Woz moves to Oz Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has become a permanent resident of Australia. “Woz” has lived in Australia on and off for a few years now and recently picked up a gig as an adjunct professor at Sydney's University of Technology. According to The Australian Financial Review he's now taken the plunge and moved down under to …
Happy to leave. No work, foul damp climate inbetween droughts on east coast, sacred swamps and dull scrub soaked in drizzle and rain on west coast. Full of old crap cramped buildings. At least Hobart still looks like Hobart, not another dreary glass box clone of every city elsewhere. Only place in Oz where one gets claustrophobia, in the open. Narrowness of valleys only matched by narrowness of minds. Booze and food better on mainland if one is not into whiskey. Bass Strait Islands excepted. Ah, cheeses made with good milk and care. I suppose Woz will join the hordes of economically displaced Sydneysiders looking for a place you can afford to live without being a banking or real estate thug or drug lord.
Tasmania is no longer the Apple Island – used to be before the UK joined the EU. Since then Britons, if they wish to keep their doctors away, are forced to purchase European sourced (overpriced and inferior quality) fruit. Apple graveyards are still abundant in Tassie, a very sad picture indeed.
<<"Has beaches to die for" that describes most of Australia namely there are a lot of thing in the water that want to kill you. Then again staying on dry land is more dangerous.>>
Why is it that in any discussion even vaguely related to Australia, it's only a matter of minutes before some illiterate Skip starts talking about the dangerous wildlife there? Is that all there is to that miserable desert island?
Apart from the "massive prawns"?
>Is that all there is to that miserable desert island?
Well, on the way from Adelaide to Melbourne last week there was a town with the following listed on its brown tourist information/points of interest road sign:
"Land Rover on a Pole"
Exciting stuff indeed! I never did find the poor Eastern European, though I did take a picture of the sign.
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