Hoops

Adelaide - A Hole or not?

lol can’t please everyone!

Adelaide is the better of the cities to live, Sydney is a shocker, Melbourne is a good middle ground albeit cold. Perth is lovely but empty, Brisbane nice weather but not the biggest fan generally.

Hoops tradition demands that Perth posters gloat over all victories so I must mention that WA currently leads the nation in unemployment. SA is now 0.2% further back in equal 2nd place with Qld.

Number one baby yeah!

Surely it isn't as bad as Perth?

Oops, let's have another go shall we...

I have visited Adelaide and its surrounds twice now and although I haven't lived extensively in other cities I have visited and stayed for some periods in Aussie capital size cities of Perth, Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra and or course Melbourne often.

I found Adelaide kind of like a bigger version of Geelong which I am very familiar with and comparing Adelaide Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane isn't fair IMO as it is no where near the size of those massive cities.

Like Geelong, in some ways, Adelaide has its less exploited beaches and coastline, inland loaded with wine regions worth discovering and is not too bad to drive around in (no traffic issues like the big three I we seem to compare it with).

Sure, the city can be classed as boring to those who crave a little more crime, stress and in your face attitude from overcrowded & over expanded suburbia found in the big three, but like Geelong I found Adz (as some put it) to be a well kept secret and a bit of an unpolished jewel.

Having said that, I wouldn't leave Geelong to live in Adelaide, pro's and con's just don't add up, but there are many worse places out there, like Tamworth for example, now there's a hole (sorry guitar & horse lovers)...

Adelaide Escapee, I would be interested to hear of some examples of the actions of "horrible people" that have made it so hard for you to live in Adelaide.

Would you be so kind as to regale us with some funny tales?

Adelaide's a good ol' place
I ran away from it when I was 10, 12, 13, 15, 151/2, 17, an' 18
I been caught an' brought back all but once ...

It depends on what you want out of life. To some people Adelaide isn't exciting enough, for others, it is just right.

South Australia has always been the most conservative of the states and so the typical SA approach is more measured than the "shoot before I think" approach you find in other states like Queensland. Unfortunately, this means that capital development works take longer to implement, if at all. Having said that, we are a more innovate state than others. The O'Bahn system is a novel approach, and when traffic flows are dominated by timetables, we put in a single laned, reversible expressway which means all lanes are always full rather than one side being 100% full, the other 5% full for most of the day.

Australia is the most urbanised western country and the culture of Australia is dominated by two cities. One is a patch of sandstone around 50 km in radius, where 1 in 4 Australians "live" and the other is a sprawling expanse of boggy farmland where houses are now getting planted. Unfortunately, Adelaide gets caught in the crossfire and gets a beating from the Melbourne dominated media. After all, a clown like Rove is unlikely to slag off Melbourne in front of a latte sipping Melbourne audience. It is a sad fact of life that bullies feel better about themselves when they put others down. It is the bully that in fact has the issue and suffers low self esteem.

Melbourne has always been the economic and political centre of Australia.

There are pros and cons with every city. If being "trendy and cool" means paying $20 for a slice of toast with a bit of cheese on it, paying $5 for an insipid cold coffee served in a crappy 1960's chipped mug, paying $1,800/week rent for a crappy fibroboard 2 bedroom house with a leaking roof you only see on weekends because you waste 3 hrs travelling to work each day, or paying $200 for the privilege of attending a concert where some 20 something female American dresses up like a $5 blowjob hooker and uses profanities to impress a teenage girl crowd, well maybe Adelaide is a hole, and a hole worth calling home.

As a Tasmanian now living in Adz via some years in Qld, sometimes work over in the West:

In Melbs, Vegas and Syd. everything comes at you so you dont have to do too much work to find activity but getting there and back is a hassle and expensive. If you need to budget, your on a hiding to nothing.
There's a fair bit of "care factor nil" going on in the cities. Rural Qld has care, cheap beer, hard knocks, lowly IQ and no infrastructure.

Adz has one of everything, possibly the best value for your buck food, wine and fair beer courtesy of Coopers. Good access to sport / venues. You have to be in the know for clubs and music, so forced to work a bit here. Shopping - Go to Melbs.

Adz is the capital of moan which promotes Laissez faire. There is a reason asto why it is a half hour behind. My workers tell me this is a throw back to free settlers - they were unhappy somewhere else so got on a boat to S.A. and continued to be unhappy here. Everyone has a voice, but the down side is by the time every petty voice is heard, the moment has passed.

When S.Aussies actually does something, they do it very well. Its getting to the doing thats the issue.Given the pop. base, I agree, sport wise,they fght above their weight.

Tas. is they most visually beautiful area in Oz. The only place in Oz where you can get 4 seasons. It is comparatively fiscally poor and provides little for entertainment and employment if your 18 - 40. Its education base is also slipping. If you enjoy scenery, food & wine, its heaven. locals are direct and friendly.Breed like rabbits and send their bunnies off to populate other areas of Oz.

A short word on Perth - The locals perceive change with the influx of big bucks into the town. they say tt is becoming a bit more impersonal as cost of living continues to climb. P.S. W.A. is full of Tasmanian & South African ex pats. Normally the friendly town with weather and surf.