Ah yeah, cool!
I've been to Iron Knob. My wife's uncle used to work there, in mining. He was ex-Roxby Downs, in fact him and his wife went to Roxby when the road there was still dirt! He also worked at Peculiar Knob and now works in Whyalla itself. I spend a bit of time around Whyalla because Faith's uncle and Aunt live there, a place to the west called Cowleds Landing. They live off-grid. It's cool.
I'm with you, I wouldn't miss Sydney either. My sister lives there and it's ok for a short visit, otherwise it doesn't suit me at all.
Good to meet a fellow Aussie, and one that knows where Iron Knob is...Double bonus!
I did about two years in Iron Knob and to tell you the truth didn't leave the town only for one time when we drove into Whyalla to go and see a Jimmy Barns concert and that was awesome so i didn't really get to see much of South Australia i was on a mission of making and saving money to go back to Sydney to start my own mechanical business which i did after doing another 2 years of underground mining in Tasmania a for EZ Roseberry mining company also doing diesel mechanic but underground on the smaller trucks and machinery that was a real buzz working underground.
Your own mechanical workshop seems like a good reason to have the focus required to do what you did. I'm glad it worked out.
Now you're overseas. Your own business sill, or did something else take you there?
Yep run my own mechanical shop for 20 years then turned it over to my son and i came to join a friend who was doing real estate in Thailand and i started doing mainly the photography work for him and now i am doing sales and rentals with him i had , had enough of been a grease monkey as they say 😅
That's a bit of a turn around for you, sounds like it's working out though. Well done, keep it up.
Was getting to old to be pulling out motors and gearboxes out of cars needed a easier life and found it here and loving it 🙂 👍
I'be been in property for 20 years myself, a massive property group. I'm a licensed Land Agent too, owned my own development company and all. I'm still in the role but at executive level now. I'd rather be camping, but still have to work unfortunately. Lol.
You did go all the way with it but it's a very tough market at the moment no one renting or buying over here with no tourist in the country the market has dropped over 90% only the rich are snapping up all the bargains and i think it would be like this all around the world at the moment i would say a couple more years before it gets back to normal.
At the moment for example in Pattaya on Jomtien beach which is like the Gold Coast QLD you can by a beach view 2 bedroom apartment across the road from the beach fully furnished top of the line accessories for about 120k to 150k AUS Dollars and one bedroom from 50k to 80k AUS Dollars many bargains going on right now but no buyers 😨