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"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote:

Only if you want a decent conversation with people. My biggest problem when
in Sydney is finding someone I can be bothered talking to. I have trouble
finding Sydney people who actually 'do' things - busy, busy, busy all the
ttime but not actually 'doing' anything other than what I would put into the
category of 'socialising' and 'having fun'. There is only so much that can
be meaningfully said about those activites before bordom sets in.

I've met them too, but I must say that none of them are librarians! Do you
have relatives in banking or finance or something? They tend not to want to
talk shop, for some reason... My friends tend to be in "Doing" professions
like teaching and engineering.

The only thing that keeps me in S is money, or lack of it,

Yeah. I can understand that, having been a wage slave for years. But then
in the country it is surprising how little some people live on very happily
and very successfully.

Well, in our case it's the prospect of ageing relatives (my Dad is still
independent, but he turned 88 last week) and that my hubby will only ever be
employed in either Sydney or Bleak City, and he'll never stop being a
programmer -- it's his vocation, and not one that can be fulfilled outside of
a major city.

But we've always known these things, and that's why I have a large block (by
Sydney standards, and given our other need for being less than half an hour
from the city). It was one of the essential criteria for our house.

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Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
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