A Sydney woman has revealed the one word she was told not to say while on holiday in regional Australia.
Daphne Berry, a model from the Northern Beaches, was visiting a “tiny little country town” in Australia when a local struck up a conversation.
“Everybody obviously knows everybody because it’s a really small town,” she explained in a video.
“I’m walking down the street and somebody looks at me because I’m not from here. She was really lovely, she comes up to me and she was like: ‘Hey darl, how you going? Happy New Year’.”
The woman asked if Ms Berry had recently moved to town, to which she replied: “No, I’m actually from Sydney”.
At that moment, Ms Berry said, the woman’s eyes widened in shock.
“[I said:] ‘I’m so sorry, it’s just where I live’ and she goes: ‘We don’t say the S word around here’,” she recalled.
The woman then asked Ms Berry to tell Anthony Albanese “that it isn’t easy” when she returns home.
“I don’t know Albo personally. I live on the Northern Beaches of Sydney but if I make my way to Parliament House which is in Canberra … I’ll give him your regards,” she joked.
Other people from outside of Sydney took to the comments to share their agreement with the woman’s stance.
“I live in Brisbane and when I hear someone’s from Sydney I make that same face so I get it,” one person wrote.
“I live in one of those towns — mentioning Sydney OR Canberra gets that reaction,” joked another.
A third added: “You should’ve seen the looks I got when I said I was moving to Sydney from a small town!”