SA Footy

It's too hard here.

Queensland...?

Good luck guys.

When I sell up I am going to Victor.

Looking at investment properties.

Dog_ger2 wrote:It's too hard here.

Queensland...?

Good luck guys.

When I sell up I am going to Victor.

Looking at investment properties.

I am too, not seriously though. My mate in IT is also trying to convince his missus to go to Melbourne.

I've told everyone I know that I'm going to tell my kids when they get old enough to move to Vic or Sydney to get ahead in life. Being in Adelaide is akin to committing career suicide.

Depends on your career

If you need a "Head Office" to climb through the ranks do not stay in SA.

It's all relative. Cost of living here is lower than the other states. Me, I wouldn't live in Sydney if you tripled my income. Full of Sydney wankers. Melbourne, maybe, but I hate Melbourne weather. Brisbane, possibly, I like Brisbane. Perth would be my pick, but the boom has come and gone and now Perth is just mega expensive to buy property, eat, shop, etc etc.

Depending on what you do, what your goals are in life, I couldn't think of a better place to live than Adelaide.

Booney wrote:I wouldn't live in Sydney if you tripled my income. Full of Sydney wankers.

Agreed. Sydney is a pain to get around in. If you live anywhere west of the CBD and want to go to the beach on the weekend then be prepared to spend absolutely all day getting there, finding a park, doing your beachy thing, and the getting home.

Sydney fans will probably beg to differ, but I've always found Sydney to be a bit culturally barren, very different to Melbourne. It's also full of non-Sydney wankers who think Sydney is the place to be simply because it's Sydney, which probably has something to do with the lack of culture.

Cost of living is far to expensive in Sydney. I'd definitely need at least 10% more income to keep me there

woodublieve12 wrote:Cost of living is far to expensive in Sydney. I'd definitely need at least 10% more income to keep me there

You will need more than 10% more....

Booney wrote:It's all relative. Cost of living here is lower than the other states. Me, I wouldn't live in Sydney if you tripled my income. Full of Sydney wankers. Melbourne, maybe, but I hate Melbourne weather. Brisbane, possibly, I like Brisbane. Perth would be my pick, but the boom has come and gone and now Perth is just mega expensive to buy property, eat, shop, etc etc.

Depending on what you do, what your goals are in life, I couldn't think of a better place to live than Adelaide.

^ What he said, almost to the letter.

A few years back I was on a Jetstar flight (which is a peeve in itself, but belongs on another thread) returning from the Sunshine Coast via Sydney. I got stuck next to a couple of overweight boorish yobbos who spent the flight attempting to be funny to each other. The limited conversation I had with one of them went as follows.

Arsehole: Where are you headed?
Me: Adelaide.
Arsehole: Oh, don't get off there.
Me: I live there.
Arsehole: You know what Adelaide is, don't you? Proof Tasmanians can swim.

At which point I smiled politely and gave a token chuckle, resisting the urge to reply with "Well if you don't go to Adelaide then the place has at least one thing going for it". That is a general truth: All the arseholes in the country avoid Adelaide as if it was suffering a plague. Let those chauvinists stay in their Eastern State Shitholes. This goes a long way towards making Adelaide the best city to reside in.

The best thing to come out of Sydney is the road back to Adelaide.

Gotta say at present im not supposed to mention the word that starts with W and ends in K .
I'm told at present they are watching what I say .
It does raise the issue I'm for a better term in the workforce a shit kicker .
Can't get higher where I work I'm about to turn 53
Assuming I'll get back to my job which I've held for 21 and a bit years .
Previously over years I've asked to be moved to another team while still manual shit it's easier on my aging body.
After 20 knock backs 20 different reasons of bull I stopped asking .
So yeah does a 53 to shir kicker stay here
Could he find another crappy job in Melbourne
Does make one think
Cause end of the day as long as the employer pays me it's the only thing that matters and I don't mean 79 cents a week into my super I've got the last two weeks oops not supposed to write that lmao

Yep so could an old shitkicker find work interstate

In 2008 I had a choice...
I could sell my rather large Federation style house on 4 acres in Olinda and move to a good sized but smaller unit in Melbourne's Southbank, or I could live in the Adelaide hills with space in the house and around me.

Fresh air, koalas in my backyard, Kookaburras calling in the morning, 9 minutes to the Toll Gate, 16 to the CBD (so long as I avoid peak hour - which I can).
Glenelg half and hour away, Semaphore just under an hour, and all my old school and university friends and the pubs, restaurants, and coffee places we meet at relatively nearby.

What's to decide?

Mickyj wrote:Gotta say at present im not supposed to mention the word that starts with W and ends in K .

I'm glad I'm not the only one who gave it up for the New Year!

Booney wrote:It's all relative. Cost of living here is lower than the other states. Me, I wouldn't live in Sydney if you tripled my income. Full of Sydney wankers. Melbourne, maybe, but I hate Melbourne weather. Brisbane, possibly, I like Brisbane. Perth would be my pick, but the boom has come and gone and now Perth is just mega expensive to buy property, eat, shop, etc etc.

Depending on what you do, what your goals are in life, I couldn't think of a better place to live than Adelaide.

