As the COVID-19 vaccination rollout continues, a residential divide over eligibility has left some in Adelaide's east frustrated.
Under SA Health guidelines, all South Australians 16 years and older who live in a regional council area are eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
Trent Stollery lives in Magill in the metropolitan Campbelltown City Council, about 1 kilometre away from the border with the regional Adelaide Hills Council.
Mr Stollery, 35, has been waiting to get vaccinated and has found watching the rollout from the other side of the regional border tough.
"It's frustrating," he said.
"I'd pay for it if I could do it."
Mr Stollery's wife has been vaccinated as a healthcare worker, but he has not been deemed eligible yet.
He said he was worried being unvaccinated could leave himself and his two young daughters exposed.
"My wife works in the health industry so she's exposed to everyone and her work is deemed necessary so even in lockdown she has to work," he said.
Mr Stollery spoke to his doctor about getting the AstraZeneca vaccine, but was advised to wait until he becomes eligible for Pfizer.
Mr Stollery said being vaccinated would provide "peace of mind" for his family.
"It'd be great," he said.
In the Adelaide Hills suburb of Crafers, a 20-minute drive from Magill, Polly Shaw will soon receive her second dose of the vaccine.
The 20-year-old checked the eligibility guidelines online and discovered she met a few of the criteria – she works with people with disability and lives in a regional council area.
She said the entire process from checking her eligibility to receiving the first dose of the vaccine was easy.
"It was super straightforward, super quick, no dramas there," she said.
Ms Shaw was grateful to have the vaccine and said she felt fine after her first dose.
"I was completely fine, just a little bit of tenderness in the arm but that's to be expected," she said.
Ms Shaw, who will need to do a placement in hospitals as part of her nursing studies, said she chose to be vaccinated not only for herself but for "herd immunity" and to protect the people she works with.
"In my line of work, some people with disability can't have it or it'd be too traumatic for them to go through a vaccine of any kind so if I'm going to be around them, I want to make sure I'm doing what is in their best interest for them," she said.
In the nearby Adelaide Hills suburb of Heathfield, Lauren Smith will receive her first dose of Pfizer on Thursday.
When the 22-year-old hospitality worker heard that regional South Australians aged 16 and over were eligible, she booked into her GP clinic to have the vaccine.
Ms Smith, who often works at private functions, said she wanted to be vaccinated to protect herself and others.
"It's more to protect me because I don't want to be at risk from working and obviously I have to work, I have to make a living," she said.
When Ms Smith and Ms Shaw receive their second doses, they will join a small group of young South Australians who have been fully vaccinated.
The most recent data from the Australian Immunisation Register, from July 4, showed 6 per cent of South Australians aged 20-29 had been fully vaccinated and 9 per cent had been partly vaccinated.
Ms Smith said she had heard mixed reports from others about feeling slightly unwell after their first doses, but it would not deter her from rolling up her sleeve.
"I'm a little bit nervous about getting a bit sick but at the end of the day if it stops me getting COVID and stops me spreading it to the other people … a little cold is nothing," she said.