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Adelaide

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Adelaide is the capital of South Australia and has a population of just over a million people.
It is clean, friendly and claims to be Australia's sunniest city, it is also well located with beautiful beaches in Glenelg, plenty of parkland, some beautiful green hill country inland and also the famous Barossa Valley and McLaren Valley wine growing regions a short drive inland.
Also nearby offshore there is Kangaroo Island for some spectacular wildlife spotting.

glenelg beach suburb of adelaide
Glenelg, Adelaide's beach suburb

Adelaide is known as the festival city and is also has a thriving art scene. The Adelaide Festival Centre is South Australia's major performing arts venue and is the focal point for the biennial Adelaide Festival of the Art, three weeks of more than 2000 artists from 27 countries, drawing crowds of more than 700 000.

the old plaza hotel in adelaide
The Old Plaza Hotel

Adelaide was actually settled by decent people, and not by criminals like most cities on the east coast.
On December 31st, 1836, Colonel William Light, as surveyor-general of South Australia, selected the new city centre of Adelaide. Settlement began the next year in 1837.

It must be a good life in Adelaide, the London based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)'s survey in 2005 ranks Adelaide nr. 6 out of 130 cities surveyed worldwide. The EIU assessed the level of hardship for expatriates in the 130 cities, using 12 factors including housing, education, recreational activities, health, climate and terrorism.

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