podgypossum

Isn't it great to have positive information on where you live? Makes ME feel good anyway

Megalania

"The study's basis for comparison was the after-tax cost of start-up and operation for 12 types of business, over a 10-year span."

"The KPMG analysis is based on cost information collected primarily between April and November 2003."

bondipom

IMO Brisbane is going to be the big growth area. It shouldn't bother Adelaide though as infrastructure has to be paid for with the the growth. The cost factors are 1 of many important business considerations.

South Western Sydney is an example of not providing the infrastructure needed for growth.

I do have 2 problems with the report (My Sydney parochialism has other probs with Adelaide). The main problem is that it focuses on the cost of doing business. As the current outsourcing to India demonstrates cost is not always the best basis for sustainable economic growth.

The other problem I have is all the regional development agency logos at the bottom of the web page. It stinks of being written for a political agenda.

podgypossum

When you came to Adelaide BP..how long were you here for, and where did you stay?

bondipom

My knowledge is second hand from people with similiar outlooks to myself. The feedback from non Australian non Adelaiders has to be taken with a pinch of salt so I rely on Poms or people who have lived there. I nearly booked a flight there to visit the sister in law and go to Kangaroo Island but then I spotted the Alice Special.

Sounds great for young families.

The company I work for recently shut the Adelaide office (to save money) and a few of them have moved here. Their problem being finding work in their field. There is still a manufacturing facility but the future of that is uncertain.

They were very positive about the place and sad it did not offer them any opportunity in their highly specialised field. They weren't that keen on the size of Sydney.

There was another positive I heard the other day about Adelaide

It has the most restaurants per head of all the capital cities (from that show where contestants are starting restaurants). The comment about Brisbane was they wanted to move away from seafood platter for 2.

MrsDagboy

I just bought a kilo & a half of king prawns, 3 fillets of Golden Snapper, a kilo of shelled green kings & 250g of tasmanian scallops with roe on. Cost $68. So whos coming for dinner?

podgypossum

Oooooooh...on my way!!

Could make a wonderful seafood laksa out of that lot!!

nzpenguin

So why aren't there ever any jobs advertised in Adelaide, then??? We'd love to move there, have visited and am seriously envious of you pp, but whenever I look, there's one maybe two jobs in hubby's field advertised. We'd have to go to Sydney or Melbourne. And I know several other people in IT have said the same here on the forum.

penguin - wishing she were sitting in Glenelg with a cold glass of something in her hand

podgypossum

Hi Penguin

I know what you mean....i have noted that a lot of the jobs on offer here are listed in the local newspapers.

Its very difficult when you are not in Oz to apply for stuff and get a feel for things.

I don't know what else to suggest other than keep trying!!!

mr mover

one way to kill a restaurant, in Adelaide is to make it, a BYO most sth aussies are fairly smart when it comes to wine, so a eatery with out a wine list will fail....... MM

nzpenguin

Hi PP,

that's def true, about not being there. It just really obvious when checking all the online job sites that there are loads and loads more IT jobs in Sydney and Melbourne. I know, obviously, but it's just really puzzling, to us at least, that there are so few in Adelaide. But maybe, as you write, they're more to be found in the print media than on the online ones.

penguin

jasper pentop

Adelaide is a beautiful city - and affordable compared to the big cities on the east coast which are generally over run by tourists. The people are also wonderful friendly, its a great place!!! (and no I am not biased at all!!!)