Quality of Living: Top 50 cities 2007

[chops_a_must]

2.2% unemployment rate.

I live 70 metres from the beach and pay $260.00 per week for a 4 X 2.

Reality check with the Perth (WA) housing prices. Nothing is moving and infact it is coming down.

Rubbish.

Mandurah's unemployment rate is still double that of the rest of WA. (http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/wa/content/2006/s1875864.htm) With youth unemployment anywhere between 20 and 30%.

It still has one of the highest crime rates, and lowest literacy and numeracy levels in Australia. All social indicators are negative when it comes to Mandurah.

The fact that house prices and rents are dipping before Perth indicates that there is not enough intrinsic wealth in Mandurah for continued growth, as ~ 50% of skilled workers in the Mandurah region come from outside of the district.

 

[Smurf1976]

Weather is relative though. Most people do not realise this.

If you live in Brisbane then you do not go to the beach in September when it is 26 degrees, you wait till it hits 30 in October.

If you live in Auckland and it is 22 degrees in December it is regarded as a nice day and off to the beach you go.

I know as I have lived in a few different cities including Brisbane and Auckland.

If you live in Canberra or Sydney and it is a cold day in August say 9 degrees, off to the snow you go.

If you lived in Canada and thought about going skiing when it is 9 degrees people would think you are crazy.

It seriously is relative, your body adjusts. If you think Brisbane or the Gold Coast is awesome to live in cause of the weather you are quite simply wrong.

Agreed. I've never forgotten being in Brisbane and hearing some group of women outside a nightclub at 3am saying "it's freezing". It was a nice, warm 21 degrees which I'm used to thinking of as being a maximum, not minimum, daily temperature. Needless to say I wasn't cold but they sure were - it's all relative.

 

[Julia]

Realist,

You're entirely welcome to everything to do with snow and cold weather generally. Some of us just simply hate it. It's not a matter of being/getting used to it at all. I lived all my life until 14 years ago in Christchurch, NZ where cold weather is a constant feature. The only plus I can find for it is the gorgeous flowers in spring and summer which follow the cold deadness of winter.

 

[IFocus]

It still has one of the highest crime rates, and lowest literacy and numeracy levels in Australia. All social indicators are negative when it comes to Mandurah.

I get Reelly upset wen people say these tings about us mob in Mandurah LOL.

Focus

 

[Kimosabi]

I get Reelly upset wen people say these tings about us mob in Mandurah LOL.

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Country Bumpkins

 

[insider]

Where's Cronulla?

 

[CanOz]

Agreed. I've never forgotten being in Brisbane and hearing some group of women outside a nightclub at 3am saying "it's freezing". It was a nice, warm 21 degrees which I'm used to thinking of as being a maximum, not minimum, daily temperature. Needless to say I wasn't cold but they sure were - it's all relative.

Northern China has just come out of one of the warmest winters in 50 years. It was 'relatvely' warmer, in that it didn't stay at -30 for more than a couple of days this time. NZ and Canada may get cold, but here it gets very cold, and dry.

This years winter was more like that i have experienced in Canada.

I love Australia's weather, even the rain. I always looked forward to the SA winters, cool and wet. Perfect to sit in by fire with a bottle of red and some cool tunes. Then i used to love the summer, Saturday mornings, washing the car, breakfast at the local cafe's while reading the big weekend papers.....

Nice memories.

Cheers,

 

[wayneL]

Realist,

You're entirely welcome to everything to do with snow and cold weather generally. Some of us just simply hate it. It's not a matter of being/getting used to it at all. I lived all my life until 14 years ago in Christchurch, NZ where cold weather is a constant feature. The only plus I can find for it is the gorgeous flowers in spring and summer which follow the cold deadness of winter.

Interesting that there are "weather people".

I hate the heat and love the change of seasons as you describe.

I can tolerate the heat knowing that colder weather is coming
I can tolerate the extreme cold knowing that warmer weather is coming lol

Change of colours, change of temperature... as long as the house is warm... bewdiful!

Where I live now is intolerable for me. Gimmme some COLD

 

[spottygoose]

If you think Brisbane or the Gold Coast is awesome to live in cause of the weather you are quite simply wrong.

Ha! Tell me that when I am sitting on my sunny balcony on the Gold Coast mid winter wearing a t-shirt and shorts!

 

[Realist]

Ha! Tell me that when I am sitting on my sunny balcony on the Gold Coast mid winter wearing a t-shirt and shorts!

Ha! t-shirts and shorts.

Ethiopians just wear a piece of grass around their waste - they have way way 'better' weather than you guys. Gee I wish I lived there!!



Bloody Queenslanders skiiting about their weather.

It is as logical as a Somalian telling someone from New York who's out shopping in the beautiful snow on xmas eve how much better their country is cause it is so damn hot.

 

[nizar]

Ha! t-shirts and shorts.

Ethiopians just wear a piece of grass around their waste - they have way way 'better' weather than you guys. Gee I wish I lived there!!



