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Clearly a better place to live???.........Australia is a good place to live, but to call it "clearly a better place".....I would strongly disagree.
Location within both countries would play a major roll in such a conclusion.
So true. We all know that one should take these rankings with a grain of salt. There are several different surveys and they weigh different factors and they always come up with different cities on the top 10 list. Even the same organiztion conducting a survey can come up with drastic differences from one year to next. As an example, if you look at the Times Economic Unit surveys of top global universities Uni Adelaide was low 100s one year and the next it was 68! Adelaide as a city was top 10 a few years back, then it moved down and all of a sudden it is back in the top 10. The only change I had seen in that time period was the Glenelg tram now being extended onto North Terrace towards UNISA. And I was not happy the day I went to get a pie floater after a night at the Exeter to find the pie carts were removed; I'd knock points off Adelaide for insensitivity towards a SA heritage icon! LOL.
One's best bet is to find your happy place and to avoid making blanket statements, else one comes across with a chip on one's shoulder or worse.. someone with a roo lost in their top paddock.
Any place in the top dozen or so places would be pretty good for the most part, imo. The scores so close at that point as to make little real difference.
And I was not happy the day I went to get a pie floater after a night at the Exeter to find the pie carts were removed; I'd knock points off Adelaide for insensitivity towards a SA heritage icon! LOL.
OMG....that brings back such good memories. We always went to the pie cart on North Terrace in front of the train station for a pie floater after a night out on the town.....which was usually about 3am. I was a young buck in those days...
I was sooooo p*$$** off the day it wasn't there........and then....
Hey Minx! I'm thinking you've probably got lots of snow around your place .... lucky you!!! We're roasting here in Perth and I'm really not liking it.
Today is not a good day to talk about snow.....I had to walk half a mile through knee deep snow because someone forgot to plow their drive way, and spent 3 hours shoveling decks....and when I got home my wife said "want to go snowmobiling tonight?" (it was the annual moonlight ride tonight). I just crashed on the sofa and fell asleep....lol....
Today is not a good day to talk about snow.....I had to walk half a mile through knee deep snow because someone forgot to plow their drive way, and spent 3 hours shoveling decks....and when I got home my wife said "want to go snowmobiling tonight?" (it was the annual moonlight ride tonight). I just crashed on the sofa and fell asleep....lol....
minx.. next time you are home, the 24 hour bakery on O'Connell in north Adelaide always has pie floaters.. yum... Do you miss Farmers Union Ice Coffee? Gelato at Cibo's? And the list could go on..
And here in southern NH seacoast.. no snow. We have grass. NYc had 21 inches of power in the last 2 days. We had 2 storms this year then warm temps. I just bought snow shoes and they are collecting dust. Who knew I'd have to go SOUTH for snow? And NYC of all places!
Today is not a good day to talk about snow.....I had to walk half a mile through knee deep snow because someone forgot to plow their drive way, and spent 3 hours shoveling decks....and when I got home my wife said "want to go snowmobiling tonight?" (it was the annual moonlight ride tonight). I just crashed on the sofa and fell asleep....lol....
Oh yeah, I forgot about that part .... the dreaded shoveling!!
But the way it's been lately here (heatwave), I'd still gladly do some snow shoveling instead of this. It'd be okay if I had time to just loll about at the beach or in the pool, but we're busy fixing things around the house. Even with aircon, you still feel the heat. It just radiates inwards through the single-paned windows and the walls.
Clearly a better place to live???.........Australia is a good place to live, but to call it "clearly a better place".....I would strongly disagree.
Location within both countries would play a major roll in such a conclusion.
The US sucks, I just went there and me and my fiancee had a horrible time. I have a much better feeling about Australia's next 20 years than I do about America's. I am from California, which was once a kind of paradise that turned into an overdeveloped and polluted hell hole. America is better if you are Rupert Murdoch or someone wealthy LOL. Murdoch dropped his Aussie citizenship and lives in the US. Paul Hogan also lives in the US because he cheated the ATO out of the millions he made in Hollywood.
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.....Australia is a good place to live, but to call it "clearly a better place".....I would strongly disagree.
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