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Old 17th Jan 2008, 10:28
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Tarq57
 
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Define "reasonable".

Climate can be crap.Total crap. Can also be great. Averages out to be something between the two. (think gaseous.)
Been to many places where the climate is heaps better. The only place I would rather live than right here is Queensland, Australia. And the employment prospects don't sound so inviting.

Salary. Nah. In real terms, been falling since the late eighties. No sign of levelling off. In my neck of the woods, the government considers you to be in the top salary bracket about 30-40K short of what you need to actually purchase a house and pay it off without mortgaging your grandchildren.In that top bracket, the tax rate is 39%. Still, at my age, with a slight head start, I'm doing OK. Not about to buy the new lounge suite, but, hey, who needs it?
For a family man or woman, starting off,(or even 1/3 way there) with 2+ kids needing education etc, fairly careful budgeting would be required, methinks.
We are being taxed as though we live in a socialist country, but without many of the free healthcare/education/other "perks" normally provided by such a society.

Management. Seen worse.(Really.) I've not worked many other places/jobs.(2) Some of the stories I hear and read about other places have fair put me right off, I can tell you.
That's only a small part of the reason I'm still here, though.
There are levels of good or even very good, let down at the usual waypoint by the not so good. Unfortunately, the "not so good" tends to be a filter on whatever good can happen, thus the leveler. This seems to be the case in all current "best business practice".

Lifestyle. Call me naive, but a place is what you make of it. Unless, because of politics, religion, or financial/personal constraint, you can't.
There are not so many of these constraints, here, currently. It's still a great place to live.

There have been other similar threads on pprune.

Best depends on what you are looking for, and why.
So, what are you looking for, and why?
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