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Adelaide - a tourists perspective


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We met met a couple of tourists today and had quite a long chat with them whilst we were at the Semaphore Kite Festival.

They had been travelling around Europe and Australia and were absolutely in love with South Australia.

Here are some of the things they had to say about Adelaide:

-"every city has lots of things happening all the time, but everything is so accessible (due to it's size) here in Adelaide."

-"in other cities we found everyone always in a rush. When we wanted to get directions to places, people in other cities were always in a rush. Here in Adelaide, it was the complete opposite."

-"…in which city can you go to the beach, hills, cbd or the wine country in the morning, have a good time and then be back home in time for lunch?"

-"…we simply love the cafe culture here. Adelaide is not littered with fast food joints."

-"…..you have a much better quality of life here".

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Interesting feedback.

-"…in which city can you go to the beach, hills, cbd or the wine country in the morning, have a good time and then be back home in time for lunch?"

Cape Town ;)

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Interesting feedback.

Cape Town ;)

Melbourne :)

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Melbourne :)

Depends on which part of Melbourne one lives in :) In Adelaide, it does not matter where one lives.

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Cape Town ;)

Love CT. We lived there for a short while.

But from an overall day to day life style perspective, Adelaide anytime over CT.

South Australia is known as the Festival State and it sure lives unto this. There is always something happening somewhere and no matter where you live, it is no more than 30 to 45 mins away.

In March we had the Fringe, V8 Supercar races and quite a number of celebrity acts from overseas. My favourite was Bruno Mars.

Last weekend we had the Kite Festival and next weekend off to the Medieval Festival :)

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I must admit, I am a big fan of Adelaide. We looked a few times at moving there and the only thing that has kept us from moving there is lack of (decent) jobs in our fields.

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As an old timer living in the Adelaide Hills, I have to say that jobs would be a priority for most folk coming to Adelaide.

If you can score a reasonable job, then that could be the beginning to a lifestyle that's pretty hard to beat elsewhere.

Sure, I love to go to Brisbane where my youngest daughter lives, and hang out for a while there, but it does have its climatic excesses to deal with. When I lived there at the end of 1973 was just before the January floods which wiped out half the city. I mentioned this to a young friend of my daughter's two years ago and I could see she thought I was pulling her leg when I described how high the Brisbane River came to. Unfortunately, a few months later she was coping with the very situation I had described to her, as she was living in the same suburb (Indooroopilly) that I'd lived in.

Sydney is not a place I like very much. Too fast, too hectic. If you don't drive off in the time the bloke behind wants you to, you cop a toot from him / her. They are under pressure. My mate from PE went to visit his son and daughter-in-law, living on 400 sq metre patch of ground that cost them $1.4 million (R14 million). If you've got a spare few hundred thousand dollars hanging out of your back pocket, perhaps you can get on the Sydney property market. If you haven't, forget it. Life in Sydney will mean renting for a long, long time . . . all dead money.

The mining boom has propelled Perth to heights not unlike Sydney in property values and the old city centre I knew featuring the old sandstone colonial buildings are all gone. Chrome and glass buildings are all over the place in downtown Perth, giving me a feeling that its soul has been ripped out by the property developers over the past twenty or thirty years.

Melbourne is a delightful place to visit, but its climate leaves a bit to be desired. The three winter months have a lot of cloudy, depressing days to cope with, but at least the job situation there isn't bad at the moment.

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Adelaide is a lovely place. Popped in a few weeks ago and really enjoyed ourselves.

...Sure, I love to go to Brisbane where my youngest daughter lives, and hang out for a while there, but it does have its climatic excesses to deal with. When I lived there at the end of 1973 was just before the January floods which wiped out half the city. I mentioned this to a young friend of my daughter's two years ago and I could see she thought I was pulling her leg when I described how high the Brisbane River came to. Unfortunately, a few months later she was coping with the very situation I had described to her, as she was living in the same suburb (Indooroopilly) that I'd lived in.

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Before any worried future migrant thinks half of Brisbane went underwater I might mention there has been a huge dam built since 1974 so it took a 1 in a 100 year flood of epic proportions not seen since 1893 to approach the 1974 levels.

These mostly well defined floodlines affected 2-3% (around 18,000 private dwellings out of 820,000) of Brisbane's residential property (most flooding goes into reserved parks, golf courses etc) so in most cases a forewarned migrant can avoid these low lying properties next to the river in case another 1 in a 100 year flood comes along.

While it is definitely worth knowing about I wouldn't use it as a deciding factor when selecting a city to live. Personally I think the unavoidable weather, like the sometimes violent summer storms we get in Brisbane, or the occasionally extreme 40+ heatwaves you get in Adelaide, are a bigger weather factor than selective flooding.

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Adelaide is my all time favourite. Came here on a regional sponsored ( never having visited before) with the plan to move back to Sydney where my sister and parents now are. But I'm staying put and will travel a few times a year to visit. In the time it takes to find a parking (hardly ever free either) in Sydney, I could have cycled to the beach, had a dip and ridden back to my home nearer the CBD!

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