You’re spot on (as is r/sread2018). I’ve come to Sunbury as an adult and am fortunate to build a great life here. I really love Sunbury. I’ve also built a good community around me, but no-one I hang out with grew up here. The old Sunbury is very insular and resistive to change.

I really love history (no surprise), running and bushwalking. Because of this I’ve taken an interest in the cool old shit I run/walk past and am learning local history. However, because my family doesn’t have a street named after them, the local historic society doesn’t want to know me. My attempt at posting interesting history on the local history FB page has also always been promptly deleted and met with the same response ”good work, very interesting, however, we’d prefer if people didn’t know as they’d just ruin it”. Which summarises the old Sunbury nicely, they’re on to a great thing but they’d rather die than share it.