The Financial Times has a very good piece on medical tourism
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/98f03b1c-203f-11dc-9eb1-000b5df10621.html
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/98f03b1c-203f-11dc-9eb1-000b5df10621.html
Quality of Living: Top 50 cities 2007
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That's a bloody shame, more or less of the 30 million plus Canadians don't seem to mind?
And why do Australians typically assume that cold is bad? Wow no beach, HAVE A CRY. Canadians enjoy the some of the best skiing and winter fashion in the world.
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Simply a matter of each to his own, vishalt. I was expressing my personal preference for warm weather. Having spent most of my life in the cold of NZ's South Island I can tell you the novelty wore off a very long time ago.
I happen to hate snow and love swimming. Enjoy your cold.
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Yeah but you specifically assume in your posts that Canadians can't possibly be as happy as Australians because we generally have warmer weather. You don't seem to be able to conceive that maybe weather was accounted for and that some, possibly a lot of people enjoy the cold/snow.
Enjoy my cold? Once again you simply assume, I enjoy all types of weather and I wish we had alternated instead of a roasting.
Oh and for your info they have nude beaches down near Toronto, just to let you know...
Modern movers heading downtown, or up north
Karen Kissane | The Age | November 12, 2007
MORE than 7000 people moved to the inner city in the year to June 2006, which means the "downtown" residential area is growing as fast as some of Melbourne's booming outer suburbs, according to a report released today.
The report also said Melbourne is attracting twice the population growth of Sydney, and that most of the fastest-growing towns in Australia are on the Queensland coast.
KPMG demographer Bernard Salt compiled the Population Growth Report 2007 from data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in October and from the US and New Zealand.
Mr Salt told The Age that the downtown boom is of a similar size in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney, showing that the idea of inner-city living is now established in the Australian psyche as a mainstream lifestyle choice.
"There is no greater measure of how Australian values have shifted in a single generation," he said. "In the funkiest, hippest and most central parts of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, the number of residents moving in each year now tops 7000, 6800 and 6300 respectively."
Mr Salt assessed downtown growth by looking at population figures within a five-kilometre radius of the centre of each city. He reported that in Melbourne, the figure of 7058 city arrivals was higher than the number of people moving to any one of the three fastest-growing outer municipalities (Casey, Melton and Wyndham).
Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth are growing at close to record rates, fuelled by high levels of overseas migration, strong interstate migration and high birth rates. Sydney has an annual growth rate of less than 1 per cent, with some municipalities suffering ”” or enjoying ”” population falls.
Melbourne attracted 62,306 people compared with Sydney's 36,823. Mr Salt attributes this difference to higher housing prices in Sydney, where a three-bedroom brick veneer home in an outer suburb costs an average of $399,000 compared with $260,000 in Melbourne.
Mr Salt found the population in Melbourne's middle suburbs in municipalities such as Whitehorse and Monash is holding up better than it did a decade ago because generation Y adult children are continuing to live with their parents.
But he warned that these suburbs might become a "widow-world" by 2020, as the adult children will finally have left home, and with partners in elderly baby-boomer couples beginning to die. He predicts this will leave many older singles, mainly women, who will be socially isolated, anxious about their physical security and in need of more health services.
Mr Salt says baby-boomer parents who boast of adult children living overseas ”” parents for whom the distance they can "catapult" their children is a point of pride ”” might end up particularly lonely if those children have grandchildren overseas.
The Gold Coast was Australia's fastest-growing locale and could be the nation's fifth-largest city by the end of the century, he predicts. Seven of the 10 fastest-growing towns are on the Queensland coast.
http://kpmg.com.au
Karen Kissane | The Age | November 12, 2007
MORE than 7000 people moved to the inner city in the year to June 2006, which means the "downtown" residential area is growing as fast as some of Melbourne's booming outer suburbs, according to a report released today.
The report also said Melbourne is attracting twice the population growth of Sydney, and that most of the fastest-growing towns in Australia are on the Queensland coast.
