I live across the pond, and though I love Hobart and tassie, intellectual is not exactly in the top 10 words I'd expect most people to use to describe most australian culture, let alone in its smaller cities.
Edit: which is mainly why I'm in Melbourne.
Edit2: though to be fair, looking at half the suggestions so far, no one seems to be taking said criteria very seriously.
Yeah, I was thinking of the "focus on my own intellectual pursuits" part of op's post. I imagined this to be something like writing open-source software, or doing math.
Edit: which is mainly why I'm in Melbourne.
Edit2: though to be fair, looking at half the suggestions so far, no one seems to be taking said criteria very seriously.