Where to Live in Australia?

If you are one of those people who are hoping to make 2010 the year you move to Australia, where are you going to live when you get here?

There are over 100 large urban centres to choose from, these are towns and cities and localities with a population in excess of 10,000 people. Then there are hundreds, possibly more than 1000, small towns with far fewer people and in some cases, just a few people.

But most people when they move to Australia choose one of the major cities. These would be Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Hobart and Darwin.

………Darwin!

I’m not sure how many people emigrate to Australia and move directly to Darwin, but I’m sure some do. I just had new neighbours move in behind my house who originally came from the north of England, in fact they still have strong northern accents. But they have moved down here to Brisbane from Darwin.

I’m not sure how long they lived in Darwin or what they thought of it, but in time I will find out. Until then, I can only guess what you’d have to get used to to live in Darwin.

• Very very hot weather.
• Mosquitoes the size of golf balls.
• Snakes and lots of them.
• Crocodiles, of course.
• Unswimmable seas full of killers.
• Torrential rains during the wet season.

And, today I find out about this……….

Darwin is ‘world’s broken jaw capital’

How about that? After all my posts on this blog arguing that Australia’s problems with alcohol related street violence on no more than moderate, I get “punched in the face” with this one.

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According to the statistics, of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, you are more likely to get your jaw busted outside one of the Darwin ones.

“Royal Darwin Hospital treats 350 broken jaws a year, putting the rate at 17 per 10,000 population, which is well above anywhere else in the world,” said oral and maxillofacial surgeon Mahiban Thomas in an article on NT News. He went on to say “The injuries are mostly sustained outside pubs and clubs in the city centre Thursday and Friday nights.”

Hmmmm. Saturday night may be the best time to go for a quiet drink them.

I suppose there is an outside chance that Darwin doesn’t really have any worse an alcohol related street violence problem than anywhere else, but perhaps it is simply the home of a lot of people who have a very good punch.

But it does show that if you are thinking of moving to Australia, a bit of research before you choose where to live may well be worth the effort. Which leads me to my special announcement.

My special announcement.

I have been very busy lately working behind-the-scenes on my membership site which is going to be all about where to live in Australia. It is still not quite ready to open but the time for that will be very soon. (Update: ahem, yeah, right!)

The structure for the site is three quarters of the way there and all that remains is for me to complete the final quarter and then set it all to “live”. In order to speed that up I am going to be switching from five posts a week down to 3 to give me a little more time to concentrate on my tasks.

So for now I will be posting on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays instead of Monday through Friday. Once I am all straight, I hope I may be able to return to 5 posts a week.

The membership area is taking longer than I expected but my ambitions for it are now far greater than when I initially had the idea. I intend to cover every single town in Australia. I have calculated I will be able to complete this task by the time I am 93 years of age……. unless I get help!

Do you live in Australia?

If you do, you can own your town on BobinOz! All you need is a video camera and a few hours of spare time and you’d be on your way owning some potentially valuable Internet real estate. If you are interested, I’d love to hear from you. Please contact me for full details.

But if you are one of those people who are hoping to make 2010 the year you move to Australia, I hope your dreams come true. If I can help in any way, please just Ask Bob.

Whatever you do, stay tuned, because you will learn a thing or two about where to live in Australia.

Staying tuned.

If you have already signed up for a free copy of my ebook “20 Reasons Why YOU Should Move to Australia”, then you are already on my mailing list. If you haven’t already signed up, perhaps you’d like to do so now.

You’ll get a free ebook, and from now on, each and every Friday, I will send an update to everyone on my list about all things BobinOz and life in Australia. I use the world’s number one email delivery system and if you ever decide you no longer want to receive any of my emails you can simply unsubscribe.

And I’d be gone!

Just like this….

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