Thursday, Jul 28, 2005 at 17:49
Brick,
My mum has lived in
Exmouth for the past 8 years and reckons its the best place in the world.If you are a drinker and a fisherman you will love it.
My brother also lived there for some time (as he was
young when he went up with mum) and got himself into a lot of trouble with the law.As with most country towns there is little for the teenagers to do.It does have a primary school,daycare centre,high school and a tafe(with limited subjects) a hospital etc. The town is mainly geared for tourism so alot of the jobs would be tourism based.
The rent is expensive as is the fuel and especially the food.Town centre has the basics like 2 shops(foodland and a convinience store) jeweller,baker,chemist,newsagent(which is also a toy store),
laundromat,hairdresser and a couple of spec shops...and of course the
shop like king kong(discount cheapy stuff)
AS for other employment I am unsure as mum only works part time as a cleaner at the sea breeze resort which is on the old naval base....This is pretty much deserted(the base) and runs with a skeleton staff both defense personal and locals.
My brother found fulltime work as a deckhand then he went "bush" as a station hand but as I said above he got into too much trouble when he returned to the town.He is now 22yrs and living back here in
Perth.
I have just come back from a holiday from
exmouth(suprised my mum for her 50th b'day) and I personally didnt like the townsfolk... too rude or too nosey or too drunk! I found them very clicky but heh that is my opinion only.
Like other advise given go for a visit first and see what you think.Go to the truscott(the local RSL club) to get a good mix of the locals.Friday nights at the yaught club were also good value but you need to get a member to
sign you in.The Pot Shot Hotel was good for a laugh on Thursday night too!
One final bit my kids were pretty bored up there(they are 9 yrs and 5 yrs) and we were only there for a week!!
Just visit first thats all I can suggest!
thats my 2 cents!!
CHEERS
katrina
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