Originally Posted by sprintman (Post 7245953)

Kristo you don't get it. Like any ex South Australian I've met we get over it almost immediately. Just wish I could have escaped earlier but hindsight is a wonderful thing..

Originally Posted by sprintman (Post 7235502)

Exactly and very well said. Why Brits aim at SA and WA has the average Australian amazed, myself included (I'm English).

Originally Posted by sprintman (Post 7246871)

Somebody else who 'get's it'

Originally Posted by mr mover (Post 7247251)

So you are a city dweller , you dont go outside the city......?
Have you seen what the rest of South Australia has to offer..?
Have you seen the Blue lake in Mt Gambier or the Sink holes and the many caves , The world renowend , Naracoorte caves ........?
The coorong, paddle boats on the murray..?
The Barrossa ,Mclarenvale .Clare valley, coonawarra, Wine regions....?
The flinders ranges , Arkaroola.....Wilpena pound...?
Kangaroo island ,one of the only places in the world ,that has not changed in 40,000 years ......need i go on. ?? .............there is more to Sth Australia than Adelaide.........wake up sun shine....:rofl:mm

Originally Posted by sprintman (Post 7247279)

God your a dumb *****! I'm an ex Croweater. There are better places to live in Oz, what part of that can you not get your simple brain around?

Originally Posted by _debs_ (Post 7244458)

Unless you're moving from one of the large conurbations (London, Birmingham or Manchester) in the UK then this place isn't as small as people make out

Sorry, dont agree, we came from a small market town in the north of England, and still found there is more to do here than in Adelaide.

You are missing my point. Nowhere did I comment on where is more interesting or that there's more to do in Adelaide compared with elsewhere in the world. I'm simply commenting on the scale of the place.

Given your ages you can give Adelaide a go for a couple of years and if it doesn't suit move on to somewhere else in Oz, as pompeyblond's in the process of doing.

Originally Posted by sprintman (Post 7247336)

Oh for god's sake it's a shit hole. Move on and get a real life.

Originally Posted by SNH (Post 7246669)

Exactly.

I am Australian-born, and have many Australian family members. Nobody I know can understand why these two destinations are so popular with people from Britain.

They are at the bottom of most Australians' lists of places they would want to be.

An equivalent comment from someone from the UK who lives outside London would be why do all Australians who are in the UK live in London (before I get a witty response from someone who knows an Australian who lives happily in Whitby, please note I am generalising). When I lived in the UK you could not have paid me to live there, but each to their own - I have no problem with the place, but I wouldn't choose to live there.

Isolation in Australia is very different to isolation in Britain - the distances are massive (and travel is expensive).

Recently I had a German friend come to visit Australia. She hated Sydney, though had allocated quite some time to visit the place. She said that she had not realised Australian cities would not be like European cities (though she probably should have!!). She was not expecting there to be little in the way of cultural activities and attractions. These problems can be solved - more or less - with proximity to other places. Neither Western Australia nor Adelaide offer this.