Hi Tyler and Shuz, Tyler, yes, we really like Seattle, it's a very genuine feeling place (if that makes sense) and as you know the natural surroundings are gobsmackingingly beautiful. It won't be easy for us to leave here - higher wages, beautiful place, laid-back people, and I love rain! But ultima...

Queen Anne, may I ask - off topic, how does the Columbia Seafirst Centre appeal to you? Ive always liked that buildings in photographs, but just wonder what its like in person? Is it as beautiful as it seems or is it just an ugly black monolith? Ive noticed a subtle, but evidently growing increase ...

Poor leadership is not specific to Adelaide and implying that it is does the city a great deal of harm, imo. Why do we have this thread here about Adelaide languishing in this desirable city survey? Because we have allowed ourselves to believe that we are uniquely inferior: that we have cornered the...

I guess different people have very different perspectives. I'm in Seattle which I have found to be a great place. Do I think it's better than Adelaide? No, I don't. Do I think Adelaide has a lot of work to do? Yes I do. I think all of us, on this forum, know Adelaide is not yet reaching its potentia...

I lol when I saw 'Buckland Park country township proposal' on the map, look how close it is to the Adelaide Metropolitan - its more like a outer suburb of Adelaide which will probably be eventually swallowed up by suburban sprawl. Crawf, you're right. It seems much more like an outer suburb than a ...

Thank you for your patient replies to my dunderhead questions :D I understand now that this connector is to be a dedicated freight line. I'll watch this project with interest. I hope as things evolve, we hear it includes plans to upgrade our passenger train system. If they are, indeed, building Buck...

Thanks very much for your reply AG, I just had a look at the S.A thread about Buckland Park (should have known there would be one :D ) I'm not sure if I'm too keen on the idea of this new "township", on a first think about it...but I will keep thinking. In my heart of hearts, I wish Adelai...

Please excuse my ignorance - I've been away from Adelaide for 18 months - but what is the new township at Buckland Park?
Thanks, Anne

Great thread!

I'm reading a tacky detective novel that I am too embarrassed to name; to be followed by a book about American urban sprawl called, A Field Guide to Sprawl, by Dolores Hayden (I'm willing to talk about that one because it makes me sound intelligent )
Anne

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The American media is inward looking, for sure. But since living here, I have met many literate, well-travelled Americans who are engaged with the world around them and who know plenty about plenty. Globalsoul, the notion that Melbourne is not known to America simply because Americans are ignorant d...

I find Melbourne fascinating. This is a city that knows how to talk the talk! I have been living in the USA for eighteen months and Melbourne has been mentioned in the media only briefly during the two Australian (tennis) Opens which have taken place since we have been here. Apart from that nothing....

classic rhetoric. This is labors first step towards negating all the good publicity that MHS achieved in the last few weeks. Expect more detailed big-spending plans to be released by labor very soon. What kind of big-spending plans do you think will be released Wayno? For years I have thought Adela...

classic rhetoric. This is labors first step towards negating all the good publicity that MHS achieved in the last few weeks. Expect more detailed big-spending plans to be released by labor very soon. What kind of big-spending plans do you think will be released Wayno? For years I have thought Adela...

Hi, I'm new - Adelaide girl living in Seattle due to hubbie's work. Are there many women on the forum? I've been reading the boards for a couple of weeks and I love to see that so many people care so much about Adelaide and SA. I don't have any particular development or engineering expertise, I just...