Good post. I hate Sydney, wouldn't live there full stop. Balmain is a great spot but like I can afford to live in a shoe box. Lively little pocket of Mile End ambience with some great pubs. Good place to visit but no way would I live there. Perth is great but yeah, too expensive for everything and I can see the place going belly up in the next couple of decades. Brisbane, I don't like Brisbane at all and I moved up to Queensland. A poorly designed city with a horrible public transport system. I live in Ipswich which is half country and half city is very Adelaide like in it's ways but it has un-Adelaide like Housing prices. I was astounded to see the price of housing in my home town. I'm not sure how it can be justified when wages and opportunities are more limited.

I am a hundred percent sure I've made the right move for my career, financial prospects and family. I now own a house (well the bank does LOL) and I'm earning nearly triple what I was when I lived in Adelaide although that was 11 years ago now. However, people up here aren't as good as people in South Australia. There is an old saying that Qld is great except for the Qlders and there is an element of truth in that. My best friends are still South Australians with a couple of exceptions. Even my best friends are fellow ex-Croweaters.

I come home quite regularly (not always for happy occasions mind you) and the old burg hasn't changed all that much but it does seem to be a more lively place than it was when everything stopped for ten years after the State Bank Disaster. The new oval, hospital and the development of the University district is all very good and unlike some older South Australians I don't mind what they've done at Glenelg...come on...how often did you all go to Magic Mountain towards the end?

If you are a South Australian I would suggest Melbourne would be the best destination if you wanted to retain some of the Adelaide lifestyle but not put up with Summers full of monsoon like storms, paying through the nose for everything or putting up with pretentious wankers. You've got the right kind of Footy plus any sport or concert event you'd want. Feeling homesick? 700ks a doddle compared to the 2000 I'm looking at.

regards,

REB

Outsiders always say 'what's there to do in Adelaide'? Adelaide's two strengths are it's people and the fact that the city and surrounds are a hidden secret. The people are Adelaide's strength. Gathering around a Barbie or sinking a few Schooners in the bar and just 'kickNback' and doing things at our own pace or own way. Wankers who bag Adelaide come to town acting all superior and quite rightly the locals don't give them the time of day..thus making Adelaide 'a shithole' because who is going to recommend their favourite haunts to an arsehole? If you come to town with an open mind they simply can't walk away from the city with that attitude. Someone calls Adelaide a hole they are admitting publicly that they are a pretentious arsehole...like Baz Luhrman.

Adelaide shouldn't chase Sydney or Melbourne because all that will get the city is turn it into another Brisbane (don't rate the place at all) which is in fact a junior Sydney. Adelaide would just be a junior Melbourne and risk all it has going for it and still fail to match what Melbourne does already.

regards,

REB

Rik E Boy wrote:Outsiders always say 'what's there to do in Adelaide'? Adelaide's two strengths are it's people and the fact that the city and surrounds are a hidden secret. The people are Adelaide's strength. Gathering around a Barbie or sinking a few Schooners in the bar and just 'kickNback' and doing things at our own pace or own way. Wankers who bag Adelaide come to town acting all superior and quite rightly the locals don't give them the time of day..thus making Adelaide 'a shithole' because who is going to recommend their favourite haunts to an arsehole? If you come to town with an open mind they simply can't walk away from the city with that attitude. Someone calls Adelaide a hole they are admitting publicly that they are a pretentious arsehole...like Baz Luhrman.

Adelaide shouldn't chase Sydney or Melbourne because all that will get the city is turn it into another Brisbane (don't rate the place at all) which is in fact a junior Sydney. Adelaide would just be a junior Melbourne and risk all it has going for it and still fail to match what Melbourne does already.

regards,

REB

Great posts, REB.

Pseudo wrote:

Mickyj wrote:Gotta say at present im not supposed to mention the word that starts with W and ends in K .

I'm glad I'm not the only one who gave it up for the New Year!

Never actually said I gave it up . Not sure what's totally going on with the W word .
I'm still on the books getting 79 cents a week for my super
More than that I can't say except not on workcover yet seems the insurer has only had since
October 21 or 22 to make a decision. My lawyer isn't happy with that oh the W word now knows I have a lawyer

Me I'm still living a mystery no idea what's going on except I'm still unfit to work due to an accident at a work function I was sober at .
Funny a report says I was drunk paramedics blood test says I was sober

See no one knows I also got PTA that night

Mickyj wrote:

Pseudo wrote:

Mickyj wrote:Gotta say at present im not supposed to mention the word that starts with W and ends in K .

I'm glad I'm not the only one who gave it up for the New Year!

Never actually said I gave it up . Not sure what's totally going on with the W word .
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Sorry Micky, that joke seems to have gone over your head. Explanation:

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=37515&start=100#p2050433

I never thought I'd leave Adelaide, but left in 1995 to move to Melbourne. Now I couldn't imagine living anywhere else. To me it's like Adelaide but bigger and with more to do The only real pain about Melbourne is the traffic, but that's why you have trams.
I visit Perth occasionally due to the in laws being there. Nice place to visit but too many rednecks for this old punk. Brisbane....pass for similiar reasons. And Sydney is best summed up by TISM in this ......... (Also we got rid of Kennett )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjU6DAcWAjU

Pseudo wrote:

Mickyj wrote:

Pseudo wrote:

Mickyj wrote:Gotta say at present im not supposed to mention the word that starts with W and ends in K .

I'm glad I'm not the only one who gave it up for the New Year!

Never actually said I gave it up . Not sure what's totally going on with the W word .
...

Sorry Micky, that joke seems to have gone over your head. Explanation:

http://safooty.net/forum/viewtopic.php? ... 0#p2050433

Lol at me seems a lot is at present haha