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Re:The Most Expensive Cities in the World by whatusername on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @12:45AM (#1195027)
Sydney (which was a penal colony) doesn't count as having a "criminal history"?
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Re:The Most Expensive Cities in the World by electromagnetic on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @06:20PM (#1196973)
Yes, because the presence of a Mafia in an area is really the same as the presence of a prison. That's outstanding logic!
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Re:The Most Expensive Cities in the World by whatusername on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @10:38PM (#1197551)
was, not has.

You do realise that Australia was originally founded as a penal colony. And that about 50% of the First Fleet (thus 50% of the entire colony/city) were convicts. Wiki tells me that about 165,000 convicts were sent here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convicts_in_Australia

Every city on the list has a prison. Not many of them were originally intended to be a prison.

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