Our population is moving in the wrong direction

The Advertiser: Our population is moving in the wrong direction :

"The state had the second largest net population loss in 2003-04 - 3200 people - behind New South Wales' creep towards Queensland, according to an ABS report released yesterday. The exodus was more than double the net loss of 1500 people the previous year and almost half of our interstate movers were in the 20-34 age group."

It would appear Australia is moving to Queensland because of the climate. The Queensland figures have blown out and put a massive strain on the resources of Brisbane and Toowoomba. When they run out of water in the eastern states, we may see them back. They are talking about the 20-34 age group. The kids who have everything and some of them with a misplaced sense of self importance. The play not work people. It's a trend all over the world for people in this age group to be itinerant. The "adultescents". They are still experimenting. A lot of them are still studying or study and then work and then travel. They have a different lifestyle and want different things. Adlelaide will attract them back. This is also the age group of mobile phone drivers, speedsters and people who drive into trees. I think this article needs to be fleshed out. That age group has no ties. They have no reason to stay put and they are people who know there is a big word out there. Some are overseas as we have a lot of people of 20-34 over here from other countries. It has less to do with SA than bright lights and big cities for younger people. Shiney! The people who have families here want to be here because they think it is a good place for families. Older people enjoy an unhurried pleasant life and busy professionals have everything they need and are smack bang where they can get to any other city easily. What we lack are the international connections. I get so fed up hauling over to Sydney so I can travel elsewhere and it adds so much extra time onto a trip. People who come to Adelaide like it because you can do as you wish and pursue your dreams and live unencumbered. It's not a place which diverts and distracts but it has what you want when you want it. But we have lost a number of jobs here and our universities have lost their former prestige. Why would you study at low level universities and SA unis used to be right at the top of the pile. We need to smarten up!! A lot of the "young" jobs are interstate. But I have recently read an article about France being worried about its young ones leaving the country and going elsewhere. It's not just our problem and maybe it's not even a problem. The young need to get out there and see their world. They can only be the better for it.