best weather would be around brisbane-gold coast area, although sydney's not too bad as well.. brissie if you want to go beach alot.. has near perfect weather all year (or at least the times i've been there, tho abit of rain), lots of theme parks and stuff.. sydney also have some decent beaches.. not much in terms of theme parks (and i think theres only 1 left now.. thats at the harbour somewhere) but we have everything else that no other state has.. the big olympic park venue.. 6 or so hrs drive to the ACT canberra, 12hrs drive to brissie, or 8hr drive to melbourn (three most common places ANYONE would visit) and other great places like huge shopping centers etc *hint hint*... dont know much about the rest of the country.. usualy dont get a chance to travel much.. maybe the other aussies can fill you in on that... as for best cost/living ratio i wouldn't have a clue..
although as far as tech goes here.. we're a bit behind the americans, defenatly better than the indo/philo/viet/cam area (no offence to those peps) but not as diverse as the japs or hong kong or tiwanese people although to find a good shop that sells parts very cheap but good quality may require good google and contacts skills.. and i do wonder what insanity might arise for u US guys when you start writing centre as center and color with colour among other things.....
as for computer tech people.. i think we have a good ratio to area thing happening.. with half the people i know having to do something within that industry or as a hobby.. there's a guy next door that runs an IT company so thats one of them.. the other works under contracts but with realy cool companies/big names.. i guess the reason why not much of us are here is because
a)paly too much MMORPG or other games...
b)have a company or too busy to go forums much
c)possibly a aussie version of TS floating around somewhere... (havent started looking for one.. this ones just too good atm)
Anyways.. i'm off. its 3 am and my mouth hurts from work from talking to computer illiterate customers that has too many questions....
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