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[Dave W]

Australia's single city women forced to look for love in the country

[ack1961]

Just my luck...I move out of Alice Springs and now they're going to bus single women there.  Great.
Why couldn't they have done this 20 years ago?

[Aussie Mark]

What the article doesn't mention is the actual reason for the gender imbalance in the cities - the continuing resources boom in this country has drawn huge numbers of men to mining towns to earn large incomes.

[uwe]

Canned Heat were prophetic then!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPDKmPjIDQo&feature=related

[Freuds_Cat]

What the article doesn't mention is the actual reason for the gender imbalance in the cities - the continuing resources boom in this country has drawn huge numbers of men to mining towns to earn large incomes.

Mark is right and so is this comment from that article. Double whammy.

"Bernard Salt, demographer and author of Man Drought, said the programme and the tours were so successful because over the past four decades young women had fled Australia's rural towns and communities. While women in the 1960s would marry a local man after finishing school, they now head off to the city in search of work, leaving the men behind, he said. As soon as that 18 year old girl leaves she upsets the gender balance in the town, because there are not enough marriageable women, and she also upsets the gender balance in Sydney because there is an oversupply of women in the inner city suburbs. "

[TBird1958]

Priscilla................Queen of the desert 

[SKATE RAT]

i've always wanted to see Australia. lots of chicks,good beer, good surf and GOD DAMN RADIO BIRDMAN!!!!!!

[Freuds_Cat]

i've always wanted to see Australia. lots of chicks,good beer, good surf and GOD DAMN RADIO BIRDMAN!!!!!!

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You'll be right as long as you stick to the inner suburban areas of the cities. Oh, and you forgot about Frenzal Rhomb 

[SKATE RAT]

eh, not into 'em.