Amazulu

Dream on Herman

I've got a UK passport

Thanks Dad!

Amazulu

So,
Is Calgary, a smaller city than Perth, reverting to a backwater?
Is Aberdeen, a smaller city than Perth, reverting to a backwater?

Or is it, in your hater mind, just Perth?

Your answer will be insightful

the troubadour

So, I'm afraid I haven't the time nor inclination to fill in all the gaps in your education.


I reserve my commentary to the place I am witnessing the unfolding of the resource boom at ground level.


Yes Calgary is feeling the pinch badly. Worse than Perth I can't size. All resource centres will be hit. WA having too many eggs in the same basket will fare badly.


Don't let the reality of the situation get in the way of perception though. I understand P f P types though understandably prefer denial.


Just maintain the ongoing hands over eyes and fingers firmly lodged in ears scenario on the hope that it will all go away.

the troubadour

Herman apparently strikes a cord with you. A former boyfriend perhaps, whose name you can't get out of your head?


Is a UK passport meant to impress? I'm sure you know the name in Afrikaans for those that fled.

the troubadour

Well not always depending on how switched on with finger on pulse of the situation, I'd say.


Where you need to treat with caution are official sources that for obvious reasons wish to talk up the market and situation.


I witnessed as much up north, where the deniers insisted all was tricky boo until the bitter end. Many lost a lot of money in investments.
Housing dropped in rent by 60% in the area I was. Prices followed.


Of course some prosper out of hard times. Others remain un impacted. Plenty of stats around showing less spending, more feelings of job insecurity, lowest wage rises in decades, and the like.


Always good to enter something knowing the facts. Perth was a definite boom town. It is no longer. The wind down continues.

Amazulu

But are Calgary and Aberdeen reverting to backwater status? That's the question I'm asking in response to your claim. If it's happening to Perth, is it also happening to these 2 very similar cities?

Your answer will be insightful

Amazulu

I've told you before

Herman the German

Do keep up

You were implying that I had few options because I have an SA passport and I'm telling you that you are ill informed. UK citizenship is a passport of convenience for me - nothing more, nothing less

Hope this helps

the troubadour

My answers are always insightful. If you want further information on those cities research them yourself. I stick with where I am and what I know on the ground. Neither those places has any interest to me.


Perth on the other hand, is showing definite signs of returning to branch office status or a return to what could be considered the norm.

the troubadour

Your mercenary credentials are well noted. One would expect little more.
Actually I'm very well informed but let that pass. Perhaps your studies will allow you a little more ability to develop an intellectual capacity that will warrant further debate, rather than ideological sound bites?

Amazulu

So in other words, it's just your hatred of Perth and Australia at work here. Nothing more, nothing less

Thought so Herman

the troubadour

In other words you remain clueless. I'm all for migration as you'll be aware, but allowing blow in's to take up residence whom pass silly comments on those of us in the know, and are purely here for self gratification , quite willing to leave at a shot, when the nation is shot, following their mercenary tendencies to another part of the world is quite frankly ridiculous.

Amazulu

And you were a 'blow in' to SA - why the hell did you even move there considering your politics and the fact that you hate the place?

You obviously hate Australia

Leave and go and live in a 'better' place where you will be happy. Life's too short to live somewhere that you don't enjoy

the troubadour

Well had little choice in the matter first time around. Second time around a bit like you in Australia, to practise being subversive of course.


I'll happily fill in your considerable gaps in knowledge on most issues related to ZA of course. Likewise with GB or Aus.


Your obviously clueless on a lot of the above.

the troubadour

Anyway how about returning to subject. That being Perth. This thread has been subverted by trivia of unrelated matters.


Anymore ideas by anyone on where Perth is heading?

Still Game

Yah. Would be more than appreciative of that!