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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (3488)	1/17/2006 4:54:28 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Respond to of 217979

I prefer Perth or Sydney. Perth is much like California 30 years ago - easy, beautiful, comfortable, city and country. Every time I'm there, it has spread another few miles north up the coast. I think Sydney is just ideal - if you can afford to live where you prefer, which many cannot. As I'm sure you know, travel by car is not easy, being more urban, so its more difficult if you find yourself living in the wrong place. The hugely unpopular toll tunnels are a delight though. I think Melbourne is a lot like Los Angeles where I live. (After all, its a city arguably built around an auto race track.) I think Melbourne lacks the overall beauty of Sydney, but Melbourne offers more diverse nearby opportunities available primarily by automobile, like: Daylesford and Ballarat in the bush; mountain towns like Olinda (or the incredibly long drive to Threadbo); to beach settings like Sorrento, Queenscliff, The Prom, The Great Ocean Road, even the slightly cheesy town of Lorne. Easy living, especially with the new toll roads which make the road to the airport and beyond less hellish, although commute time traffic south to Geelong is still bad. Auckland does have far better weather than Wellington, but I have always been confounded in finding a way to plug into the various communities there. Ponsonby and similar venues lose appeal before the first evening is half over. I'm sure I'd find more if I lived there - maybe it grows on you. If I lived in Auckland, I'd be tempted to choose a home in Devonport, which is admittedly even more isolated and quiet. The homes on the hills of the punchbowl overlooking the city also seem quite nice and do have more of a neighborhood feeling. This may reflect my lifelong preference for the city life and ambivalence about bucolic settings, after a childhood growing up in the redwoods and orchards of Northern California. Beautiful yes, but after a certain age I wanted more civilization - and better weather. .