new rules for bagging perth

I've been stuck in a bit a quagmire. I think quagmire is the right word. I can't be bothered looking it up on dictionary.com

I'm doing the share-house flatmate thing. I don't mind it. My housemate is great. My rent is cheap.

But like most of the other people in the office, she's a Sydneysider. By that fact alone nothing exists or makes sense outside of the Sydney bubble.

But she thinks Perth is weird. She's never been there, she probably wouldn't know anything about Perth, had it not been for Triple J singing the praises of many Perth bands over the past few years.

She thinks it's weird to the point of bagging it out.

She's so much of a Sydneysider that no-one's let her in on the rules about bagging Perth.

So just for the record, the rules are:

1. You can bag Perth if you live there or have grown up there
2. You can't bag Perth if you've never lived there. You can smile and nod and proceed to drag out an excuse as to why you haven't bothered to make it to the other side of the country, yet you've made it to Europe/Asia/America and loved it so much.
3. You can't bag Perth if you're not currently living there. You must relay fond and nostalgic memories of it and act like the WA Tourism Board.

So there you go, I just thought I'd put it out there. You can't expect everyone to know the rules. But now everyone does. No excuses now.