 years lol
Grant Allison
I'm from GC but visit PD very regularly since 1995. It's my 2nd and spiritual home. Just love it. Queenslanders in my experience don't hate southerners as such. Just Victorians. A very strange place full of weirdos.
Rupert Bamford
Shop, drink and mix with other long-term residents and you will be considered a local in Port Douglas, if you were born in Mossman, then maybe!!
Wayne Brownlie
Don't just blow in from elsewhere & pay cash for a property.
Gloria Wong
The real locals will tell you, you need to have been born here to be concidered a local. However these days anyone and everyone who's been here for more than 3 minutes and says "I live here" likes to call themselves a "local", even our seasonal workers/backpackers call themselves locals and asking for local discounts !
Matt Griffin
Kicked out of the Iron Bar, your dog died here, is what I was told.
