Not really that good Hanrahan, but I guess if you've grown up there, it's where you call home, they tell you the jobs and schools are good etc, but you spend so much of your day sitting cars starting and stopping behind the person in front of you, it hardly seems worth it.
I have often thought having a job that pays the same in the city or the country and living in the country/coastal town would be great. Like teaching or nursing etc.
A mate and his wife made this decision and headed up to port macquarie a few years ago, he's trying to get teaching work after training as a teacher, and his wife is a teacher. He is still having trouble landing a teaching job after many years, and had to compete with 50 people for a night stacking job at coles, which he got. He then upgraded to a job at a bottle shop where he is now, and doing some relief teaching. He used to be an advertising exec in sydney. This is just one example of course.
I suppose if you grew up there you may have a better chance of establishing yourself into a good job or trade early on.
If house prices fail to keep climbing, i'd say quite a few cityfolk, in particular baby boomers, may opt out of the place, take the loot and head for the sea/tree change.
