You know you're from Goulburn when you:

1. Drive around the block until you get a park outside the mall
2. Fight for a park under the shade at Woolworths on a hot day
3. Go on dinner dates in the South Maccas parking lot
4. Buy booze from one of the many drive-in liquor stores
5. Take out-of-towners to see the rear end of the Big Merino
6. Wear your ugg boots out in public
7. Spend the day at the mall because your air-con is broken
8. Get take away and eat it in Belmore Park
9. Wear thongs all year round
10. Head 'down the coast' or 'up the coast' for holidays
11. Used to attend pool parties at the Goulburn public pool as a child
12. Head to Paradise Place to look at Christmas lights
13. Have KFC as a picnic
14. Think your weekend isn't complete without a Bunnings' sausage sizzle
15. Remember swimming down at 'The Rock'
16. Rode your scooter down the 'Big Dipper' as a kid
17. Chuck laps of the main street with your music loud
18. Drive to Marsden Weir to look at flood waters
19. Ever bought a pet from Tommy Elliot's Pet store
20. Call Flamingos the 'bird', 'dirty bird' or 'dingoes'

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