What's going to happen to Perth when this mining boom dies in the arse in 2015?
For one the wind isn't going to die!
Oh you poor buggers!
After travelling around a fair bit, have settled in a place that is affordable (bought my first house, sub 450,000 - 3 bed, primo sea view, big property, great beach 2 mins walk away)
Awesome range of kite spots on every wind except W
One of the worlds best left hand surf breaks within 2.5 hr drive, as well as a range of beachies and river mouths within 30mins
Really great SUPing beach (estuary mouth with 150m long sand bar)
Only one fatal shark attack in the last 10 years
No poisonous spiders, no snakes
Great climate
Beer sold in 12 packs, usually for less than $20 (including craft beers)
Almost zero crime
Would tell ya where it is, but...........
Hey,
I've been in Perth for 10 years, formerly a Southern Sydney boy (loved it there). But I'd never go back. I like Sydney as a place to visit and holiday, but wouldn't ever live there again.
The congestion, pace and impersonality of the place is insane! Ethnic non-integration problems, traffic, and having to "drive forever to get away from it all".
On the flip side, amazing restaurants, cheap food, great clubs, RSL & Tradies clubs etc with subsidized drinks and food prices. You just can't go anywhere to get away from all the people.
Perth house prices just caught up to the rest of the country. I sold my little 2 bedroom cottage in Sydney and paid for a 4 bedroom brick place with a pool in '04 in a half decent suburb.
Perth is awesome if you don't try and impose your eastern state, big city ideas and expectations on it. Instead, try and blend in with what WA has to offer and it's a regular Shangri La IMHO. There is still so much freedom here. It aint for everyone, I'll grant you that, and stoked it ain't, it's already too crowded.
I started surfing here, Freedive Spearing, 4WDing, outback camping and started a business just 10 minutes from home. I drove 1.5hrs each way to my former Sydney employment.
Perth reminded me of Sydney in the 70's and early 80's. A great place to grow up as a kid. There is so much opportunity here in WA if you are prepared to get off your arse and work at it. Just don't expect it to be like everywhere else. Thank god it isn't.
Perth is my home and always will be. I'll be buried here. Love it!
DM
What the hell is wrong with telling it like it is. Why do shops cafes pubs etc rip us off....simple because they can.FFS small city miles from anywhere these douchebags have got it all worked out. It aint rocket science. I have a photo on my phone of a cualiflower in IGA for $7:49 !!!! sad i know. But the point is this place is full of knobs like dusta " nagggh dont like it leave naggggh !!!"No one complains,protests or just tells matey boy whos just poured a pint and wants to charge you $12 to feckin shove it !!!
And the rest of it ... Well its beutifull and i love it, best city beaches in the world ( belive me i know ).Proper get away from it bush (admitely you do have to drive a lot more than 3 hours and Esperance. Could just do with a decent mountin range and some better climbing.
But i am 50 and glad i spent my 20's living in the most exciting city in the world. (err....not Perth!)
This is hilarious. You lot bag all the other states/cities all the time. No one gives a rats. Most probably agree with you in part. But bag Perth/WA and watch the hissy fits start. Get over it girls!
Yeh western Sydney that's where I'm thinking about moving. Anyone been there and can let us know the good spots?
You missed my point all together. Sure Perth has some bad areas with some bad stuff going on but most of it child games compared to that part of the Australia. Then again I do feel Perth in places has a violent vibe that a lot of my eastern stater friends seem to notice.
Make good wherever you are.
The internal experience is far more important than the external. Look for external inputs to make you happy you'll be searching and not at peace until the day you die, which by the way is relatively soon for all of us.
As Buddha said find death before it finds you.
I did get it, i'm just jumping on the bandwagon and having a go at western Sydney.
Having said that, western Sydney is big and has heaps of ok suburbs. While it's not the nicest part the town there are some areas of Sydney that are worse than most areas in west Sydney IMO.
But back to Perth, so you guys got the best wind in summer, awesome beaches and the climate is great. You can make way more then a 100k a year without having finished school. That sounds half way decent to me.
The cultural and entertainment aspect is something a city develops over time, and it's largely driven by the people who are interested in it and supporting it. These sort of changes take a long time and depend on the demographic.
True but you don't have to be an economist to see how unsustainable it is to keep digging holes in the ground. While farmers are leaving the land in droves the government is pumping money into keeping this 19th century preoccupation (of mining) in full swing while smart industries and their participants leave the shores of Australia. And I don't mean unsustainable is some green big the tree hippy perspective, I mean we need to develop smarter industries NOW. we can't keep being the quarry of the world and paying unschooled bogan morons 100k plus a year, because these jobs won't be there in the very near future. We need innovation in all areas ( including mining of course) but the focus needs to have some vision of a future world where resources will be sourced easily and more cheaper from other places in the world.
We are becoming one big ass quarry, with a small percentage of cashed up idiots running around spending their money in oligopoly based shopping centres, purchasing goods made by smarter industries in other countries, while the rest of us struggle to pay for the inflationary necessities to survive. Its a sad state of affairs when only the very wealthy prosper at the expense of our kids future ( this the very basis of our so called need to keep increasing the population of Australia).
You can't eat flat screen TVs! You can drink laptop computers.
Perth is the epicentre of this absurd state of living.
Sorry guys, but mining is not going to go away any time soon. For example BHPB Iron Ore current tenements have over 200 years of life IF we hit max production rates of 450 Mega tons per year. Around 500 years at current production level. And that is without finding new reserves.
This is a very long term deal.