Thread: A question for you Queenslanders

Have you seen the latest billboard promoting Maryborough?
(rhetorical)

two REALLY old grannys in their dressing gowns
on their favourite chairs with the caption--

"If you stay around long enough-
you come back into fashion"




and whats WRONG with flairs???

Originally Posted by crump

Rockys a craphole and getting worse, crime etc.. Townsville is getting better, but you have still picked two of the crappiest towns/cities in QLD, besides Brisbane of course, IMO.

Hmmm... i haven't read the whole thing, but you do know Rocky is a complete and utter INFERNO in summer? I've been there a few times, and each time it has re-defined my understanding of hot. Last time it nearly killed my dog with heat exhaustion, and we had the AC on I'm telling you .... a defender A/C is NOT Rocky spec.

The only other thing I can add is apparently housing in townsville is really expensive

Originally Posted by Stevo_62

G'day

Any of you guys or gals ever worked or work for Ergon Energy? I'm thinking of a change of scenery.

All the utlities are recruiting, ergon are doing a big push but powerlink and CS Energy are also looking for people, but if you have HV and transmission experience there is also plenty of mine work with lots of options for FIFO from civilised locations or mine town living which gives you a lot of choice.

Townsville is big these days, the Armys move north helped alot and housing boomed, lots of new estates.

Rocky is Rocky, depends on what you like and are after, everyone is different, but I was up there last month and it seems to be going ahead now in leaps and bounds.

Originally Posted by scrambler

What's that? Being accused of being locked in a time warp by a resident of ALSTONVILLE? Isn't the Age of Aquarius over yet? Don't you need to check whether your mud brick's dissolved in the rain?

;-)

Just envious, really. Love your neck of the woods GQ.

And the rain washed the tie dye out of his kaftan

Toowoomba is bloody freezing half the year and can be bloody hot, sometimes in the same day. Official temperature last year whilst I was at the swap meet was 41.2. Rocky is bloody hot, so is Townsville. Townsville is not so much a country dump anymore, more a small city. Rocky is improving but seems to have missed boom times. Of the three, I would choose to live on the coast near Rocky, say Yeppoon or near. Bundaberg and Maryborough are better choices.

i'm from rocky, well a little west at a place called gracemere

i couldn't wait to get out of the joint when i was 16/17yo

it is damn hot in summer, i was to move back i live on the coast at yeppoon or emu park, at least you get the sea breeze when its about and its 1/2 drive to rocky

a mate of mine was a consultant to ergon for a while, he was working out of brisbane but reckon ergon was a good employer

i will be in rocky for xmas 07, not looking forward to it

can just see Quiggers lying on his back (in his tie dye kaftan) in the rain saying
"wow man,, look at the rainbow!"

It's interesting to watch, from my mud hut, a myth being created, as I sit here in my kaftan... and consider the weather and the now failed clothes dryer... and the swathe of political advertising being booked into my news paper.

(anyone know about electronically controlled dryers?)


The answer to this initial question is to move as close as possible to where the work is - given 12 hour shifts are not abnormal in those industries. Commuting is a waste of time.



Cheers, GQ