It is as logical as a Somalian telling someone from New York who's out shopping in the beautiful snow on xmas eve how much better their country is cause it is so damn hot.

Thats GOLD!!
LOL hahahahaa

 

[Smurf1976]

11.9 outside at the moment, 21.4 inside. Some of that Queensland heat wouldn't be so bad...

But then I'm hoping for snow this winter - I like variety.

 

[Realist]

I'm hoping for snow this winter - I like variety.

Good man.

There's nothing better than putting on a nice shirt, your leather jacket and best jeans, and wandering through the falling snow into a nice warm pub with an open fire and having a nice red wine, then a beautiful candle lit roast dinner.

It beats the hell out of putting on your shorts and thongs and having yet another bbq on the balcony, the 300th for the year so far.

Don't get me wrong, I love summer, I love the beach, I love bbqs - but all year round. No thanks.

 

[vishalt]

Perhaps some people just don't care what the weather is like?

lol what's that supposed to mean? Did you ever come to make the assertion that they actually enjoy the cold/snow/white-xmas/skiing climate?

 

[robandcoll]

chops_a_must
Sorry chops but you are well and trully uniformed and you need to be taken to task. 2.2% unemployment rate. My young bloke who is doing SWL in year 12 goes out every friday as a pre apprentice and earns $75.00 per day because they is not enough tradies down here.

We have a transit population of 1.2million per year. The WA Govt invested $400 million last year in infastructure. Looking at $550million this year.

Second fastest growing region in the world

No money - if you dont own 2 boats you are considered on the lower scale.
(heaps of aged care homes so that would drag the medium down I suspect)

2 private buses that ferry mine workers to Perth Airport and back daily

46% of students attend private schools because the State schools are at a catch up stage.

 

[Julia]

lol what's that supposed to mean? Did you ever come to make the assertion that they actually enjoy the cold/snow/white-xmas/skiing climate?

No, I know that some people really love getting into layers of ski gear and cavorting round mountains. I just don't happen to be one of them. I hate layers of clothes, and would be happy with hot weather all year round.
For people who live in, say, Sydney with its pretty pleasant climate on the whole, to say they think roaring fires and frosty weather is great, let me tell you it can well and truly pall after month on month, year on year of it.
In Christchurch, it was common to have a winter maximum of 2 degrees and several degrees below freezing overnight. And weeks on end of dismal, grey misery, not quite raining, but just dank cold which eats through to the bones despite multiple layers of clothing. You can't do anything in the garden because the ground is frozen sold. The trees are bare, and until Spring arrives there's no colour anywhere. Give me a beach and a swimming pool in Queensland any time, thank you.

 

[chops_a_must]

chops_a_must
Sorry chops but you are well and trully uniformed and you need to be taken to task. 2.2% unemployment rate. My young bloke who is doing SWL in year 12 goes out every friday as a pre apprentice and earns $75.00 per day because they is not enough tradies down here.

We have a transit population of 1.2million per year. The WA Govt invested $400 million last year in infastructure. Looking at $550million this year.

Second fastest growing region in the world

No money - if you dont own 2 boats you are considered on the lower scale.
(heaps of aged care homes so that would drag the medium down I suspect)

2 private buses that ferry mine workers to Perth Airport and back daily

46% of students attend private schools because the State schools are at a catch up stage.

Nice spin.

But you would hope so as between 50 and 75% of the students in the state system drop out in that region. 2/3rds of the students in the state system there come from welfare supported families, and upwards of 20% of the state system students come from long term welfare dependent families.

Far from uninformed, my statement was from a very recent stateline report.

Just because your son is doing well, and congrats, there are opportunities there for educated people, doesn't mean that those aboriginal families on the other side of the road are.

Far from 2 boats... Lol! As being the lower class in Mandurah. That's more likely to be relative to whether or not a family member is on welfare or has been for a long time.

You'd hope that mandurah was one of the fastest growing regions in the world, as it couldn't possibly have gotten any worse. Mandurah for a long time, in parts, has been akin to a slum.

 

[robandcoll]

You are obviously talking region then - Peel Region which includes Pinjarra?

 

[chops_a_must]

You are obviously talking region then - Peel Region which includes Pinjarra?

Nope.

Those figures are for schools in Mandurah. Some of the students obviously come from regions that would equate to 10km or so up Pinjarra road, but that is hardly a distance in country areas.

I'm not sure if the people living in Mandurah realise it, but a large population live in caravan parks around Mandurah. Quite literally Australia's trailer trash. Just look at Coodanup for example, and it's not an exception.

 

[IFocus]

Sheeez Chops you paint a pretty bleak picture. I hope the rest of Australia would take notice and stop moving in.

It’s amazing what they pay in welfare theses days. I wondered how every one could afford the two storey mansions, canal frontage, dry docks for the obligatory 50ft cruiser sitting around drinking lattes at the water front all day
LOL.


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