Why does brisbane get refered to as "Brisvegas"????

Question

Im from perth,when Talking to people online, and i ask them what part of aus they are from, they tell me Brisvegas!?!?!

i have heard it sooo many times, and dont get it, i keep getting different reasons... but all of them dont really make sense and just sound dumb...

please, tell me why it is so!!!!!

Answer 1

Surely no intelligent Brisbaneite would claim to be from Yech!! Brisvegas. What an appalling name! It bears no relationship to anything about Brisbane and I, and everyone I know, hates the name with a passion. Brisbane is an attractive, laid back, sub-tropical city with friendly people and ideal living conditions - nothing like Las Vegas, thank goodness.

Answer 2

Probably because Brisbane is all flashy and pretty lights but maybe not so beautiful by daylight.  With so much American culture pervading the world through the media it is not surprising that Australians describe their own regions in terms they are familiar with.

Answer 3

Brisbane is probably not less boring than Perth, so if they have casinos there, they probably in their own dillussionary way imagine that they are like vegas.  It's all part of the inferiority complex Australians have about an insignificant, mostly arid, drout ridden, uninhabital interior country in the far off regions of asia pacific with a large european and multicultural population that hate each other.! masquerading as a society. My kids are australian and I grew up there or should I say existed as a teenager, boy was I glad to go to America after that. I don't understand why people rave over australia....stinking heat and ozone disaster......more poisonous snakes, spiders and other horrible things than any place on earth.! including jellyfish, poison rocks, etc and an alchoholically motivated bunch of violent morons.......especially the gold coast south of brisbane which is infested with druggies and outa work bums.!That's probably why they refer to it as brisvegas....they wish they were like Vegas....in their dreams....forget it!

Answer 4

yeah i live here & it does sound dumb

i think some radio station started it

Answer 5

Cause they think Brissy is all glitzy and glamourous,,when in reality its the ar*e hole of the coast strip there.

Answer 6

A lot of places in Australia are given Americanised nicknames as they remind people of the equivalent weather or attraction in an American town or region.

Brisbane has a casino so they call it Bris Vegas.

The Gold coast is called Australia's Miami because everyone there is retired and old.

WA has the same weather and culture as California beaches so it's called Western California.

Melbourne is where all the people leave from to retire north, so it's called Mexico.

Answer 7

omg, fantazam is so bloody right. the whole country has an inferiority complex, and must rush to its defence anytime the name of the dam country is even mentioned in any way, shape or form!. multi cultural  society who hate each other so true again.

finaly someone who speaks the truth!