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Brisbane, state capital of Queensland
Nickname for Brisbane, Queensland
In the early 90s, Brisbane was just starting to wake up from being a sleepy big country town. The alternative scene of musos and general party animals still saw the town as the aforementioned sleepy big country town where restaurants shut early and pubs closed at midnight. To take the mickey they started to nickname their town ‘BrisVegas’ because it was nothing like the 24 hour American party city. The nickname stuck, and as Brisbane emerged as a modern city sometimes the origins of this nickname as mistaken and taken to mean that Brisbane was likened to Las Vegas – when it was the opposite.
a term used to describe brisbane by other countries. however, no person who lives in brisbane (aka ‘brisbanite’) actually calls it that, nor do they know that it is even called ‘brisvegas’.
BrisVegas: refers the the sticky floors, the ‘seen better days’ decor, the overweight ‘bottle-blondes’ the overly tanned white folks with big gold jewelry, the wanna-be’s mingling with the nouveau-riche, the tacky architecture. The previous definitions are completely wrong. A perfect well-to-do BrisVegan example is Kerry-Anne Kennerly. Big, bold-as-brass, fun, but not sophisticated.