Where in Australia would you live if your job only required an internet connection?
Jan 7th 2014 | 3:24 pm
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Re: Where in Australia would you live if your job only required an internet connectio
Not to mention the clobbering you take at the supermarket checkout and shopping mall. It's like Norway, but without the sovereign oil fund.
Manufacturing, btw, accounts for only about 8% of Australian GDP, but it contracted throughout 2013 and there's little expectation that things will improve in 2014 when people will be looking to it to pick up the slack as the resources boom fades.
GM-Holden was sustained for too long by government subsidies.
OP is right. Australia should have been more frugal, though the superannuation plan is a decent - if belated - start.
Manufacturing, btw, accounts for only about 8% of Australian GDP, but it contracted throughout 2013 and there's little expectation that things will improve in 2014 when people will be looking to it to pick up the slack as the resources boom fades.
GM-Holden was sustained for too long by government subsidies.
OP is right. Australia should have been more frugal, though the superannuation plan is a decent - if belated - start.
Jan 7th 2014 | 5:42 pm
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Re: Where in Australia would you live if your job only required an internet connectio
Not to mention the clobbering you take at the supermarket checkout and shopping mall. It's like Norway, but without the sovereign oil fund.
Manufacturing, btw, accounts for only about 8% of Australian GDP, but it contracted throughout 2013 and there's little expectation that things will improve in 2014 when people will be looking to it to pick up the slack as the resources boom fades.
GM-Holden was sustained for too long by government subsidies.
OP is right. Australia should have been more frugal, though the superannuation plan is a decent - if belated - start.
Manufacturing, btw, accounts for only about 8% of Australian GDP, but it contracted throughout 2013 and there's little expectation that things will improve in 2014 when people will be looking to it to pick up the slack as the resources boom fades.
GM-Holden was sustained for too long by government subsidies.
OP is right. Australia should have been more frugal, though the superannuation plan is a decent - if belated - start.
A successful economy comes at a price
We can compare ourselves to Norway in many ways
Jan 7th 2014 | 8:01 pm
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Re: Where in Australia would you live if your job only required an internet connectio
Jan 7th 2014 | 11:28 pm
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Re: Where in Australia would you live if your job only required an internet connectio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_wealth_fund
Incredible. That's what a country of just 5 mln people can achieve by not allowing others to plunder their nation.
Incredible. That's what a country of just 5 mln people can achieve by not allowing others to plunder their nation.
Jan 7th 2014 | 11:29 pm
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Re: Where in Australia would you live if your job only required an internet connectio
Jan 7th 2014 | 11:35 pm
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Re: Where in Australia would you live if your job only required an internet connectio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_wealth_fund
Incredible. That's what a country of just 5 mln people can achieve by not allowing others to plunder their nation.
Incredible. That's what a country of just 5 mln people can achieve by not allowing others to plunder their nation.
We can compare ourselves to Norway in many ways
Jan 7th 2014 | 11:36 pm
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Re: Where in Australia would you live if your job only required an internet connectio
They pay a lot of tax, but don't mind. In fact I have a successful buddy in Norway who wishes he could pay more tax. Not kidding.
Jan 8th 2014 | 8:25 pm
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Re: Where in Australia would you live if your job only required an internet connectio
I'm not using Norway as an example of what we should be doing, I'm only saying that they sure know how to make the most of their natural resources by not letting corporations just grab what they want in return for a shovel and a paycheck.
Jan 17th 2014 | 11:40 am
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Re: Where in Australia would you live if your job only required an internet connectio
Thinking of returning to Australia after many, many years, but I'm split between living in Sydney which is where all of my family is from, and trying something new now that my job is mainly done via the internet.
To be honest I haven't travelled much in Australia apart from Sydney and Canberra, so I don't have much to go on.
But it's basically for me, my wife and kids, so nothing too remote or far away from civilisation.
I was thinking either Queensland or really taking the plunge and giving Darwin a try. Any thoughts?
To be honest I haven't travelled much in Australia apart from Sydney and Canberra, so I don't have much to go on.
But it's basically for me, my wife and kids, so nothing too remote or far away from civilisation.I was thinking either Queensland or really taking the plunge and giving Darwin a try. Any thoughts?
Jan 17th 2014 | 2:22 pm
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Re: Where in Australia would you live if your job only required an internet connectio
I haven't read the whole thread but have you said what kind of internet you need? If connecting your computer up to the web via a baked bean can and string will do they you will be ok pretty much anywhere in oz. If you want something good enough for proper teleconferencing then your stuffed, unless you are living right next door to a decent exchange in one of the cities and even then it's a lottery. Oh and don't forget the cost, internet isn't free here like back home.
