Re: Re: More privatisation

[Rob Schaap <bantam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

G'day Tom,

> And here I was thinking how glad I am to be out of Vancouver. The    >problem with being one of the "best cities to live in" is housing     >costs go up correspondingly. Thus it becomes impossible to do the     >living that is best in the city. That is to say one could live better >in a city that is not as good to live in.

Well, Tom, if ever you get sick of the island, come to Hobart - it has a lot
of the Vancouver about it (find some pictures - from some angles, it's
uncanny), is doomed to be ignored by the silver-tailed city-assessors forever
(it's not the liveability that's the problem, it's the ruling ideas of the
epoch), is much smaller (140000), much cheaper, moves at the pace of a wombat,
has a moderately civilised Labor government, and has the world's largest ocean
between it and the slavering maw.  I pine more every day.

Cheers,
Rob.