QLD voted best state to live in!

Home is where the heart is

Been in Qld for about 15 years, but still have blue running through my veins.
Try living in the far north in summer!!! it takes a long while to adapt.

Lived in Victoria all my life & have no regrets, but I must admit that I could easily live in the NT.

John

Left metropolitan Mossman FNQ back in 1971 to do a stint in the Navy...now even after 32 years in uniform and a further 4 as a civvie working for Navy...I would move back to Mossman tomorrow. Unfortunately I can't convince the Missus - too hot for her in the summer. We will, however, be spending May to Sep up that way most years once we retire (3 years and counting).

Nah!!, NSW is the one, over taxed, over priced, over stressed, overpopulated,

To hot, to cold, Just Love it. Will never move. Funny thing is those who venture out to find the greener grass, seem to return within 5yrs.

Cheers Axle.

Been here since 1973,went back to NSW after 5 yrs came back in 79.Qld been good to me so i'm staying put at the moment.
Done 4wk trip to Tassie at Xmas last & i could easily move down the but on to the West coast for the Remoteness,like all of it though.
Go Queenslaner wed week.Lol :)
Cheers Bob.

And you don't have stupid Daylight saving, GWN TV in run a Poll for the country section of the wheat belt last night, 89% voted NO
Now I see where the Clowns are going for 6 months, bloody idiots.

Doug

Born and bred in Cairns , anywhere south of the Barron river is to far south for me , been up and down the east coast of Qld with trucks ,, can't stand the big smokes of Sydney and Melbourne ,, but can't wait to see the rest of our country ,, guess the state doesn't matter ,, its Australia ,, the best country !!

Hi tvl

As a born and bred Queenslander for 46 yrs and since being in S.A. for almost 2 years this state runs a pretty close second to Qld.
I do hope to make my way back to Qld with Muddy one day. So if things that I have no control over sees me stay here in S.A. for the rest of my life then I will truly will have found my stay here just as nice as my previous life in Qld.

As for Willem's advice, he hit it right on the head.........home truly is where the heart is, regardless of where you think you might want to be.

Cya
:)

Just confirming what everyones always known, why would anyone want to live anywhere else?

A few gripes though:
I just wanna put a big sign up on the borders, go home - no vacancies. Where I live at Shorncliffe on Brisbanes northern bayside almost every property is of the 46 perches minimum to a max of almost an acre. With all the southern money coming up the number of grand big blocks being split up is disgusting. Having sold the family two-bedroom unit down south for a half million and then coming up here with that they buy a half hectare almost on the waterfront, split the block, move in a second house then sell both for a tidy profit leaving the locals to put up with the unwanted new arrivals. The council is hardly helping by 'tourist-fying' the place so on the weekends almost all of the cliff top is impassable to locals. Sure they dont pay the rates here......

There are over 100 boats at the ramp each weekend with most people coming from the southern suburbs to launch into moreton bay to destroy the local fishing grounds. This ramp was built by the local fishing club over 60 years ago and I helped maintain it as part of the club till the BCC took it over in 1997. Last WEDNESDAY (does anyone work anymore???) I had to wait almost 25 minutes for the back log of idiots to finish launching and recovering, the scary thing is that this is a 4-lane ramp, the amount of traffic is disgraceful.

I am simply fed up with being a prisioner in my own suburb on weekends. Not that old Shorny has the prestige of places such as Noosa but one thing we do have in common is the mutual hatred of tourists, and with good reason. The first candidate to put a bloody great sign on the roads in saying "Local Traffic only beyond this point" would be elected in a landslide.

Feel so much better for getting that off my chest, hope everyone else out there is ahving a good day :)

Ben

i grew up in a small town in qld that is now darwin in the 40s,lived in townsville,cairns and been in nsw for over 10 years.willam is spot on where the heart is -mines still up there.

I guess its only fair to compare the states youve lived in
- For me it SA and WA
now it depends on what meausure you put. Is it
- nice places to travel
- job oportunities
- affordability
- services
etc etc etc

Well for meI used to enjoy the Eyre Penninsula of WA but the rest the only thing taking me back there is family. As a young person with only personal skills I found there was no chance of getting ahead in SA and I bless the day I packed everything into a $2000 dollar camper van and got out
- My freinds werent so lucky

I was born in Sydney spent 10 years in Hazelbrook (Blue Mnt), then 32 years in Darwin.

I moved to Jabiru last year, I'm about to lease a block of land in Jabiru and put a house on it, the lease will be 99 years and I can't see myself moving I now feel at home.

Cheers Steve.