KPMG demographer Bernard Salt compiled the Population Growth Report 2007 from data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in October and from the US and New Zealand.
Mr Salt told The Age that the downtown boom is of a similar size in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney, showing that the idea of inner-city living is now established in the Australian psyche as a mainstream lifestyle choice.
"There is no greater measure of how Australian values have shifted in a single generation," he said. "In the funkiest, hippest and most central parts of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, the number of residents moving in each year now tops 7000, 6800 and 6300 respectively."
Mr Salt assessed downtown growth by looking at population figures within a five-kilometre radius of the centre of each city. He reported that in Melbourne, the figure of 7058 city arrivals was higher than the number of people moving to any one of the three fastest-growing outer municipalities (Casey, Melton and Wyndham).
Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth are growing at close to record rates, fuelled by high levels of overseas migration, strong interstate migration and high birth rates. Sydney has an annual growth rate of less than 1 per cent, with some municipalities suffering ”” or enjoying ”” population falls.
Melbourne attracted 62,306 people compared with Sydney's 36,823. Mr Salt attributes this difference to higher housing prices in Sydney, where a three-bedroom brick veneer home in an outer suburb costs an average of $399,000 compared with $260,000 in Melbourne.
Mr Salt found the population in Melbourne's middle suburbs in municipalities such as Whitehorse and Monash is holding up better than it did a decade ago because generation Y adult children are continuing to live with their parents.
But he warned that these suburbs might become a "widow-world" by 2020, as the adult children will finally have left home, and with partners in elderly baby-boomer couples beginning to die. He predicts this will leave many older singles, mainly women, who will be socially isolated, anxious about their physical security and in need of more health services.
Mr Salt says baby-boomer parents who boast of adult children living overseas ”” parents for whom the distance they can "catapult" their children is a point of pride ”” might end up particularly lonely if those children have grandchildren overseas.
The Gold Coast was Australia's fastest-growing locale and could be the nation's fifth-largest city by the end of the century, he predicts. Seven of the 10 fastest-growing towns are on the Queensland coast.
http://kpmg.com.au
2007/2008 Human Development Index(Rank): OZ is bronze medal !
http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/hdr_20072008_en_indicator_tables.pdf
http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/hdr_20072008_en_indicator_tables.pdf
OZ is TOP TEN => http://www.doingbusiness.org/economyrankings/
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I notice Sydney is at #9 in this week- straight away you've got an argument with Melbourne for a starter.
one man's heaven is another man's hell m8; one man's city is another man's jail; etc
I recall some larrikin (mischievously so) researcher who was asked to comment on his finding that Sydney had a slightly higher suicide rate than Melbourne. He replied "ahh but that assumes that Melbourne people are alive in the first place". Personally as an arms-length ex-Queenslander I found that politically incorrect in the extreme.
http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/pubs/bulletin10/bull10-3.html
Dashed lines indicate 95% confidence limits - now where have I heard that before
I notice Sydney is at #9 in this week- straight away you've got an argument with Melbourne for a starter.
one man's heaven is another man's hell m8; one man's city is another man's jail; etc
I recall some larrikin (mischievously so) researcher who was asked to comment on his finding that Sydney had a slightly higher suicide rate than Melbourne. He replied "ahh but that assumes that Melbourne people are alive in the first place". Personally as an arms-length ex-Queenslander I found that politically incorrect in the extreme.
http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/pubs/bulletin10/bull10-3.html
Dashed lines indicate 95% confidence limits - now where have I heard that before
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I also recall them saying that there's a rule of thumb out there - that where murders are lower, there too suicides are higher.
I guess that translates as ...
you either get "I'm OK - You're not OK" (=murderers)
or you get "I'm not OK - you're OK" (=suicides) (?)
http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/ti52.pdf
Chart shows suicides per 100,000 for 1990
I guess that translates as ...
you either get "I'm OK - You're not OK" (=murderers)
or you get "I'm not OK - you're OK" (=suicides) (?)
http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/ti52.pdf
Chart shows suicides per 100,000 for 1990
