There are (a lot of) towns. So that means jobs. Of course not so much for professionals(?) but enough for things like builders, brickies, plumbers, nurses...

I'm especially referring to the southwest and towns like Bunbury, Busselton, Manjimup, Albany.
And also the towns around Perth.
If people are going for space, less crime, less traffic etc I don't understand why practically everyone is heading for the cities.
Of course people with other types of jobs I understand. And people with friends or family there. And the young people (under 30?)
I guess that's nearly everyone then!

Cross your eyes:
Mount Newman - Western Australia

Kalbarri national park
The Ningaloo reef
coral bay
90 mile beach
shark bay
Walpole tree top walk
two days worth of driving through forrest, wineries, inlets and gorges down south

Just to skim the suface WBB, its beautiful and will be the place i visit most from here!

Paul,
Just put "Perth tree surgeon" into googles search bar. Quite a bit is found.

but that's my point, it's a nice place to visit but apart from perth would you want to live there?

yes!!
if we could get a decent job and all my family hadn't buggered off overhere

i rest my case.

Of course, if you're in mining etc etc, WA is one of the places to be; Newman, Port Hedland, Kalgoorlie, and all the smaller places(Greenbushes in the south has a tin mine I think.) Ok, looked it up, found this:
http://www.southwestlife.com.au/enterprise1102.htm

Of course timber is very big down there too, and tourism!
And the greenies who protest against all the woodchipping of the old forests (well, that was going on a while back when we lived there)

Too right, Gypsey - I have just gotten the local (Cambridge) Neighborhood Watch newsletter. Scary reading - drug related crime, violence & burglary is frighteningly rife here. We'd be safer living in downtown LA .

East Anglia is getting to be quite a rough place IMO. Just think what it'll be like when we get the 90000 extra houses they want to build round here.... good time to leave, I think.

Guess you get crime anywhere in the world, but my philosophy is: if I'm gonna be mugged, I'd rather it happened somewhere with better weather

Anya.

I just got my local neighbourhood watch letter and there was a grand total of ten crimes last month, 6 of them being thefts from motor vehicles. There were no "violent"crimes (well apart from the arson at the school which hasn't been listed yet )